Night Gallery

zizokamal

good evening and welcome to a private

showing of three paintings displayed

here for the first time each is a

collector's item in its own way not

because of any special artistic quality

but because each captures on a canvas

suspends in time and space a frozen

moment of a nightmare

our initial offering a small gothic item

in black sand greatest a piece of the

past known as the family crypt this one

we call simply the cemetery offered to

you now six feet of earth and all that

it contains ladies and gentlemen this is

the Night Gallery

anything more you need mr. and ryx and

iMovie to the window sir for a few

minutes

Oh attack not so good today

it never is it much time sir well then

why do you load it up that way porta 4

that is wasteful porn avoid mr. Hendrix

doesn't complain mr. jeremy and he also

pays for it

tell me something Potter for during all

those 30 years you have been waiting

hand and foot on that dying blob of

flesh upstairs you didn't know there was

a nephew in the woodwork did you pour a

boil

nor did your uncle sir

well now you do so dwell on it

fortifying tell me something 44 when did

my uncle

Hey that one just before his last stroke

sir yeah which brings to question Porter

for not only my uncle's minimal talents

but also his somewhat morbid

preoccupation with all things dead and

dying cakes before several illnesses I

mean with all that money

what other intricity had besides

painting his painting has been his only

pleasure sir in the house it's all he's

cared for oh yeah I saw my dear late

mother used to tell me porta for if she

herself died at a relatively early age

from overwork and a surplus of pride she

couldn't bring herself to crawl across

to that rich recluse of a brother of

hers that was a long suit dignity as a

result I have spent a good deal of my

life for quantities for the good life

but somehow never acquiring the mean is

how sad sir oh it's only a passing

sadness for a boy

if he was my uncle's only indulgence I

anticipate a much more carefree

existence as of the day he stopped

staring at this particular point of view

and becomes a part of it why don't you

say with your thinking fortify I am a

scoundrel

am I not you're a swine sir

but refreshing candor well now you just

get that right out of your system you

hear porta Foy because as of the day I

take over here and you bear those

ancient fangs at me I'm gonna pull him

one by one

uncle uncle I've come to have a little

chat with you no siree you just sit

right there and you let me handle all

the conversation oh you know I have had

the most interesting one oh I have I

went to all the correspondents in your

desk yeah guess what I came across yet

correspondence yeah letters between you

and your lawyer having to do with having

to do with you will Oh uncle I tell you

I was really impressed by your literary

yes sir V cogent right right to the

point

mm-hmm I mean you say what you have to

say very impressed and as to the

contents more impressed me to discover

that you had made my mother your

beneficiary I tell you now that touched

me uncle I was deeply touched no now

what was the other thing yeah I wrote it

down right here that should she not be

alive he would go to her sole survivor

I'm not uncle can you believe me when I

tell you that when I read that I wept

and I actually wept oh what a good heart

what massive compassion is stuffy in

here isn't it yeah don't you think it's

toppy in here uncle

oh yeah I wouldn't call for porta for

uncle now really I wouldn't know why

disturb that old gentleman I mean he has

been waiting hand and foot on you for 30

years so why don't we just give him the

afternoon off no I have been told by

your medical advisors to keep you away

from drafts it seems that you are

susceptible to colds your perhaps even

your monia well now let us just put that

medical advice to the test shall we let

us see just how susceptible you are

Russian uncle oh that cold the wind is

that refreshing yeah and think of this

if you will uncle your last view of life

that family graveyard down there yeah

now you remember it well yeah drink it

all in uncle like a new tenant

investigating his new abode

well I shall leave you now undisturbed

in neither Portofino I shall come back

in this room for whoa let us say an hour

uncle or perhaps two however long it

takes however long it takes to simplify

things

Oh change doctor says he may remain in a

coma for some time pity

I've told you become acquainted with

certain aspects of the will only certain

aspects that were lying around loose and

unattended in my uncle's desk tell me

yeah

who told you of my comfort and discovery

a little bird little bird in a butler's

suit who should watch out that he

doesn't get his little beak smashed

however mr. Carson

seeing that my mother was the major

beneficiary and I am her sole survivor

but that would mean that everything

would come to me the man's not dead yet

do you suppose you might stifle those

great expectations of yours so the

body's cold mr. Henriques has passed on

ya never regained consciousness

may I claim my inheritance now would it

be too much trouble to first go through

the motions of a funeral and a

reasonable period of mourning is that a

legal requirement counselor let's say