{"id":476,"date":"2017-04-19T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agoodhurt.com\/monology\/?p=476"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:32:00","slug":"a-glorious-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agoodhurt.com\/monology\/a-glorious-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"A GLORIOUS FAILURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Glorious Failure (from Monology)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/213931999?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>[A man in his twenties, he has a preppy look. Very eloquent and passionate, he talks with his hands]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Julian Pedrales was a Spanish architect, back in the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>The son of a peasant, he was destined to follow his father\u2019s destiny\u2026 if it weren\u2019t because his drawing skills convinced some local officials to patron him.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing his studies at the Academy, he became an apprentice, then an assistant to a famous architect&#8230; whose work Julian would finish without getting credited for it.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by his meager accomplishments, you\u2019d think he wasn\u2019t very ambitious. But that\u2019s not true. He was\u2026 to a fault.<\/p>\n<p>He was obsessed with building a massive cathedral, one with the biggest nave and the tallest steeple in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>For over thirty years, he used his own money to travel to every court, to hustle for the favor of nobles and churchmen\u2026<br \/>\nUnfortunately, the enormity of his project \u2013so expensive, so technically challenging\u2013 discouraged anyone but Julian to attempt it.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of his life, he retired to a small patch of land near his hometown. He built himself a house there, nothing too fancy\u2026<br \/>\nHe also built a small chapel on a hill nearby. It barely took him three months to complete it.<\/p>\n<p>I visited the chapel years ago. It was already getting dark when I reached it. The fa\u00e7ade was unassuming but beautiful in its simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise, there were some lit candles inside, the light reflecting on the stone walls, making it look like a shiny womb, warm and inviting.<\/p>\n<p>I walked inside\u2026 sat on a bench. The place was tiny; the walls, bared\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I felt closer to god. And I\u2019m not religious\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There, I realized that, occasionally, people triumph despite their own ambitions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Are you an actor or director interested in using this monologue? Contact us in ABOUT MONOLOGY!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Copyright Abel Gonzalez 2017<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[A man in his twenties, he has a preppy look. Very eloquent and passionate, he talks with his hands] Julian Pedrales was a Spanish architect, back in the eighteenth century. 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