… 🧑🏻: “Darling?…”

👱🏻‍♀️: “Yes, dear?”

🧑🏻: “I have to tell you something.”

👱🏻‍♀️: “Oh?… Really?… What’s that dear?”

🧑🏻: “I was talking with God again the other day.”

👱🏻‍♀️: “😐… Were you dear?”

🧑🏻: “Yes.”

👱🏻‍♀️: “ 🙄… And what was she saying this time?”

🧑🏻: “Oh, you know… this and that… but she did also tell me about what she’s going to tell Satan.”

👱🏻‍♀️: “ ?…? ”

👱🏻‍♀️: “? 🙄… And what‘s that dear ?”

🧑🏻: “She said to me that he’s been a really nasty so and so over the last few centuries, much more than usual, and that she’s had it up to high heaven with all his evil Devil nonsense…”

👱🏻‍♀️: “Is that so dear?”

🧑🏻: “Yep… and she said she’s going to sit right down and write him a note… an official letter more like, she said. 

A letter from her, from the department of God.”

👱🏻‍♀️: “Huh?… An actual letter?… A letter from the Department of God?… A letter from God?”

🧑🏻: “Yep.”

👱🏻‍♀️: “To the actual Devil?”

🧑🏻: “Yep.”

👱🏻‍♀️: “And pray tell… what will this letter from God say to the actual Devil, dear?”

🧑🏻: “She said to me this is what she’s going to write and say to him;

Lucifer,

Stop sending people to kill the creatures of God.

I’ll only send you the one.

G.”

👱🏻‍♀️: “ ?…? ”

👱🏻‍♀️: “Well now, that is quite stern isn’t it dear?… I’m sure Beelzebub will get the message when he reads that now, won’t he?”

🧑🏻: “Why, yes Darling… I’m sure he will, I’m sure he will… my thoughts entirely…”

🧑🏻: “Now… what time did we say we’d be at the Roadhouse for?…

Was it 8.00 o’clock…”

👱🏻‍♀️: “Yes dear.”

🧑🏻: “Best put my foot down then, or we’re going to be late…”

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National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. ~ 13 July 2023

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Painting by Roy Lichtenstein
Title: In the Car
Date: 1963