Monday, 11 July 2016









Skunk: That still doesn’t tell me who you are, I mean you live on this estate, i- in this mansion here, all this... but I still don’t have any idea how how... Who are you really?
deleted name: I can’t tell you. Even if I did tell you you wouldn’t believe it, even with all this, this house and everything. It’s all set up so I can’t tell, it it’s not, it’s out of my hands. But you wouldn’t believe that I, you’d think I
Skunk: Okay then, you tell me, and I’ll tell you if I believe your your... revelations.
Silence.
deleted name: Skunk, I’m the wife who wants her husband to bring her flowers and cannot ask.
Pause.
Skunk: What, what the hell does that mean?
deleted name: Well… oh forget it.
Skunk: No. Don’t… Don’t start to say something and then
deleted name: Don’t you, don’t you get it? If the wife has to ask for the flowers, when, when she receives them it’s the result of her husband feeling the, the obligation to do what she wants. It’s a double-bind; she wants her husband to spontaneously give her flowers, but he won’t, so she has to ask him to get her the flowers, which means that when he does he’s only acting out of some sense of duty or obligation, which… I mean, that completely negates the whole point of how she wants to receive the flowers in the first place.
Sighing.
deleted name: Ideally she wants her husband to arrive home one night with the flowers, without her having to ask. The minute she asks, or brings the subject up at all, he feels duty-bound to buy her the flowers, but she doesn’t want him buying her flowers out of any sense of obligation.
Pause.
Skunk: And who am I in all of this?