a mercifully brief glimpse into the brain
LEFT: Yeah, all of these characters are talented in some way or another. Let’s explore that! Now, Sara:
RIGHT: Poetry.
LEFT: Poetry? Um…
RIGHT: Poetry. It’s obvious. She’s an overachiever, she would have picked up the skill in order to impress teachers. She might have some embarrassing poems about boys in her teenage past, but now –
LEFT: OH NO.
RIGHT: You know it’s right. Nothing else will work.
LEFT: You’re overlooking something crucial.
RIGHT: Nope. All the pieces fit.
LEFT: WE HAVE TO WRITE THE POEM.
RIGHT: ...
LEFT: We have to write the poem. Sara is not going to pop out of our head like Athena and write the thing for us. If Sara is a poet, we have to write the poem. You understand the import of this.
RIGHT: The demands of the art…
LEFT: It’s gonna have to be a fucking sonnet! God. Christ.
RIGHT: Uh..
LEFT: I did not get into drawing cartoons so that I can JESUS who would have thought I’d be writing a sonnet? For something like this? Can’t her talent be vivisection!?
RIGHT: Erm.
LEFT: God! Fine.