James Baldwin

Peter Panic

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  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    PETER:
    Don’t be frightened.
    WENDY:
    You’re going to die.
    PETER:
    I’ve died lots of times.
    WENDY:
    We’re not playing.
    PETER:
    Death’s the best game of all.
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    me. Peter will purge moral panic,
    cleanse broken souls, this brutal act tonight
    will restore peace and love to all.
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    I’d have the biggest adventure of them
    all, that I wouldn’t see the dawn.
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    PETER:
    It’s not midnight yet.
    STEPHEN:
    Do you know something?
    PETER:
    It’s not midnight yet.
    WENDY:
    You said you hadn’t
    watched the news.
    PETER:
    World-casts are so unreal, it’s
    always better to use your hands and mind.
    WENDY:
    Do you know something Peter?
    PETER:
    It’s not time!
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    PETER:
    So the
    daddy gives the mummy a baby to
    show his love?
    STEPHEN:
    Yes.
    PETER:
    So you must not love
    Wendy?
    STEPHEN:
    Of course I do.
    PETER:
    But you haven’t

    given her a baby.
    STEPHEN:
    No but I will.
    PETER:
    You won’t have to.
    STEPHEN:
    What?
    PETER:
    I’ll give her one first.
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    I’m talking about doing whatever
    is necessary in order for you
    to retake control. The time for listening
    has gone; we must condemn a little more
    and understand a little less.
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    STEPHEN:

    But who’s to blame if not me?

    WENDY:

    The bastard who ripped an unborn child from
    a dying woman’s womb. Find that person,
    find the child dead or alive and give the
    people what they want.

    STEPHEN:

    What’s that?

    WENDY:

    As you said. Blood.
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    STEPHEN:

    There is no beauty in loss of control.

    WENDY:

    Control is never lost, only exchanged.
    That’s what I’m saying; in those shared moments
    these people take back what little control
    there can be in their lives, collectively
    they remove the leash on which they feel bound.
    Their shared destruction harnessed becomes a
    positive force and the more often these
    moments, the more often they’re in control,
    until we get to where we are now.
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    STEPHEN:

    And there’s the rub. Because we’re
    all poor and we all have student debt and
    we all wished secretly that we were the
    bankers and longed for the protection of
    a gang and we all read the newspapers
    so that leaves a great big brush tarnishing
    us all. But blame is specific. They want blood, the
    blood of those who are to blame.
  • drgnnxhas quoted4 years ago
    ETER:

    Those are my new lucky pants.

    WENDY:

    Please Peter.

    PETER:

    Clammy. I thought I never wanted to be a man but now I’m realising there are other ways to have fun.

    WENDY:

    Peter, I’m
    a grown woman.

    PETER:

    Wendy, we’re the same age.

    WENDY:

    Once maybe.

    PETER:

    In here.

    PETER gently places his hand over her heart, touching her breast.
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