Fiction
"I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory -- they're all blood, you see."
In other words, this is the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern one.
Summary: "Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive. We transport you into a world of intrigue and illusion ... clowns, if you like, murderers -- we can do you ghosts and battles, on the skirmish level, heroes, villains, tormented lovers -- set pieces in the poetic vein; we can do you rapiers or rape or both, by all means, faithless wives and ravished virgins -- flagrante delicto at a price, but that comes under realism for which there are special terms."
Ah, our poor unloved baby. I still like it, though.
Rating: NC-17. (Guildenstern: Is that what people want? Player: It's what we do.)
Warning! Characters die. Is it anyone you care about? That would be telling.
In other words, this is the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern one.
Summary: "Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive. We transport you into a world of intrigue and illusion ... clowns, if you like, murderers -- we can do you ghosts and battles, on the skirmish level, heroes, villains, tormented lovers -- set pieces in the poetic vein; we can do you rapiers or rape or both, by all means, faithless wives and ravished virgins -- flagrante delicto at a price, but that comes under realism for which there are special terms."
Ah, our poor unloved baby. I still like it, though.
Rating: NC-17. (Guildenstern: Is that what people want? Player: It's what we do.)
Warning! Characters die. Is it anyone you care about? That would be telling.
Complete • NC-17 • Series: Stand-alone • Chapters: 1 • Words: 91,605 • Views: 671 • Comments: 1 • Published: 3rd Aug 2008 • Updated: 3rd Aug 2008