Wilson by David Mamet

Author:David Mamet [Mamet, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000, FIC019000
ISBN: 9781468302325
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2012-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

The Timesheets

The Timesheets: A Timely Surprise

An interpolation – “The Events of That Day” – from Lais of the Fantasist

As we here deviate from the traditional arrangement1 it is perhaps not inappropriate2 to improve upon the unexpected intermission with the injection of an “olio.”

To begin: may we not address that phrase, so oft used as to’ve become (a) part of the language, and (b) wellnigh invisible: “these few slim volumes.” To what did this originally refer?

Most would immediately respond “the Diaries” – but they are wrong.

The phrase, though first penned by their “discoverer,” refers not to the Diaries, but to the, to him, far more precious artefacts, the Timesheets.

Did Krauz (fils), indeed, have access to the Timesheets, you may riposte, and would, in so doing, place and mark yourself as belonging to the mainstream of Traditional Exegetic Thought.

He did.

“Defend your thesis,” you respond.

I will.

Let us cast our imaginations back to the Mud Pond, in that period directly before it received its name.

I will ask you to picture ducks, geese, swallows, the occasional coot or “grebe,” a “loon,” perhaps, if this is not to overtax your imagination, the odd rowboat, skiff or dory, a green slime upon the water’s surface which, in my youth, was known as “whale vomit,” but which is, of course, algae. Reeds you may, in your mind’s eye, find along the marge, which merge, as we mount up the bank, into a dense grass skirting what is now the Mall. We see a man’s face, gazing, to the east, over the pond, in his hand a magazine or “book.”3

I now ask you to review (not to question, never to question, solely to review) the Events of That Day – freely, easily, as they come to you. The Coffee and Roll; the Lady who was so Rude; the Bus and the Bus Transfer; the odd cast of the sky; the gate; the Timeclock; the Second Cup …

Now, hold this thought for one brief moment:

I have recited to myself all the Events

as they transpired on That Day.

What is that “nagging” feeling?4

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