q & a
eldon
INTERVIEW I
Q: What are you trying to do here?
LD: I don't know.
Q: Aren't you writing some sort of drama, a play, a text?
LD: Not now. I'm answering your questions.
Q: But you haven't.
LD: I am.
Q: OK. What are you going to write about?
LD: I'm not sure yet.
Q: What ARE you sure of?
LD: Nothing much.
Q: Look, I'm trying to interview you for your audience. About what you are going to write. It's simple. If you can't or won't answer me, then what's the point?
LD: I don't know.
Q: Can't you tell me anything?
LD: I guess so. What do you want to know?
Q: What the hell are you going to do? What do you intend to write? Do you have any plan?
LD: I want to explore the nature of tragedy. Is that alright then?
Q: Thank you.
LD: That's not a question
Q: You didn't say I wasn't allowed not to ask questions.
LD: Please don't make things difficult. You ask the questions. I will make the answers. That's what a conversation is, after all.
Q: No it isn't.
LD: I didn't come here to be argued with. Either ask me questions or shutup.
Q: OK, Why do you feel the need to control the conversation? Why do you need to have everything your way?
LD: I am a writer. Why do you think I write? What a stupid question.
Q: Why must you belittle my every effort to understand your motives on behalf of the readers?
LD: That's your interpretation. You make too many assumptions about me. Why don't you ask better and more incisive questions, which show that you know what you're talking about? You should present more of a challenge.
Q: There! That's exactly what I'm talking about.
LD: I told you before, I don't want to argue.
Q: What is the nature of tragedy?
LD: I don't know. That is why I am going to explore it. What do you think?
Q: What do you think is the nature of Shakespearean tragedy then?
LD: Ask somebody at a university. But I will tell you this: most of the ones I've personally come across are about three men in a love-hate triangle. Women form the catalysts. I want to see whether women can become better figures of tragedy. I think it's about time their cases were heard. Women are just as stupid as men. They're not all clever little Portias defending shallow gullible twits against merchants whose passions got the better of their good judgement.
Q <aside>: Thank fucking christ!
LD: I don't think there is anyone to thank at all, that's more to the point.
Q: That wasn't a question.
LD: I'll decide what the questions are.
Q: Don't you know Rosencrantz and Gilderstern are dead?
LD: No, and I don't care. What have they got to do with anything?
Q: Do you know Hamlet?
LD: The Mel Gibson look-alike -- sure.
Q: Alright. I give up for today.
LD: Good. I can get back to writing. Tomorrow I might have something to show you. I'll let you read it and you can tell me what it means.
Q: I can hardly wait.
LD: I know that. So would you please stick to the question.
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