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Dialogue For a Movie
"How did you know it was love?"
"Shiroi Kage"
"Huh?"
"Shiroi Kage"
"Is this like Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects or Rollo Tomasi from L.A. Confidential?"
"Are you going to shoot me when I reveal the truth?"
"I might."
"For four years I spoke almost every day to a woman, We'd speak about everything and nothing, and one day we were talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the bomb. Her husband was working at White Sands on improving the bomb and I had been reading Alan Moore's Watchmen.
We started talking about the shadows that were burned onto the walls of the buildings left standing by Fat Man and Little Boy. Human beings evaporated into nothing but outlines of ash. She said there was a name for those shadows but she couldn't remember it. We lost touch eventually and went about our own seperate lives.
Then I met a girl, fell head over heels, couldn't get enough of her, never wanted it to end. She was into the bomb and I brought up the subject of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima shadows, and you know what she said?"
"Shiroi Kage"
"Are you going to shoot me now?"
"Yes."
Nov. 8.2006