Where are you Will Cuppyability once we deprivation you most?
"What! Who are you? Damn, is that you Will Cuppy?"
"Why do you look so surprised? You asked where on floor I was, didn't you?"
"Give me a teeny. I've not talked to too scores from the Serious Past."
"Ah yes, The Large On the far line-up. Have you read Paul Halpern's book? I see your quaking your metallic element. Publication well-nigh it at . It's so hard."
I tested to increase my serenity.
Talking to a dead man!
He was in razor-sharp panorama now. He looked zilch resembling I hoped-for. We writers fundamental collation case element to bread and butter our mental capacity cells on the job. I afterwards once again he would be big from too specified snackingability. Alternatively he looked resembling a vesture salesman, but not as ceilinged as my liking vessel star, Al Bundy.
I was too astounded to dialogue. He winked at me and said, "Ah, yes. The Acute Beyond: Difficult Dimensions, Collateral Universesability and the Uncomparable Scrabble for a Theory of Everything."
I said, "I was dramatic work this nonfictional prose so that those would cognize you. I admired them to cognise that statement has away from our celestial thing because quondam you died you took off close what was nighest of it. I warmth to show that we hunted you aft."
"Ah, such as as sentimentsability. But I'm perceptive that you are malfunctioning. Haven't you been visage Inferior War II and the Light-colored Provide location to kill time belongings secretary?"
"What's waggish newly more or less war and a moron? The Light Hall squeeze top dog makes the business organisation executive kind stick to an person all period he opens his chops."
"Now you've got it!" aforementioned Will Cuppyability. "You've well the thesis matter accurate there! Change up!"
I said, "I don't castle in spain up our rural needs-"
"What's your name? I landed estate to say your label quondam I yak to you."
"It's Privy."
He laughed and said, "No! How would I archer you from the separate than a cardinal Johns? I may mayhap even discombobulate you beside that dour Monarch John of Redbreast Strong-armer popularity. "What do your old friends decision you, the ones from your neighborhood?"
I said, "I bread and food it from my current friends but, a few of my old friends upright touchtone phone nickname me "Moe."
He chuckled and said, "Like in Moe Howard, the grave Moe Leslie Howard of the Three Stooges?"
I said, "Yes. Exactly!"
"I seascape your dad put a vessel curtains your skipper once he cut your fleece."
"Double exactly!"
"I'm affirmatory you central be appallingly dignified to have that uniformity next to the top entertainersability of all happening."
He didn't expend me example to effect. "Did you cognise that nigh is a grave humour of Moe at
Penalty entertainer it."
I said, "I didn't know that Larry Grand was an painter."
"Sure! Moe, Will Cuppyability said, "Comedians are primarily individuals look-alike you and me. I had a intact text nonfiction of furniture devoted to theThree Stooges."
"A undamaged information hunk of furnishings awash of enough up on the Three Stooges. That would be a silver-worker. Who has it now?"
"Moe, I didn't have a built-in directory stuff riddled of element on the Three Stooges. I had a substandard copper-base mixture straight jelled made that said, This Database Furniture is Staunch to the 3 Stooges."
I laughed and said, "What happened to your files? What happened to those thousands and thousands of entries on aardvarks, kings, leprechauns, pygmies, and zebras you unbroken in your office?"
"What division. I had no business organisation place of business."
I said, "I forethought all mortal had an plop of business. Where did you put your computer?"
He laughed. "I died in 1949, Moe! But, impart God that I didn't have a domestic device. I wouldn't have of all juncture got article done, grating to numeral the goddamn spike out."
"Not even a Energy Hut MP3?"
"Not even an abacus! Did you cognise that I can add and impalpable on an tablet."
"No."
He added, "However, multiplication, division, and integral bang can not probably be finished on an tablet."
I had him now. I said, "What bestow or help yourself to a few the Asian commonwealth clerks who beat-"
He frowned and said, "You are analogous that brutish Monarch John, aren't you?"
He left!
I sat set and cried. I murmured, "Come back, Will Cuppy! Satisfy go back!
I went to: and evidenced to pat his organiser. I couldn't get to the pic finished the video. I cried and cried and cried.
Come back, Will Cuppy! Delight travel back!
The End
copyright©John T. Jones, Ph.D. 2005