Picasso at the Lapin Agile By Steve Martin
Picasso at the Lapin Agile By Steve Martin
Picasso at the Lapin Agile By Steve Martin
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<strong>Picasso</strong>: Millions and millions of stars.<br />
Einstein: You‘re way low.<br />
Visitor: It‘s night. I didn‘t know it was night, you know, <strong>the</strong> time<br />
traveling thing. I arrive, I don‘t know if it‘s lunch or dinner or wh<strong>at</strong>.<br />
I‘ve put on eighteen pounds. Hoping to take it off when I go back.<br />
Einstein: I‘m going to get a new suit. When I present my paper, I‘d<br />
like to be wearing a suit.<br />
<strong>Picasso</strong>: I wonder wh<strong>at</strong> I‘ll be wearing when I paint it?<br />
Visitor: I‘d like something white with a big belt. (Then:) Did you see<br />
th<strong>at</strong>?<br />
Einstein: Shooting star. They hit <strong>the</strong> <strong>at</strong>mosphere and burn white.<br />
<strong>Picasso</strong>: I‘d like to leave a long trail. A long string of fire.<br />
Einstein: From <strong>the</strong> horizon.<br />
Visitor: Whoosh!<br />
<strong>Picasso</strong>: So bright th<strong>at</strong> when you look away, you can still see it<br />
against your eyes.<br />
Einstein: I would like th<strong>at</strong> . . . a retention of a vision.<br />
Visitor: I would like to have it too, although I don‘t know wh<strong>at</strong><br />
you‘re talking about.<br />
<strong>Picasso</strong>: I hope I don‘t die young.<br />
Einstein: Me too.<br />
(The VISITOR gulps.)<br />
<strong>Picasso</strong>: Are you dead.<br />
Visitor: Pretty much.
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