In which Marilyn is confronted by an untenable situation but decides to make the best of it. The Reptile Kings of Xanku had, with a burst of their all too frequent capacity for increasing the difficulty of already difficult situations, insisted that not only did Marilyn wear the truly absurd super-heroine costume for the upcoming mission against the Brain Eaters, but that the wholly incongruous garment should be initiated and energized in a ritual ceremony to be performed in front the Xanku I-Corps, who, as far as Marilyn was concerned, resembled nothing more than a scaly crowd of belly-slithering, illiterate sociopaths, seemingly high on cheap energy-enhancing chemical products. As if this wasn’t bad enough, she had only discovered that the accursed outfit was topless just minutes before the start of the festivities at which she had clearly been promised as the star attraction. Under more normal circumstances, she would have dug in her heels and refused to go any further with the charade. The Reptile Kings of Xanku were, however, a crucial – if less than reliable – segment of The Grand Alliance, and, in the interests of the mission, she decided to play along. As she told herself while she smiled her widest, most engaging, if secretly mocking smile, gripped her power-sword, and raised the costume’s vision-mask, it wasn’t the first time she had stood topless in the presence of loathsome snakes.
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8 comments:
got a good one for you:
http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/images/2007/12/05/marilyn_monroe_eve_arnold.jpg
when's the Marilyn book coming out?
23.42pm New Year's Eve and I'm on call (and at bay) in the recesses of the kitchen with my laptop whilst my eldest celebrates his 18th with 60 friends (+ an additional 500 or so via Facebook). The level of noise is trancendental - and I thought, hey,good moment to wish the Doc, Finn, Marilyn, Uncle Bill and all you fellow travellers a happy 2009. Have a good one - if I last until daybreak, I intend to have one too.
wv=marranga
Hey Mark, thanks for the thought, but see last November 16th...
And I'd love to do a book of Marilyn's adventures, but everyone tells me the fees for the photos would be prohibitive.
Then do the book as a bootleg.
WV = liont
what about drawings of the pictures?
Then some alterations could even be made to suit the text better.
Or you could just use it for a new episode: the ghost of Marilyn is kidnapped by the copyright army of the Greedheads from Alpha 42.
WV is cativank.
I dunno. A number of people have suggested that the pictures could be redrawn, but I shy away from the idea. I think the essential and dynamic is that the photos are actually real and then the whole ludicrous and disjointed story line is imposed on them. I continue to think.
yep, you very right.
wv: TENTES
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