You're Going to Get the Hiccups

Steph, David, and Luke are lying on the  bed. Steph and David are reading. Luke, between them, is tearing small holes in his blanket.

Steph (giggles):  Hey, listen to this. (She reads aloud from  Woody Allen's "Hassidic Tales, With a Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar" in Fierce Pajamas.)

Man does not bring on his own unhappiness, and suffering is really God's will, although why he gets such a kick out of it is beyond me.

David and Steph laugh. Luke, exchanging twinkling knowing looks with first Steph and then David, laughs loudly -- and convincingly -- too.

Luke (stops laughing and pauses. Then): That isn't really funny.

David and Steph laugh harder.

Luke: It isn't. It's not funny!

Steph: No, you're right. It isn't.

David and Steph laugh harder.

Luke: You're going to get the hiccups.

Comments

[Barbara]

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Barbara

[kittenpie]

Well, the idea of god planning suffering might not be funny, but that was. Perceptive fellow you have there!