Do you accept, Harper?

Accept?

        Will you be prophet, seer        oracle?

Please don't call me that        Harper         it is maddening.

        Mad is what you will become

        if you refuse your destiny.

        Mad you have been before - yes?

Yes.

        And it was...

Soul-destroying.  Devastating.   Twin Towerish.

        Twin Towers?

Never mind.

        Yes, well and now it is time.

        Are you Harper or madman?

Harper begins weeping disconsolately.

Everything is so hard         and I am only         human

one...         man.

        One is all that is needed.

Or one.....         woman?

        One         

        woman?

Harper raises shaking hands

tears open buttoned shirt revealing                         breasts.

        Ah!

        Hum.

        Now that

        ................................

        that        IS         interesting

                                                        and most unexpected.