el dorado
scenes from the road
by   rob   wittig
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scene 1
scene 2
scene 3
scene 4
-- scene 5 --
scene 6

-------------------------		 ----- > -------------------------------------------   "Your story sucked, by the way.
The one you read in Chicago."



-----------------------------------------------------------------------		 "Thank you."



------------------------------------------------------		 "No, I mean it. It was peinlich and literary and only had a couple of real-sounding lines at the end."



---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------		 ------------ very - dark - sky - becoming  ---------------------------------------------- "I said thank you.
Where's my gun?"



-----------------------------------------------------------------------		 "My dear Rob, could this indeed be
the famous 'tornado weather'
of which you spoke?"
  ----------------------------------------------------------		 "You can write
better than that."



-----------------------------------------------------------		 "Thank you.
Bang."



------------------------------------------------------		 "Yeah, could be tornado weather. Only if it starts raining, though."
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------		 "How many people
in this car
write, in part, to fulfill a parent's unfulfilled art dreams?"



---------------------------- two - hands - up - immediately - go --------------		 ----------------------------------------------------------------- plop  ------------------- "Uh-oh."



------------------------------------------------------ a - third - hand - halfway - up - sneaks --------------		 ploopity













-------------------------------		 ---------------------------------------- "I count 2 and 1/2 hands."



-------------------------------------------------------------		 spleep






-------------------------------------		 ------------------------------------------- "Torna-DO! Torna-DO! Come, on! Torna-DO! Clap your hands now, Torna-DO! Torna-DO! Everybody! Torna-DO! Torna-DO!"



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tina - with - tape - recorder - from - the - back - seat - cheer - leads 		   --------------------------- storms - Tina - loves ------------------------------------------ "How many in this car
hate what they usually hear at poetry readings?"



--------------------------------- enthusiastically - four - hands - up - rush ---------------		 ------------------------------------------ pittering ---------------------- pattering ------------------------------ pounding - a - son - of - a - bitch - like  --------------------------------------- Dierk - his - fountain - pen - as - his - sword - wields ----- "Have at you, peinlich poetry reading demons!"
  ------------------------------------------------- lightning ------------------------------- kaboom  ----------------------------------------------------		 "What? Will I actually be fortunate enough
to die in an American tornado?
Can life hold such glory?
Cool-0-sweet!
  ------------------------------------------------------------------  		 --------------- "How many in this car
write as well as they talk?"



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el dorado
scenes from the road
by   rob   wittig
_

scene 1
scene 2
scene 3
scene 4
-- scene 5 --
scene 6

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