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Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

(Make sure you’re properly caught up, as we had a post skip accidentally last week, and I went back and inserted it in its proper place. Preceding this post, these should be read in this order:
So Alive
Putting on the Ritz (the skipped one that popped up briefly in the wrong place)
Strangelove
Debaser)

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The next morning there were two days left until Ziggy’s program ended, and breakfast turned into a pep talk for Jonathan. We had his agent on speakerphone.

“Honestly, Jonathan,” she said. “If anything your problem in Hollywood is that you’ll always be the smartest guy in the room. I’ve seen the pages you faxed. You’re doing great. They love you. They think it’s novel and interesting that you’re invested in the character development arcs.”

“But how am I going to tell them that we’re going to kill off one of the main characters?”

“You have to sell it as literature. The whole concept here is that we’re bringing the Great American Novel to television, right? I mean, tell me about this death, is it a huge downer?”