Thursday, October 9, 2008

Logic Loop

AT RISE:

Two GUYS eat at a table.

GUY A:
Being as I am the first one to talk, I am assuming dominance over this conversation.

GUY B:
C'mon guy, enough with the metatexuality.

GUY A:
What do you mean?

GUY B:
You know exactly what I mean.

GUY A:
No, really. What're you getting at?

GUY B:
Look, I'm not going to get into it.

GUY A:
Why not?

GUY B:
Because it's virtually impossible for me to critique your habit of pointing out our nature as dramatic constructs without myself pointing out our nature as fictional entites. And once that's happened, there's nowhere for the story to go without becoming overly clever and thus unsatisfying.
(A beat)
Shit.

They stare at their food.

GUY A:
Does this mean the play's over?

GUY B:
Of course not.

BLACKOUT. END PLAY.

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