Friday, April 9, 2021

Dead Butlers, Page 2

PAGE TWO

Panel 1
A handsome young actor kissing a beautiful woman on a movie screen in a darkened theater, with the heads of audience members visible.

CAPTION: To even begin to live up to everything you were, Jerome, it would take a legion.

CAPTION: The actor.

Panel 2
A soldier running through a forest. None of the individuals in these panels should look similar. They can vary in age, ethnicity, skin color, nationality. It’s kind of the whole point.

CAPTION: The soldier.

Panel 3
A young butler servicing his charge.

CAPTION: Butler to Hemingway’s father.

Panel 4
An older butler with a young boy.

CAPTION: Butler to the young Hemingway, a father, really, after the death of his parents.

Panel 5
A butler dusting a large room in a mansion setting.

CAPTION: Caretaker of an entire mansion.

Panel 6
A chef at work in a kitchen. What kind of kitchen and what kind of chef are at your discretion.

CAPTION: Preparer of every meal, for Hemingway, for me.

Panel 7
A butler with a serving tray at a large party of elite guests.

CAPTION: Host to the cream of society.

Panel 8
A man sitting at a computer.

CAPTION: Indispensable assistant to the Ferryman, and Soul, to me.

Panel 9
A dashing full-masked hero, sort of Errol Flynn Robin Hood.

CAPTION: And somehow, the Insider, the hero’s hero, seldom acknowledged.

CAPTION: The very best of us.

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