AGE

We were told, in some playwriting class, that the single most important thing to decide upon when writing a character, was age. Then gender. But the character’s age would determine much of his dramatic arc. Then the other bit of wisdom, probably from Aristotle, was that character was destiny. There were all sorts of rules

Pinkie and the Brain

It began with dessert yesterday. I told the ex-boxer that we were having a brownie for dessert. But it wasn’t brown, it was a gooey chocolate thing that you needed a hacksaw to cut. He looked at it and said with absolute certainty: that’s not a brownie, it’s black. I replied that it was a