The Table Will Crack - An Encore

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Every once in a while I remember something I've written, and go through to see if there's room for improvement.  As usual, there was, so I have made those changes and offer it once again.  I think it works here on Section VII, a possible scene from Season 2, perhaps...
The opening and closing quotations are from The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
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Dialog - 
Susan: [reading the dictionary] "Gastrovascular"... Come on, Peter. "Gastrovascular". 
Peter: Is it Latin? 
Susan: Yes.
Edmund: Is it Latin for "worst game ever invented"? 
[Susan shuts her dictionary] 
Lucy: We could play hide and seek. 
Peter: [sarcastically] But we're already having so much fun"

~~~~~:

The Table Will Crack

It wasn't unusual to find them together, both of them fascinated by the strangely seductive power each one held over the other. He sat at his perch atop morality's highest pinnacle of altruism and self-sacrifice that was the U.N.C.L.E. ; conversely, she was in the shallow end of the stream where greed and megalomania were personified in the organization known as THRUSH. Uncharacteristically, they were each drawn to those qualities in the other that most epitomized the antithesis of who and what they were, or the goals after which they so energetically chased.

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The Table Will Crack - An Encore

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Every once in a while I remember something I've written, and go through to see if there's room for improvement.  As usual, there was, so I have made those changes and offer it once again.  I think it works here on Section VII, a possible scene from Season 2, perhaps...
The opening and closing quotations are from The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
~~~~~:


Dialog - 
Susan: [reading the dictionary] "Gastrovascular"... Come on, Peter. "Gastrovascular". 
Peter: Is it Latin? 
Susan: Yes.
Edmund: Is it Latin for "worst game ever invented"? 
[Susan shuts her dictionary] 
Lucy: We could play hide and seek. 
Peter: [sarcastically] But we're already having so much fun"

~~~~~:

The Table Will Crack

It wasn't unusual to find them together, both of them fascinated by the strangely seductive power each one held over the other. He sat at his perch atop morality's highest pinnacle of altruism and self-sacrifice that was the U.N.C.L.E. ; conversely, she was in the shallow end of the stream where greed and megalomania were personified in the organization known as THRUSH. Uncharacteristically, they were each drawn to those qualities in the other that most epitomized the antithesis of who and what they were, or the goals after which they so energetically chased.

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