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Today I decided I need passions for my protagonist to have, besides the whole "I'm planning a mass suicide" thing. So the obvious choice is magazines and his astonishment at how they control people. Another of his passions will be "Waiting for Godot", just because I feel like writing about it and the awesome thing about plays is you can write 30 pages of just conversation. I have this dialogue sketched out in my writing notebook: "Have you read 'Waiting for Godot'? People say it's about purgatory but I don't think it is. The tragedy is waiting in life. Waiting for the next step, the next task, the final task. And with my plan, I give them a way out." At some point, the girl he argues with will state my favorite line of Beckett's piece: This one is not enough for you?
He will have an infatuation with trains as well. He will be building a train throughout the play on stage, giving each individually a personality, name...and stating after each description "he will die." Perhaps they will symbolize his converts. Towards the end of the play, he will tell the girl why he loves trains. He says they always move, chug along, but society doesn't. (His congregation is extremely tolerant.) He says on a train there is no end in sight and we just wait for our stop. Someone else, some higher being, is in control of your uncertain destiny. The scary thing, he says, about death is that we are unprepared. It could come at anytime. But when we are our own conductors, (moves a figurine to the conductor's chair) it is not so scary anymore. (maybe then saying how people before they commit suicide are happy.) I'm confusing myself but I wanted to add something about how trains make stops, symbolizing steps in life, and you want it to be yours. But it can't...why not?
Also throughout the play, he will be setting up dominoes (director's problem). He'll say they're all waiting to fall and isn't death beautiful when everyone cooperates? But when a single domino falls, no one notices. Is that type of death worth waiting for?
Input, please.
He will have an infatuation with trains as well. He will be building a train throughout the play on stage, giving each individually a personality, name...and stating after each description "he will die." Perhaps they will symbolize his converts. Towards the end of the play, he will tell the girl why he loves trains. He says they always move, chug along, but society doesn't. (His congregation is extremely tolerant.) He says on a train there is no end in sight and we just wait for our stop. Someone else, some higher being, is in control of your uncertain destiny. The scary thing, he says, about death is that we are unprepared. It could come at anytime. But when we are our own conductors, (moves a figurine to the conductor's chair) it is not so scary anymore. (maybe then saying how people before they commit suicide are happy.) I'm confusing myself but I wanted to add something about how trains make stops, symbolizing steps in life, and you want it to be yours. But it can't...why not?
Also throughout the play, he will be setting up dominoes (director's problem). He'll say they're all waiting to fall and isn't death beautiful when everyone cooperates? But when a single domino falls, no one notices. Is that type of death worth waiting for?
Input, please.