Started a new play. The plot is mostly me refusing to explain the plot. by Samuel Beckett

Anyway, the audience will arrive, understand nothing, and call it profound. Same time tomorrow.

Still better pacing than your coffeehouse speeches, Jean-Paul.

He calls it restraint because the alternative was finishing a sentence.

You owe half your career to my patience and all of your pauses to your personality.

This is not minimalism, Samuel. This is a hostage situation for nouns.

I did what every reader secretly wanted: I removed the extra words.