Sound inside

The Sound Inside 8/23/19 14
BELLA(to AUDIENCE)
I remind him that we don’t have class until Thursday. It’s only Monday.
CHRISTOPHER During office hours then. Will you be here?
BELLA
From one to four pm.
(to AUDIENCE)
I ask him to please set up a proper appointment through the online
departmental calendar.
CHRISTOPHER Can’t we just do that now?
BELLA
I really think you should be following the ground rules here.
CHRISTOPHER All these fucking rules.
BELLA
Whether you like it or not, Christopher, a big part of higher education is
learning how to play the game properly.
CHRISTOPHER Yeah, maybe this game’s just not for me.
BELLA(to AUDIENCE)
I tell him that a lot of kids would kill to have his spot at Yale.
CHRISTOPHER FUCKING GESTAPO INTERNET CALENDARS AND DRACONIAN EMAIL
ORGIES AND TWITTER-OBSESSED PLUTOCRAT PROFESSORS WHO GET OFF
ON BEING ENSLAVED BY THE ENCEPHALITIC PROCEDURAL GARGOYLES
FROM THE DEAN’S OFFICE! GO BULLDOGS!
A beat.
BELLA
You feel better now?
CHRISTOPHER IT’S ENOUGH TO GIVE YOUR AVERAGE FRESHMAN WHITE BOY
DIGITAL CHLAMYDIA!
BELLA(to AUDIENCE)
In my calmest, most assured voice I ask him to please stop shouting. I add
that if he’d care to take a gander at my bi-weekly Yale University paystub he
would see that I’m far from the realm of plutocrats. And then, finally, I
suggest that if he has