Mini-Play: Impending

3-Act Play in 12 Lines

Jack: “Why does life always have to be a goddam rollercoaster ride?”

Jill: “Do you mean, Up-Down, Happy-Sad, and Going Nowhere Fast?”

Jack: “The former, but the latter irks me too!”

Jill: “I dunno, it’s just the Human Condition, I guess.”

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Jack: “I thought the Human Condition was living with the awareness of one’s eventual death.”

Jill: “Actually it’s living in denial of one’s eventual death.”

Jack shakes his head. “Awareness, denial, no wonder we’re such a screwed-up species.”

Jill: “At least it accounts for the rollercoaster ride.”

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Jack: “And the going nowhere fast thing too.”

Jill: “I wonder if animals experience ups and downs, and the feeling of going nowhere fast, you know, like an Animal Condition?”

Jack: “Yes, they call it Eat-or-be-Eaten.”