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The Sound Inside 10/16/19 27CHRISTOPHER Sorry.BELLAYou can ask me something else.Awkward pause.CHRISTOPHER Why aren’t you with anybody?BELLAI guess I’ve always held on to this very simple idea that someday I would finda partner who I could read with. Someone I could lie beside in bed on Sundaymornings, our limbs intertwined. We’re both lost in a great novel. Somethingby James Baldwin or Denis Johnson. Lynda Barry. We laugh secretly toourselves. And we’re comfortable enough with our life that we allow thissecrecy. Because loving a book is kind of like having an affair, after all.CHRISTOPHER That sounds like writing.BELLAOkay. At some point I guess I just stopped liking people.CHRISTOPHER rises and exits to the bathroom.BELLA(to AUDIENCE)Christopher gets up to go to the bathroom. As he walks away I find that hisyouth is, well, jarring. Our age difference is like an enormous cast iron pothanging from the ceiling.I’m suddenly struck by the notion of how one becomes remote in one’s ownlife. Like a forgotten object on a shelf. I am a lamp. I am a letter opener.A piece of minor archaeology.How the years suddenly tumble on you.CHRISTOPHER returns from the bathroom.CHRISTOPHER In your Sunday morning romantic partner fantasy you repeatedly use aneutral pronoun.BELLAAre you asking if I’m a lesbian? I’m like thirty-two percent, thirty-two pointfive percent lesbian.CHRISTOPHER can’t answer.BELLAWhat about you?
The Sound Inside 9/17/19 28CHRISTOPHER I’m twelve point five percent lesbian. Just kidding. There was this girl in highschool. She was in my humanities class. We dated for a bit. Attended a coupleof seminal school dances. It was pretty cool for a few months. But sheeventually dumped me for a thirty-four-year-old South American masseusewith dreads and a Lexus.BELLAThat sounds like writing.CHRISTOPHER Sorry. Her name was Evelyn. Evelyn Boyer. She played the piano. She hadpretty hands.BELLAPretty Hands Evelyn. Did you—CHRISTOPHER Yeah, Evelyn popped my cherry. And then we followed that up with a handfulof semi-chaste erotic experiences, but I think she got bored. I’m pretty sureevery time we tried to have sex we were wearing ultra-festive holidaysweaters.BELLAI was actually going to ask you if you loved her.CHRISTOPHER We mostly played chess and watched "Mystery Science Theater 3,000”.Awkward pause.CHRISTOPHER I’m about as sexually inclined as your standard, run-of-the-mill parkingmeter…Another awkward pause.CHRISTOPHER I sort of don’t even like being touched, actually.A silence.CHRISTOPHER Thank you for dinner and the wine.Bella exits and returns with a pillow and a blanket.BELLAThank you for the conversation.BELLA(to AUDIENCE)And then he does that.He reaches up and touches her face.
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