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Friday, February 16, 2007

 

The Mirror: If you were my friend, why did I lose you?

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: Some scientists make breakthroughs while dreaming.
W: Friedrich August Kekulé said he discovered the benzene ring that way.
M: If you change the subject, definitely.
W: You don't want to talk about the benzene ring?
M: We're not always cartoon characters, except maybe from the outside.
W: Cartoon characters seldom discuss weighty matters.
M: Not yet.
W: When will cartoon characters begin their new profundity?
M: That's right, just hints.
W: They will hint at profundity?
M: Anything but that!
W: They will hint at frivolity, at banality?
M: Your voice creates clouds?
W: My voice creates clouds of doubt.
M: Please, allow me also to be inside the play.
W: Would you like to be both inside and outside the play?
M: You just have to will it.
W: The Theater of Will?
M: You and I are.
W: We form a theater of two.
M: Oh, I got the point.
W: I thought you did.
M: Be exact.
W: Be strict.
M: When will cartoon characters begin their new profundity?
W: I think they already have, for example, those in Maus.
M: When he repeats his silence at periodic intervals, it could be changing for him.
W: Spiegelman's silence between works?
M: Cartoon characters seldom discuss weighty matters.
W: But in Maus, they most certainly do.
M: The face of the dragon, shining with a terrible light, seemed to float in front of Samuel's eyes.
W: Was Samuel having a nightmare?
M: I thought you did.
W: I have occasional nightmares, but not of dragons per se.
M: Haven't you noticed?
W: Haven't I noticed the non-dragons?
M: Totally fixated.
W: I am fixated on nothing at all.
M: I believe you.
W: But I lied!
M: Americans want Life too much, too hard.
W: And we lie a lot.
M: It would involve some danger, certainly.
W: The danger lies in not lying.
M: Nothing sustains me.
W: Not even a well-placed truth?
M: You really think it's the one you're closest to out of all others?
W: I am pretty close to truth.
M: I have a confession to make.
W: Let's hear it.
M: I was not obliged to mention Pound.
W: But you did, in spite of yourself?
M: We know that you like to think of yourself in China.
W: Pound was fascinated with the Chinese, with their history.
M: Are you reversing your position on Gunter Grass?
W: I have no position on Gunter Grass, to speak of.
M: See this?
W: I see a mirror and some statues.
M: Not even a well-placed truth?
W: A mirror tells its silvered truth.
M: This is how I want you to treat me: like your long-lost friend.
W: If you were my friend, why did I lose you?
M: But I lied!
W: I have to accept that, maybe you were just being tactful.
M: It's all in nothing.
W: Don't you mean "all or nothing"?
M: I am pretty close to truth.
W: You came close, but you made a Freudian slip.
M: I don't know why, but I can't.
W: You can't get it quite right?
M: Find out.
W: How do I find that out?
M: Yes, let's go back in time.
W: Let's examine the papers of your learned society.
M: Too much Brazilian was spoken when I wasn't ready for it.
W: You met with your learned society in Brazil?
M: I'm walking a thin line here.
W: So am I, because they'll be closing any minute.
M: Not me, one to get the point.
W: You made your point.
M: In a similar sense, are there too many people?
W: Bye!
M: Closing in 1 second ... Goodbye!

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