SCENE 1
EXT. COROVA-NEU H.I.G.H. SCHOOL, DAY. The BUILDING is enormous, taking up an entire CITY BLOCK. The design echoes Arthur Snyers, and borrows architectural references from 'La Parfaite Intelligence et l'Etoile Reunies.' ZEPPELINS circle above the CITY, like so many BIRDS. SPINDLE-BLUSTS and PANELVANGERS zip along the HIGH TENSION WIRES which cris-cros the city like a fisherman's net.
TRANSPORT BOXES click along guided street rails at the corner of 01001101.9th STREET and VANDERBILT THOROUGHFARE in NEU-CITY. The scene is MODERN: GLASS and STEEL buildings in the style of ART-DECO and EGYPTIAN REVIVAL are planted amongst shrubs of out-dated 21st century tract housing, like patches of dying of grass.
The leaden report of a diesel engine backfiring through the soot encrusted, dilapidated neu-neu-deal neighborhood gives the HOUSE OF INTEGRATED GENERATION HABILITATION the air of an eminence gris.
A small, utilitarian TRANSPORT BOX weaves its way out of the stream of traffic. DANIEL WUNDER, 27, crusty, sleepy, slowly rolls out of the passenger side of the TRANSPORT BOX. His clothes are wrinkled and his PRINCE EDWARD PETTICOAT has SPOTTED DICK STAINS on the lapels and NAPOLEONIC COLLAR. He adjusts his MONOCLE and lets out a deep sigh.
GLOCK WUNDER, 57, springs like a LAPIN AGILE out of the driver's side. His MACRO CEPHALIC CRANIUM is florid and taught, and there is a twinkle in his eye which evidences strong influences of what EUGENICISTS of the FUTURE will come to identify as the IRISH PUCK gene.
DANIEL WUNDER
I daresay we've gone a little too far in the T.Box and landed ourselves aright 300 years ago near Christ S'pital fields. Watch out, father! Jack the Ripper still about!
GLOCK WUNDER
Ah, you're talking I thought you're spleen'ad ruptured on account of the bile and stench coming from your beer'ole. Asides - Happy Jack only killed protties.
DANIEL WUNDER
I know, give heed.
GLOCK WUNDER
Easy now. Long live the Queen.
DANIEL WUNDER
Long Live the Queen.
GLOCK WUNDER
Thank Lord, 112 years ago we have been returned to the warm embrace of our Sovereign. Did you procure the VIEWDISCS I required from T.L.A. Oscar Wilde?
DANIEL WUNDER
(taking a pinch from his snuffbox)
Indeed.
SCENE 2
INT. COROVA-NEU H.I.G.H.SCHOOL EDIFICATION ROOM #41.369
DANIEL stands at the head of the classroom, the desks are black steel with a VIEWDISPLAY embedded in the desktop just beneath a dermis of smudged, dirty, translucent plastic. The Edification Room is festooned with portraits of MARGARET SANGER, ALEISTER CROWLEY, JOHN DEE, and QUEEN ELIZABETH I & II. Behind the INSTRUCTOR SCRIM, which looks like a slightly opaque muslin drop in lieu of a traditional, antiquated, obsolete blackboard of the 20th and 21st century. TWO HISTORICAL EPOCHS are depicted above the SCRIM in the form of two LEGENDS. The first one shows pictures of CIVIL WAR and STRIFE, the color scheme is comprised of secondary and tertiary colors. There are hints of CUBIST and SURREALIST techniques, a la Picasso's Guernica, and images of the Founding Fathers, John Jay, Abraham Lincoln, etc...The Legend reads "1776-2076: THE THREE HUNDRED YEAR DIVORCE". THE SECOND LEGEND READS "THE RECRIMINATION PERIOD: 2076 - " and depicts a divinely ordered pyramidal structure, replete with the QUEEN, LORDS, VASSALS, SERFS, and NOBLEMEN.
THE STUDENTS, aged 14-17, are in varied states of BOREDOM, FRUSTRATION, UNCONSCIOUSNESS, and HOSTILITY. Beneath the constant electric hum of the PEDAGOGICAL EQUIPMENT there is the sussuration of profanities and chatter. The volume is variable, sometimes increasing, sometimes decreasing but never ceasing altogether.
THREE STUDENTS who are especially vocal are sitting in the back row of desks. They are GRINK, 16, HOHGLE, 15, and DODO, 16.
GRINK
Ga'Pen
HOHGLE
Nah, ah ain't got pen.
DODO
You got pen?
GRINK
Need a pen.
