The Dark Half Page #4

Come on, you guys. Let's go.

Thad, will you grab my purse, please?

- Yeah.

- OK. All right.

All right, I got the diaper bag.

- You've got a terrific getaway.

- Thank you.

- (doorbell)

- Oh, excuse me.

We can never get up here. When Thad's

teaching, we have to stay in the city.

Trudy, thanks for coming over.

- Did they take pictures of the little ones?

- No.

Good. Kidnappers around, you know.

They might see a picture,

it might give 'em some ideas.

They're not gonna take

pictures of the kids.

Not while I'm around they won't.

These men make a mess, don't they?

- Well...

- Come on, let's go upstairs.

I'm doin' a series of photographs.

You... you might be interested in this.

Photographs of teddy bears.

Lyin' in coffins!

I wanna make 'em into a book.

The final perfect comment

on the American way of... death.

All this folderol we put ourselves through.

Hate funerals. Hate any kind of folderol.

I'll show it to you when it's done.

Who knows?

Maybe you'd like to... write the text.

Not much of a view.

If I had a window in here I think

I'd just sit and stare at the lake all day.

This is where George Stark

came into being. Right here in this room.

- I noticed the old typewriter.

- Yeah, I've had that since I was a boy.

- I still use it. George doesn't.

- You're kidding.

No. George doesn't hold with typewriters.

George uses one of these.

From day one, he's used these.

You really are serious?

Dead serious. It's the truth.

- Was it hard to get George started?

- No.

One evening I was just sitting here.

I picked up one of these pencils.

Before I knew it, I'd written 16 pages

without a single scratch-out.

It was like George just...

...woke up and started to talk.

You'II, uh... forgive me for noting...

...but these behaviours

could be interpreted...

...as classic symptoms of schizophrenia.

Yes, I'll forgive you for noting that.

I don't think George would, though.

I don't think George would like any of this,

Mr Donaldson.

This isn't George's idea of a fun morning.

In fact, I think it's safe to say that George

would want your balls for breakfast.

- Thaddeus. Elizabeth.

- Hi, Digger.

I hope you don't mind crazy Homer.

- He wants to set up a fake tombstone.

- A fake tombstone?

"You don't want to go

walkin' on the dead" I says.

"Make sure you use an empty plot

where nobody's buried. "

Then I remembered

"Thad Beaumont owns one"...

...that your daddy bought for you over here

near where your ma and pa is buried.

So I said "Why don't you use that?"

So, I hope you don't mind.

This is where Homer is settin' up.

GEORGE STARK 1985-1991

GEEN AARDIGE vEN

This was my idea. I was takin' pictures

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