Okay, I'm bored- so we're going to play a little game here. I'm going to show you glimpses of one of my novels, and you're going to try and piece together what's happening. Feedback for bonus points. Ready?
"Can you hear them? The lampposts can’t stop crying! I don’t blame them, though. They’re all so close to one another but they can’t walk to visit each other. So close, yet so far away… Misery loves company and yet I’m so lonely…"
"I now wonder if God had blessed me when I was removed from the team after that accident… Did he rescue me from V’s fate, or did he use me so that I might seal it? God is in man and man alone, I realize. Did I use V? I cannot tell anymore…"
"I didn’t mean it…. I don’t hate you! I just want to be with you and mommy and daddy again…."
"I am the Jaws that Bite, I am the Claws that Catch. I am the Lurker of the Tumtum Tree and the Frumious Bandersnatch. I am the Monster. I am Fear, and there is nothing to fear but Fear Itself."
"I want my baby back... I want to share a bed again, I don’t want to be cast aside... I don’t want to be your wife? We will play out Sleeping Beauty and you will be the princess-but will l be the prince? Or will you be the prince and I be the princess? Who is rescuing who? I know I could wake you from your slumber with just one kiss but how can I do that if you won’t even kiss me anymore? I’m failing miserably- you’re failing miserably. We became one, we are one, we will die as one. We are misery. Roses are red, violets are blue, I gave you my heart and you ran it through."
"When a madman asks you to push him off a cliff so that he may show you how he can fly, are you murdering him if you do? Oh, another fool drunk on dreams. He is but another Icarus, and yet it hurts to see him burn."
"Oh too long since I’ve jumped and sang! I want to play, I want to frolic, I want to feel, I want to be! In daylight I walk with you, in dreams I dance with you till my heels are raw and your eyes bleed rainbows! Epileptic Ecstasy is my name, but you may call me Mr. Star!"
"I see Aphrodite crucified upon Christ’s cross! She speaks to me and says 'V, oh love! Oh V! Why have you forsaken me in your eyes?! I forgive you for you know not what you do!'... But I will not, for I am a jealous lover! If I cannot have you, then nobody will! Let us drink deep and bid farewell with the passionate kiss of death!"
"I’m a great doctor. I have done great things. With my brilliant mind I will help others. With my calculating mind I will hide myself in them. With my cold mind I will lie to myself. I am a doctor. I am Doctor V. I am V Doctor. I am scared by myself. I am a brilliant, calculating, cold monster. Leslie's dead, Timmy’s dead, V’s dead… I am a murderer… I am a monster. I am far worse than any of these creatures, because I created them… I made them by simply being who I am… I am foolish. I am desperate. I am Empty. I am A Mistake. I shall become something great and terrible."
"If you choose to pull that trigger, I have no intention of watching you do so. Did you really think you could save yourself with a bullet? I was a suicidal moron myself once- I've met your kind before. I was a drama queen whom all the pity in the world couldn't satiate. The question is, are you being true when you cry, or is this another stunt? I will not go back there, and neither will you!"
"I never understood why people liked the sun so much. It’s so mundane and you can’t look at it without burning your eyes. I think the moon is far more enchanting- it’s like a wonderful giant mirror that shows you who you really are if you dare stare into it long enough. That's why I chase it every night- I hope one day I might get a head start and catch it so I can put it in my hallway. Did I ever tell you I was the first person on the moon? It’s not so hard, really. You just gotta learn to fly like I did- sanity is so heavy, it’s no wonder most people have never been there. What about you? Do you wish to come with me?"
" I have not gone through all of this to be like you!"
"Who said I wanted you to be like me? That'd be soooo boring."
Yeah, that's all you're going to get- not to be selfish here, I'm just not one for divulging original ideas.