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INVISIBLES 3:6 missing dialogue Below is the original script page for THE INVISIBLES VOLUME 3: 6. The drawn and printed version which appeared in the December 99 issue has missing dialogue. The dialogue appears here in its intended form for the first time.
PAGE 13 Frame 1 Back to India. King Mob and Edith are having a last supper and the next two pages take place as they eat and drink amidst the sumptuous surroundings of the Clark's Varanasi. Candles everywhere. The fan turning lazily. Itıs clear that itıs Edith's birthday - big birthday cake and candles and a couple of cards, whatever. Maintain the birthday atmosphere. CAP.: VARANASI, INDIA: EDITH: ...THE KEY TO IT ALL WAS BILLY CHANG, IN THE END. EDITH: IT'S ALL IN MY MEMOIR; SCANDAL AFTER SCANDAL.
Frame 2 Circle in as King Mob pours Edith a glass of champagne. She has a tiny portion on her plate but there's still a sense of abundance with tons of Indian Thali stuff on the table. Like the Indian down the road but classy. Edith raises her hand. Dope smoke drifts languidly of course. EDITH: THERE WAS SOME BEASTLY BUSINESS IN 1924 WHEN HE WAS LOCKED AWAY FOR OVER A YEAR IN WORMWOOD SCRUBS. EDITH: THEY DEPORTED HIM IN THE END, FROM ALBERT DOCKS... EDITH: ENOUGH! ENOUGH!
Frame 3 King Mob pours a glass for himself, looking at it. Edith takes a sniff of her glass. EDITH: I HAVEN'T HAD A DRINK SINCE 19...69! EDITH: NOW BILLY...OF COURSE WE TENDED TO ROMANTICISE THE CHINESE IN THOSE DAYS; THEY SEEMED SO DECADENT AND DEEP BUT BILLY WAS A VERY STRANGE AND REMARKABLE MAN. KING MOB: AND ?..
Frame 4 KM looks up, fork in hand. Ambience of ragas and sitars. EDITH: HE VANISHED IN THE END, YOU SEE. THERE WERE RUMORS THAT HE'D DIED DEAF, BLIND AND PENNILESS BUT... EDITH: THAT WASN'T IT AT ALL. KING MOB: MAYBE I'LL JUST READ IT. KING MOB: WHY DOES THIS BIRTHDAY HAVE A LAST SUPPER AMBIENCE ?
Frame 5 Edith gestures to the camera on the table as though ignoring KM. He takes a bite. EDITH: TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH. EDITH: I'VE BEEN DOING A GREAT DEAL OF THINKING AND WHAT I'VE COME TO IS THIS. EDITH: AMID ALL THE BANGS AND THE DRAMA AND THE GRAND PASSIONS, IT'S KINDNESS AND JUST ORDINARY GOODNESS THAT STANDS OUT IN THE END.
If there's anyone from the Nexus reading this, feel free to pass this page over to the Barbelith Underground for archiving. The trade paperback edition of Volume 3 will have a fully restored text. Billy 'Brilliant' Chang is both a higher-dimensional midwife occupying a timesuit and a real person. His fascinating story can be followed into 'Dope Girls: the Birth of the British Drug Underground' by Marek Kohn (http://www.ukcia.org/lib/dgirls/contents.htm)
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