The Revisionist by Jesse Eisenberg

Author:Jesse Eisenberg
Language: eng, eng, fra, pol
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2013-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

BLACKOUT—

Scene 4

Six hours later

The lights are dim. 3A.M. Maria sits up in her bed with a Sudoku book and a night-light. David sleeps in his bed.

Suddenly, David falls out of bed onto the floor. He shoots up, panicked, grabs his pipe and baggie of weed. He jumps up onto the windowsill but slips off, grabbing his foot.

DAVID Ah! Fuck me!

MARIA David?

DAVID Yeah. Yeah. (runs into her room, heart racing) Hey, what’s up? Are you up? I just got up.

MARIA What happen to you? You wet.

DAVID Is it cold in here? It feels cold. I think I just, I think I had a nightmare or something.

MARIA Then is good time for the company.

DAVID Sure, yeah. Maybe I’ll just—I think I’ll maybe just sit down for a minute. (flops down on the floor at the edge of her couch) Wow!

MARIA You maybe tell me what nightmare was about.

DAVID Yeah? Is that a good idea? It’s good to exorcise. That’s good advice. Sure. I’ll tell you.

MARIA Okay. Begin.

DAVID Right. So I was in this kind of corporate office. Everything was so real. And I don’t go in these, so I don’t know how I know. Anyway, I was waiting for an elevator—

MARIA Wait, you wait here. (she fetches a wet washcloth from the kitchen) Keep speaking to me.

DAVID Okay, so I don’t know what I was doing there but I was waiting for an elevator. And, when it came, I stepped in and there was one other guy inside. He was just like a businessman, he was clean-cut, anonymous. And the doors closed and I criticized him in my mind. And we started going down and the elevator starts picking up speed. I didn’t hear anything snap—a cable or anything—but I know what’s happening, the guy knows what’s happening and we’re falling. (she presses the washcloth to his neck) Thank you. And then the guy looks at me and I see his eyes and he’s suddenly, like, real to me and then we both just looked at each other, knowing we would be the last thing we would both see. And I felt the rush. And I felt it. And I think I fell out of the bed. What do you think it could mean?

MARIA I think it mean you still drunk.

DAVID That’s true, that’s probably it. I guess it’s a cliché, a falling-elevator dream. I think I have an unimaginative subconscious, Maria. But it was real. Because it felt real. No. It felt good to tell you though, thank you. It feels good to tell you things.

MARIA It feels good.

DAVID I should probably just go back to sleep.

He rests his head against her couch. Pause.

MARIA Did you like my story before?

DAVID It was depressing, really, I guess mostly.

MARIA There is a different part of it. Maybe will be more interesting to you. Can I say it?

DAVID Okay?

MARIA I tell you. When the war finish, people come back to Krasnystaw, you know, people who survive, very few. And a girl—my age—she come back and she see me in the town.

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