"You are not really dying, are you?" asked Amanda. "I have the doctor's permission to live till Tuesday," said Laura. "But to-day is Saturday; this is serious!" gasped Amanda. "I don't know about it being serious; it is certainly Saturday," said Laura. "Death is always serious," said Amanda. "I never said I was going to die. I am presumably going to leave off being Laura, but I shall go on being something. An animal of some kind, I suppose. You see, when one hasn't been very good in the life one has just lived, one reincarnates in some lower organism. And I haven't been very good, when one comes to think of it. I've been petty and mean and vindictive
Now this one I think DOES have a hook.
[This message has been edited by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (edited February 26, 2009).]
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
Except we don't know where they are or what they're actually thinking, making them the literary version of Talking Heads.
Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :
But I think you do begin to get a sense of who the characters are, especially Laura. She's NOT taking this seriously. And in half a dozen more lines, she does die--on Monday.