Meanwhile, over in truepenny's head

[truepenny]

ROS: You know, this book is kind of for crap.
GUIL: Oh hush.
ROS: But it is.
GUIL: You always think that after you read the edit letter. Hush.
ROS: Fine.
[beat]
ROS: But it's definitely broken.
GUIL: All books are broken. Bear says so. You're not going to try and argue with Bear, are you?
ROS: No-ooo.
GUIL: Well, then.
[beat]
ROS: But it's broken! And don't tell me you know how to fix it, 'cause you don't.
GUIL: Well ...
ROS: The reviews are going to trash it. And everyone's going to laugh and laugh and laugh.
GUIL: They are not.
ROS: Book-burning parties, then.
GUIL: You are exaggerating.
ROS: Yeah, I know. It's not that bad.
GUIL: Exactly.
ROS: It's not interesting enough to be that bad. It'll just sink like the Titanic--no, not even like the Titanic, like a freaking canoe with a hole in it!--and we are going to be the guy in the poem. And not the happy guy, either.
GUIL: OhfertheloveofChrist!
ROS: Go on. Tell me I'm wrong.
GUIL: Look. We'll fix it.
ROS: How?
GUIL: By bleeding all over the fucking page! How do you think!
ROS: [very small] Oh. [beat] I was hoping there was an easier way.
[GUILDENSTERN starts laughing. It's going to be a while before he stops.]
[Moodily, ROSENCRANTZ makes paper airplanes out of the ms and launches them off the stage.]

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[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

God I loved R&G said the old gal who'd seen the original New York production back when she was, oh, 15 or 16.

Maybe even she said, looking back Maybe they're why I fell in love with truepenny's discussions on LJ about The Dissertation (having already fallen in love with the discussions about DLS because I'd been a mad DLS fan since the age of about 10 or 11) -- Well, R&G and The Worm Ouroboros.

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