“I appreciate your suggestion, Mum, but I don’t want to cartoon a cat. I’ve been thinking that I would like to do a cartoon about…..”
“….. Love.”
Maintaining One’s Position
….I don’t know why you won’t make a cartoon about a cat. Do you remember we’d go to the pictures and Smutty would be waiting for us outside the cinema when we came out?
“I don’t remember … I think I was too young. I do remember him liking to sit on the white line in the middle of the road, though.”
“But Mum … I’m still not making a cartoon about a cat.”
Declining Advice
“Mum … I don’t think I want to make a cartoon about a cat.” Why ever not? I would.
“I didn’t think you were particularly fond of cats.” I don’t know what you’re talking about. We used to have a cat. You remember Smutty, don’t you?
“Of course I remember him. But that’s not the point, Mum…”
He was a very good ratter. We used to lend him out.
The Limiting Nature Of Advice
I don’t understand why you just can’t get on with it? Make a film, I mean.
It’s easy peasy. You could make one about a …
… a CAT. See. There’s a good idea. Everyone likes cats.
All you’ve got to do is think up the story and make the film …
Feeling Better
Do you feel better about it now?
“Better about what?”
The animating. Now you’ve done some more of it.
“Er… No. Not Really.”
Blimey.
Where I Have Been
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Eating The Simple Things In Life
Mmom…mom. Nicecrumpep. Iwoubntmimeannubberwun …
“Pardon?”
I said: “Nice crumpet. I wouldn’t mind another one.” Though, I’ve been thinking. You know how you always say I am your long dead mother who is a part of you?
“Yes?”
Well, so … which of us is eating the crumpet?
