Elevated Noon: A Nanoplay

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Characters:

      Marshall Phil Kane
      Deputy Marshal Dario Pell

Deputy Pell: Gonzalez and his men will be here any minute, Marshall.  [The bell in the church tower tolls once.]  What are you aimin’ to do?

Marshall Kane:  The stakes are heavy, Pell, you know that, as light as one might try to make them seem.  [The bell tolls a second time.]

Deputy Pell:  He’s a killer, Marshall, one of the best shots in the Territories, an’ he’s got an old score to settle.

Marshall Kane:  Yeah, well I figger he won’t be expecting a gun barrel-full of satire and other literary techniques.  [The bell tolls a third time.]  It’s Horatian that got him convicted, it’ll be Juvenalian puts him away once and for all …

Comments

[ahfukit]

Elevated Noon, es bueno.

(What's the difference between Phil C. and Phil A.? Felix is a more natural offender.)

[Tony Bologna]

Gracias. Phil A. is the shadow archetype. It's who the captain of Geek Patrol sees in the mirror before he shaves. Phil C., I've always contended, has much nicer legs than either -- although I've never seen his legs. Phil C. is the kind of guy you'd trust to keep a town safe from think tankers and other elitist scum.

[J. Alva Scruggs]

I always thought Phil A. was a werecritter of some kind. He spoke to me once about coherence, which eventually lead me to try this.

Phil C. and I met in a used record shop, where we both reached for the last copy of the Die Dreigroschenoper. "I speak German", I blurted. He looked at me funny and let go of the record.

[The Happy Tutor]

Phil C has often been mistaken for Phil A and vice versa. The Council on Foundations blog got it wrong. Phil C and Phil A are both analytic philosophers of sorts, have both embraced the philanthropy business as a "calling." Both have read Oscar Wilde with profit. However their "identities" remain fluid and overlap only at the shadowy boundary between Wealth Bondage and Philanthropy.

[Eh?]

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[Dickor Trevinson]

(Oh-HO, the fruit of his purloins hath surfaced!)