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posted by LauraB 3:28 PM
And now for something completely different.
The Scene: Contemporary Groovytown Central, USA.
Two hipsters, who recently started dating, share a passion for obscure and expensive records. Hipster A, ("Boy") lends his most treasured slabs of media to Hipster B ("NotBoy.") NotBoy recognizes that this is an expression of trust within their blossoming relationship, and makes a capriciously cruel decision to abuse that trust for fleeting disport.
Boy, unlocking the front door: Hey, how'd you like those records?
NotBoy: Oh, they were really cool! But um... (looking sheepish and apologetic.)
Boy: [encouragingly] Yes?
NotBoy Um, well, I've got some bad news.
Boy: uh-oh
NotBoy: Well, see the thing is, I was just returning them today.
Boy: [trying to hide is frisson of relief] Great!
NotBoy: Well, but you see, I was a little tipsy on the subway, and your CD's were in a bag on the seat next to me, and, well, I was just a little bit tipsy, as I mentioned, and I just sort of spaced when I walked out the door of the train.
Boy: What are you trying to say to me?
NotBoy: Well you see, I'm just so sorry for this: I just left all 45 of your favorite CD's on the Queensbound F train. Can I use your phone to call the Transit Authority so I can get them back?
Boy [helplessly] Sweet holy crap.
NotBoy: I'm so sorry, Boy.
Boy: ...
Boy: [with superhuman forbearance] That's okay, NotBoy. It's cool.
They sit for a bit.
NotBoy: Hey, Boy? Look! [opening her other bag.] I got all your records right here!
Boy: [looking up]
NotBoy: I was just joking! I wouldn't leave your CDs on the subway! They're far too good for that.
Boy: Ha-ha!
NotBoy: Good, innit?
Boy: Sure was cute!
NotBoy: Ha-ha! You're not mad, right?
Boy: ...
Boy: ...
Boy: ...
Boy: Why do you do that?
posted by LauraB 1:09 PM
The scene: Panaji, Goa, the Portuguese fortress on the eastern seas of India.
The year: 1784. The Portuguese have just annexed a neighboring canton. The French, with revolutionary ideas, have recently showed up in some of the capital's brothels.
The characters:
- Ipplolito Desideri, a Jesuit missionary who has recently arrived in India. Despite a number of gastroinestrinal disturbances brought upon him from his passage over, he studies a rare Sanskrit dictionary passionately, and is obessesed with discovering evidence of an Indo-European proto-language.
- Donna Maria, the domineering French widow of the weak-willed Spaniard Don Roberto des los Camposnos. She's cozy with the
- Marquis of Lourical, the new viceroy with all those new-fangled guns
- Prudence Paine, a young British woman recently fled from the American Revolution
- Shashi Sardessai, princess of Panaji, with ties to the powerful Tipu Sultan of Mysore
The plot: to come.
posted by LauraB 7:10 PM