Trash compactor excerpt

“I saw you once before. In Dr. Wax, the record store on Sherman Avenue.” She spoke hesitatingly, knowing that she was admitting something that some might use against her. It was a confession.

He was intrigued. How could he have missed seeing her? She had known him before they met. She had watched him from afar. That crafty bitch. That sexually appealing stalker. That perfectly innocent voyeur. He tried to imagine the scenario. How did it go down? What stupid clearance priced CD distracted him from turning his head and focusing his eyes on the beauty who was at that very moment looking at him? He did find a used copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind there once for under two dollars, but even that tasty deal wasn’t worth missing a glance at Belarus Sweetbiscuit. Besides, that copy didn’t have the hidden track on it. He didn’t even realize that there was a hidden track until Wheabus told him about it months later. Here’s another question. What goes on in that mind of hers? How and what does she think? All that he had to go on was what she presented to him and what his own ridiculously inept mind could piece together. His own mental processes, if they could be put into visual form for the edification of a general audience (like, say, the tourists at a freaks and oddities museum), would very closely if not exactly look like that trash compactor in Star Wars. More specifically, when the camera focuses on the surface of the water after the creature has pulled Luke under. That is some nasty shit right there. And there are weird things floating on it, like little barf textured Styrofoam blocks or something. That barf textured Styrofoam block is a conscious thought in Aias Anterograde’s head. The brown water is the subconscious. I’m not sure what the creature is. Maybe you could make the case that the creature is the manifestation of his emotional faculty. Without warning, it will slither around unseen, poke an eye stalk up briefly, then skitter around some more. Then, all of a sudden, it wraps a tentacle around your hero and drags him below, drowning him in hot dog and rotten egg yolk flavored liquid. Little known fact. George Lucas actually used Aias Anterograde’s psychoanalyst’s session notes, transcribed them word for word into his shooting script, and filmed these words exactly as written. The end result was the trash compactor scene. The only change Lucas made, in a bid to make the film more “commercial”, was to have the heroes actually escape the room before being crushed to death.