3/23/09
H,
There's a George Stanley quote I tacked to the front cover of a script (another screenplay guy in your life, I'm afraid) which is "You have confused the true and the real."
In the context of the script, this has more to do with the central character's conception of events versus any conceived reality. Since I am not writing an essay, this quote has no business being stuck to the front of a script, but I'm meeting a couple of actors tonight and it's stuck to the front as a noisemaker, if nothing else. We can talk about how one of the characters may not be real, and mull over the idea -- if that this means anything at all. Usually when I see quotes stuck to a script, there's a problem with the central idea of the script, and that is quite likely the case here. I like the quote and thought you might, too.
My penmanship, a good friend once told me, resembles the line on an EKG, so I am grateful to you that your penmanship comes from a civilized, productive source, as opposed to a patient hooked up to a machine recording vital signs.
A school friend of mine said once regarding ejaculation, "A load is a load. How you time it is your problem...." Somebody with "ample, eager seed" should be wary of making boasts.
Yes, I read your journal entry with eager eyes, the ample seed may have been planted already, yes, I have felt that frustration, but so much of our daily interaction with others seems "surface," and what you write of the interior is very much hard evidence of your creative talent.
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