Her handwriting looks like it could be used for close-ups in the movies. It’s fluid and legible but it’s not perfect. It looks like it’s written by a real person.
She writes a lot. Mostly note cards to people after shows or dinner parties. She has a reputation for her old-school, mannered ways. She is a favored guest of many. No one knows of her affliction; the condition of finding the perfect retort after the fact, usually long after. Long after she’s gotten home, washed her face and made some tea. Sometimes the perfect retort comes well after she’s read a chapter and turns out the bedside light. It isn’t only retorts, it’s any observation or compliment she wishes she’d shared during the night.
She writes them down immediately in the notebook by her bed and later transcribes them into notecards she stockpiles from Marshalls. When she isn’t under pressure she has quite a way with words.
trepsverter: yiddish meaning “step words”; the perfect retort that you don’t think of until you
re walking away and down the stairs.
8 min on 8.9.13 @ The Canteen/TIFF
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