HOHGLE
Need a pen too.
DODO
Who got a pen?
GRINK
Why you need a pen?
HOHGLE
Why YOU need a pen?
DODO
WHO got a PEN?
GRINK
I oh no.
HOHGLE
I ohno neevuh.
DODO
WHO GOT A PEN?
GRINK
Whatchoo doon needa pen?
HOHGLE
I ohno.
DODO
Just need it.
GRINK
Yall cain ryte.
HOHGLE
Yeah, yall cain ryte Doh.
DODO
I caintoo ry.
GRINK
Yo Hoh he said "I caintoo ry" he was all-
HOHGLE
-yeah he was all-
DODO
fuck yall motha fu-
GRINK
Ry-did-down Dodo, rydid down.
HOHGLE
Yeah rydid down Dodo, rydid down
DODO
(calling to the front of the room)
GLOCK JUNIOR, HOH & G is messin' with me yo, give them sankslips, sankslip'em GLOCK!
WUNDER JUNIOR is slightly flummoxed, but not surprised by the outburst from DODO. DANIEL WUNDER produces THREE SANCTION SLIPS FROM HIS WORK BLOC. A certain level of constant disruption is the normative operating condition, but once in a while the THREE WISE MEN, manage to disrupt the disruption, as it were.
INT. COROVA-NEU H.I.G.H.SCHOOL EDIFICATION ROOM #41.369
DANIEL stands at the head of the classroom, the desks are black steel with a VIEWDISPLAY embedded in the desktop just beneath a dermis of smudged, dirty, translucent plastic. The Edification Room is festooned with portraits of MARGARET SANGER, ALEISTER CROWLEY, JOHN DEE, and QUEEN ELIZABETH I & II. Behind the INSTRUCTOR SCRIM, which looks like a slightly opaque muslin drop in lieu of a traditional, antiquated, obsolete blackboard of the 20th and 21st century. TWO HISTORICAL EPOCHS are depicted above the SCRIM in the form of two LEGENDS. The first one shows pictures of CIVIL WAR and STRIFE, the color scheme is comprised of secondary and tertiary colors. There are hints of CUBIST and SURREALIST techniques, a la Picasso's Guernica, and images of the Founding Fathers, John Jay, Abraham Lincoln, etc...The Legend reads "1776-2076: THE THREE HUNDRED YEAR DIVORCE". THE SECOND LEGEND READS "THE RECRIMINATION PERIOD: 2076 - " and depicts a divinely ordered pyramidal structure, replete with the QUEEN, LORDS, VASSALS, SERFS, and NOBLEMEN.
THE STUDENTS, aged 14-17, are in varied states of BOREDOM, FRUSTRATION, UNCONSCIOUSNESS, and HOSTILITY. Beneath the constant electric hum of the PEDAGOGICAL EQUIPMENT there is the sussuration of profanities and chatter. The volume is variable, sometimes increasing, sometimes decreasing but never ceasing altogether.
THREE STUDENTS who are especially vocal are sitting in the back row of desks. They are GRINK, 16, HOHGLE, 15, and DODO, 16.
GRINK
Ga'Pen
HOHGLE
Nah, ah ain't got pen.
DODO
You got pen?
GRINK
Need a pen.
HOHGLE
Need a pen too.
DODO
Who got a pen?
GRINK
Why you need a pen?
HOHGLE
Why YOU need a pen?
DODO
WHO got a PEN?
GRINK
I oh no.
HOHGLE
I ohno neevuh.
DODO
WHO GOT A PEN?
GRINK
Whatchoo doon needa pen?
HOHGLE
I ohno.
DODO
Just need it.
GRINK
Yall cain ryte.
HOHGLE
Yeah, yall cain ryte Doh.
DODO
I caintoo ry.
GRINK
Yo Hoh he said "I caintoo ry" he was all-
HOHGLE
-yeah he was all-
DODO
fuck yall motha fu-
GRINK
Ry-did-down Dodo, rydid down.
HOHGLE
Yeah rydid down Dodo, rydid down
DODO
(calling to the front of the room)
GLOCK JUNIOR, HOH & G is messin' with me yo, give them sankslips, sankslip'em GLOCK!
WUNDER JUNIOR is slightly flummoxed, but not surprised by the outburst from DODO. DANIEL WUNDER produces THREE SANCTION SLIPS FROM HIS WORK BLOC. A certain level of constant disruption is the normative operating condition, but once in a while the THREE WISE MEN, manage to disrupt the disruption, as it were.
SCENE 3
To Be Continued.
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