I can't guarantee that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. I honestly hope so, and I'll do my best to guarantee it, but some brief moments of happiness may claw their way through and break the forsaken monotony of boredom, rejection, and loss I have planned for you. At those times, when you find yourself smiling and relieved, please think back to this moment and consider this my advance apology.
Now, then, shall we get down to business? You've destroyed countless people's lives, and it's only fair for someone to return the favor. Hm. A curious problem—uh, normally, I would say 'Thank you for your time,' but this is an interesting case, so, I guess I'll just say: 'To our great adventure: may you always be sad, and may my imagination never be empty."
Welcome to hell on Earth. Let's begin.
Saturday, November 25, 2017
11.25
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There's a sense of bitter vindictiveness in this narrator's tone, mefeels. (Yes, there's a squiggly red line underneath that, but if I can say 'methinks' I'm gonna say 'mefeels' in the same way. With you I feel I can get away with that.) And so then I'm full of questions.
ReplyDeleteDoes the narrator derive any pleasure out of their...duty? job? self-inflicted task? of creating hell on Earth for the one meant to receive this explanation, this pre-apology not-really-an-apology. How did the narrator get into such a place? Why is this the narrator's task to accomplish? Why is that their motivation?
Is the narrator reliable? For we only have the narrator to rely on in regards to the subject's character, that they destroyed countless lives. How did the subject do that? Why did they do that? How did they come to be in the narrator's control? responsibility? possession?
I feel as if I've got a sense of the narrator's character, of their motivations, of their feelings, but my main response is questions. And perhaps that's what you, the author, wanted.
I've never seen anyone put hatred more beautifully than William Goldman, who wrote the Princess Bride.
ReplyDeleteTo the pain.
Anyway, that's what I was after, in a way. Just some catharsis.
ReplyDeleteAh. Well, I do hope you've achieved it, at least in some small portion.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, 'to the pain' is a very well-done summation of hatred, I agree.
(What did the sibling tattoo look like?)