The scholars hear out his story, but when he lights the lightbulb, they become terrified and huddle against the walls, trembling together. Equality stops their murmurs by telling them he has brought them the greatest gift ever presented to mankind, and they listen to him while he tells them the story of the invention of the lightbulb, the tunnel, and his incarceration in the Palace of Corrective Detention. The scholars are angry and scared that a street sweeper should have interrupted their meeting. He addresses them in a loud voice and in greeting.Ĭollective, the oldest and wisest of the scholars, asks Equality who he is, and Equality gives him his name and tells him he is a street sweeper. As he enters, the scholars turn to him, but they do not know what to think. The shapeless forms of the scholars are huddled around a long table. The first thing he notices is the sky shining in the windows and a painting on the wall, depicting the twenty men who invented the candle. He recounts the events of the day: he is able to walk right into the meeting of the World Council of Scholars because there are no guards to stop him. He feels that he has aged a lifetime in this day. Equality writes from the forest to which he has fled that he has abandoned hope and believes he will sleep on the grass for a few days until the beasts come to eat his body.
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