Moment 18 Flashcards
Presley: She’s been panicky all day. I had to describe it five times.
Cosmo: Describe what?
Presley: More than five! Five and a half!
Cosmo: Describe bloody what?
Presley: I’ve never had to describe it that much.
Cosmo: Describe what, for fucks sake?
Presley: Oh … I describe what it looks like outside.
Cosmo: It’s just the street outside.
Presley: That’s right.
Cosmo: Well, don’t she already know what -?
Presley: I describe a new street. A new everything. Me and Haley - we’ve created it. Together.
Cosmo: Wh-what d’you mean?
Presley: We imagine its after the nuclear holocaust and we’re the only two left alive.
Cosmo: The only two?
Presley: The only two.
Cosmo: … Describe it to me.
Presley: Why?
Cosmo: I want to hear it.
Presley: There’s no point.
Cosmo: Yes there is.
Presley: Oh no, there isn’t.
Cosmo: Oh yes, there is.
Presley: Oh no, there isn’t.
Slight pause.
Cosmo: I want. To bloody. Hear it.
Presley: Say, ‘Please.’
Cosmo: Please.
Presley: Say, ‘Please, Presley’
Cosmo: … Please, Presley.
Presley: Say, ‘Please, Presley, tell me what it’s like outside.m
Cosmo: Please, Presley, tell me what it’s like outside.
Presley: Why?
Cosmo: JUST FUCKING DO IT!
Presley: All right! All right! Sit down, then.
Cosmo: Well, what you waiting for?
Presley: You have to ask me questions.
Cosmo: What questions?
Presley: What things look like.
Cosmo: What’s it look like?
Presley: No, no, no. That’s not right. You have to begin with the sky.
Slight pause.
Cosmo: What does the sky look like?
Presley: It’s black. A sheet of dark cloud obscures everything. No heaven visible.
Cosmo: No heaven visible!
Presley: No stars. No moon. No comets. Nothing.
Slight pause.
Ask me if it’s snowing.
Cosmo: Is it snowing?
Presley: Slightly - Now the street.
Cosmo: What does the street look like?
Presley: You remember the corner shop?
….
Like a… a dark tower in the middle of a wasteland.
Cosmo: Why’re we still alive then?
