By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 6 April 2000
SCENE 73
SCENE 73-INT.-Becca's truck. Night. Becca is driving
down The Strip. Her eyes are wide as she takes in all the
neon...the Luxor on the left and the MGM Grand on the right.
Papaw is laughing.
Music is still "Whiskey Trip" by Gary Stewart.
Papaw: You look like you're having a religious experience,
my girl.
Becca: God, aren't you? Just look at it! Those lights...all
the colors! It's like we're Over the Rainbow! It's like Oz!
The Emerald City!
Papaw: Yeah, the Emerald City with hookers and homeless people
holding up signs that say Lost Everything in a Slot Machine.
Will Work for Tacos.
Becca: Please leave me to my illusions. They're all I have.
Papaw: Just look at the green eyes on that monstrous lion.
Good god. Any minute now I expect flyin' monkeys to crap on
our heads.
Becca: I have tears in my eyes...I am so moved, so awed, so
absolutely blown away that I have tears in my eyes...and
you're makin' jokes.
Papaw: I'm sorry, honey. You're amazed and I'm appalled.
I'll keep my mouth shut and leave you to your visual orgasm.
Becca: Thank you.
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