Conversations of a Lesser Quality.
Kristen
Doesn’t the phrase Children of a Lesser God inspire some sort of fear or awe in you?
Mouse
Yes.
Kristen
Doesn’t it make you feel terror?
Like, my God, who are these children?
Mouse
Um. It just sounds incredible
Makes you think.
Kristen
It sounds epic.
Mouse
So many things.
Kristen
Fuck that guy for taking that title for a play about deaf people.
Mouse
Oh. Lameeee.
Kristen
See?
Mouse
Do you think you could actually write something to live up that?
Kristen
No.
Mouse
Of course not.
Kristen
Seriously, I would only trust that title to someone like, dead.
Mouse
It would have to be something apocalyptic.
Or about the inherent flaws in all of us.
Kristen
About the holocaust.
Yes! Thank you! I am being validated.
It should be like this esoteric mind numbingly wonderful epic work.
Mouse
Well it all stems from my hatred of the deaf.
Kristen
People should weep at it.
Mouse
Should be like phone book sized and when you read it your life would be forever changed.
Kristen
Like War and Peace!
And your ears bleed.
Mouse
Seriously, what’s with the exclamation points?
They are to be rationed and used sparingly.
Kristen
No, I’m using them all up tonight then.
Seriously, no one has ever agreed with me on this.
Mouse
Fuck you.
We agreed to ration.
There’s none left.
Are you happy?
Kristen
The gulf of exclamation points is empty?
Mouse
Now Rodriguez is starving, and he can’t emote that energetically.
Kristen
Would it be like an Eternal Sunshine thing?
Being John Malkovich?
Darker?
Mouse
Probably.
Kristen
Children of Men.
Mouse
Yes, but not that.
But thematically along the same vein.
Kristen
The hopelessness.
Hopelessness is really the most horrible thing
Mouse
This should be a fucking story where no one gets to be happy.
Not a fucking lame ass love story.
Kristen
Exactly. It should end like Hamlet.
Everyone’s dead.
Mouse
YES
We’re all fucked from the start basically.
Everyone. all the characters.
Everyone just gets progressively more fucked.
Until they’re fucked dead.
Kristen
I want to write that story but I wouldn’t do it justice and the fucking title has already been used.
I am so blogging this.
Mouse
I knew it.
you are such an idiot.
Oh, believe me we know. You didn’t have to post that anonymously.
Why take it from the point of the Children? ‘Lesser God’ has reams more potential for ditching the rationing of punctuation. Just think of the possibilities; the finite options before vacuum. Of course the main reason is the ending: spiritual silence!
May I say, “Hi, Mouse”?
(One trounced from each column – I think.)
I never even considered that but now that you mentioned it I am now wondering who these ‘lesser gods’ are. Gosh, that’s terrifying.
Will send Mouse your regards though he usually comes by here fairly often.
ps. Forgot how often I swear in conversation with him. Apologies.