I haven’t bothered lately to check and see if the sasquatch cam is still working. Well, I did, and well, it is.
Loon: They’ve brought me some artist named Marcel Duchamp. I’m not the greatest on art and things, but I’ll give it a go. 3 questions. Number one – Mister … or I suppose Herr, you being some sort of foreigner … Duchamp, in the olden days did you guys worship the sun?
Marcel Duchamp’s ghost: It depends on whether you’re talking about Thursday or tarantulas.
Loon: I’m … not … sure. Let me rephrase the question. Did you eat a lot of candy bars while you worked?
Marcel Duchamp’s ghost: Ah, Thursday it is. You may proceed.
Loon: Oh. Well … I … Okay … Why do you like Thursday so much?
Marcel Duchamp’s ghost: Tarantulas now? Really, mon ami, you should make up your mind.
Loon: ?????????
(Duchamp’s ghost flutters and disappears into the wainscoting.)
Bod hesitated, and a flutter of night-black velvet resolved itself into a man-shape.
Writes well, does this bloke, eh what?
BLACK GATE, BLOOD DESCENDING
is an obvious choice, but far subtler would be
HELEN’S DREAM
or my personal favorite
NOT EVEN CLOSE TO FINDING NEMO
new year’s Eve
i do believe
is really Brigid O’Shaughnessy
not Mary Astor
or anyone vaster
than the red dressed maidenly walking disaster
Loon: Today for our 3 questions we welcome the writer I consider to be the finest playwright in American history. I’m honored, Ms. West.
Mae West’s ghost: Mmmm, thanks, honey, but honor has nothin’ to do with it.
Loon: What do you mean?
Mae West’s ghost: I always mean what I say. Get me?
Loon: I’m not sure. At any rate, moving on, how do you go about writing a play?
Mae West’s ghost: It ain’t the writer in the play that’s important. It’s the play in the writer.
Loon: What do you mean?
Mae West’s ghost: Bein’ dead ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Say, you’re all right. Mmm, come on over when you croak.
(Mae dissipates. Loon blinks his eyes, mouth agape.)
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.
Ummm, Oooooookay.
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