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From: curious author
Date: 17 Jul 2003
Time: 08:50:27 -0400
Remote Name: 63.77.13.62
Dear Nick, I too am an author and I wanted to mention a scene in your book Museum at Purgatory where the main character apologizes to this lady over coffee. I'm writing a sort of Orwellian storyline about a woman kidnapped and placed in a stadium by herself in the future, surrounded by the "crowd" an elite group who are able via technology to make human beings their living entertainment, and interact with them. The lady is forced to live like a prisoner in the center of the place, a home crafted they can see into, she must do everything in front of them, only, get this, that "last little space of freedom" Orwell talked about is gone, now this futuristic group of people can penetrate your mind, influence your thoughts, torture you remotely, etc. They keep the woman isolated in the stadium, humiliate her, bark at her on microphones, inflict pain from time to time like Pavlov's dog, all to 'break her will" and reshape her their way. They consider it, a challenge. Their goal is to force her to mate with someone and give birth, and the child will be the sequel to their current entertainment. (Another prisoner) They make songs up to mock her, art to mock her, basically try to puppet her. My heroine veers between thoughts of suicide, and yet, I'll have divine intervention in her case give her another way out. My long build-up to the question is, there is this artist, not the only one, but the most "famous one" in my story who is hired by the stadium people to portray this woman in art, and he is truly sorry and she knows it, but he can't get out of it. I wanted him to rebel and portray the stadium for what it is, you know, stop mocking her, the way they wanted, and portray them as the monsters they are. As brutally honest as they want him to be about her. And show the truth. The scene where the guy apologizes, I believe he's a surgeon, right? For cutting this woman up, and being unable to put her back together, intrigues me, because my anti-hero would become a hero, I want him to put her back together by aiming his intellect and talent at the target most deserving, those who run the stadium. Their viscious faces. Their viscious smiles. Their malicious glee in dissecting human beings. The faces surrounding her, her curled up in a fetal position. Doesn't that make a great image? The closer they get, pressed all around her, eating her like acid, the more triumphant her escape, and I will have her take other people out of their stadiums, when she escapes (by the grace of God) she frees other prisoners like herself. What do you think of that plot? And instead of the weak, sorry, but hopeless anti-hero like in Purgatory (sorry but I can't take it back) I want him to be proactive? Turn on the ones who commissioned him to do this unspeakable thing? It saves his soul and self-esteem. Now his art is a weapon in defense of purity. What do you think? Sounds like a great movie, doesn't it? by the way, hows your movie coming? will it be a honest portrayal of your characters or are they going to try to "glam it up" like everything else? oh well, curious author. thanks for your input. ps I want my artist to make his brush a sword, in defense of the light think there is hope?