Friday, February 17, 2012

Gepetto

-A customer! Are you here to buy a toy?
-No, Gepetto. It's just...some of us guys in town got to talking and we're not really sure what it is you do up here.
-Why, I make toys in my workshop, of course!
-But the only toys you have are little boy puppets.
-What other kind of toy is there?
-I dunno. A rocking horse, a train set...
-Who wants that? Trust me, a little boy puppet is the way to go. See?
-That's disturbingly life-like.
-By moving the strings you can make them do whatever you want!
-I'm getting the sense that you wish they were alive.
-Oh I do! I wish that every time I make one!
-I think we'd all be more comfortable if you made something else.
-Well, I also make clocks.
-Perfect! We could use a clockmaker.
-Whenever my clocks chime I know it's time to get to work on more little boys!
-You're a lonely man, aren't you Gepetto?
-Hardly! I have a fish and a cat to talk to. And just last night a cricket moved in!
-I need you to show me your workshop.
-You can meet Pinocchio!
-I don't want to ask--
-I wished and I wished for a real live boy and this morning I finally got one!
-I'm burning this place to the ground.