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[David Strugnell]

JAMES: I suppose I was angry. The she said 'Sweet Jane! Sweet Jane!'
HARRY: You said you saw a ghost, James?
JAMES: I did. I said this, Harry. Still watching the cricket?
HARRY: Superb stuff. Really great team. Indians doing so well.
JAMES: Have to have a look, Harry. Always good to watch expertise.
HARRY: Certainly.
JAMES: I know Essex well. Always had a good cricket team.
HARRY: I think I have to behave myself. Chips no good. Chicken no good. Elements getting up my nose. Saw it this way. (JAMES yawns.) Then I had to buy gas. In America. Cruising through Philadelphia. I was. I thought everything was alright. I was getting on. I was not saying anything. They said I was a bad personality. I have to be alright. They had hands. They had feet. I am saying I saw a demon. Green eyes. Yellow tail. Good teeth. I am saying everything is nasty. Praise something. Please praise something, James. You have to. You simply have to. Do it. Do it, my man. You have to. You simply have to. Please do it. Please do it. Please do it. I am sheltering somewhere in my imagination, my son. I have to. I simply have to. Rent a video. Years back, James. (JAMES laughs.) Why are you laughing, my fellow?
JAMES: I am simply bored away from my skull, Harry.
HARRY: Charming. Christ!
JAMES: You're saying something?
HARRY: I've just seen a ghost!

THE END

[Jack of Hearts]

Apparently it's a 'right back to the beginning' kind of ending. And there must be some subtext play in there (meaning certain actions aren't written but implied by the characters' lines and the actors would pantomime these actions or have props, etc).

At any rate, reading this made this reader feel like he was suffering from degenerative mental disease. Like a camera in and out of focus. He just couldn't trace whatever it's supposed to be about.





J

[hillwalker]

Your avatar is unfortunately more amusing than this piece of self-indulgent writing.

H

[David Strugnell]

JAMES: I think we need a women getting the thing in focus.
HARRY: But we're too skinniy. Women go for Schwarzenegger types.
JAMES: This must be a tragedy.
HARRY: At least we have our Football Weekly collection.
JAMES: Superb. I love nostalgia. Remember Gordon Hill?
HARRY: Merlin the Wizard?
JAMES: Yes. Represented Manchester United and England.
HARRY: Degenerative mental problems? Anagram!
JAMES: First two blinking words, Samuel Barclay Beckett?
HARRY: Degenerative mental?
JAMES: Check it out.
HARRY: Cool.
JAMES: A Teenaged Vermin Let.
HARRY: Do you mean allow my moronic son Pascal to have his Van Halen recordings drowning Orange County?

FADE