Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Who's the Dada?!

Okay, time to get to a review of the second half of my fiction project, "Dada," from my literary blog The T. H. Miscellany.  Chris and Sam reach Sam's home near New York City.  Originally, it wasn't a mansion, just a regular four-bedroom, two-story house.  I made it larger as an enticement for Chris to want to stay.  It's probably too large now, so I might downsize it.  Really, eight plus bedrooms with a furnished attic and basement (both yet unseen).  What was I thinking?  Chris also doesn't explore the house at all the first day.  In fact, he foists Sam off on a neighbor so he can go on a date to a club closer to the city.  Wait, where did he find a date?  I hadn't decided, but I took it out because it made Chris too irresponsible.  I had only included it because I felt it would make a great moment when the book gets turned into a movie.  Just imagine, Chris and a woman are sitting in a round booth with mirrored sides.  As the camera pans from one to another, infinite reflections would cascade behind them.  A great looking moment, but it really wasn't fitting Chris.  Anyway, when he returns home, he crashes on the couch without even bothering to go upstairs to check on Sam.  I know, this made Chris a total creep and not the protagonist that he should be.  This would lead to a second day and night with Sam.  It is on the second day that Chris finally sees one of his father's films.  In the original plan,  Chris's father was either a direct student of Andy Warhol or one of his acolytes.  Remember, this story has been percolating from the late 90's, so this timeline was possible.  With a modern day setting, this would be impossible, but now Warhol is just an inspiration.  Furthermore, the film was slightly different.  While I've only posted a synopsis of the film, the main theme was the same:  three men spend a day fully aroused and no one notices or even cares.  The main differences are the lack of the art lesson (added only after I made the father an art professor, as well as to strengthen the connection of the possible meanings behind the title) and the final scene.  There had been no nudity in the original movie, making the audience's reaction even more shocking to Chris.  I previously mentioned, maybe, how I had a dream that helped develop Chris's own reaction.  Almost exactly copied from my dream.  Sam was at home again, being watched by a babysitter.  He would not see the film, yet.  Chris would return early, and he finally searches the upstairs.  The same situation with finding sheets occurs, leading to the discovery of the missing sister.  That time, Chris wakes Sam up without any embarrassing situations.  They have a late night talk, where Chris finally decides to take care of Sam.  And that was one of the possible endings leading into Part Two.  Wait, possible endings.  Part Two?!  That's right, not only was there going to be a second whole part that would add almost a third or more to the book but also I had other possible endings that weren't so neatly tied up. What were these endings?  Wait one more week, after I post the first installments of the next chapter, because those revelations are huge.  Once again, I post the icon pic.  it might not be the right one, but it is here.

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