What should you do today?
- Place Chekov’s gun on the mantelpiece.
- Walk into a hard-boiled detective’s office.
- Explain to a youth that they must go on a quest into a terrible land to fulfill a prophecy.
- Create something new and terrible in your shuttered laboratory and give birth to an evil laugh.
- Be the man who knows what he should not.
- Move to a new school and wonder if you will ever make a friend.
- Sign on to a ship’s crew.
- Step out of the stagecoach, and tell the boy, “I’m the new sheriff.”
- Enter the drawing room, gather the suspects around you, and announce you have determined the murderer’s identity.
- Walk the ancient, hallowed halls and wonder if you will ever be a knight.
Sit yourself down and tell your waiting listeners, “Once upon a time…”
–Bill Burns