You've Got Mail Part 1

FADE IN ON:

CYBERSPACE

We have a sense of cyberspace-travel as we hurtle through a
sky that's just beginning to get light. There are a few
stars but they fade and the sky turns a milky blue and a big
computer sun starts to rise.

We continue hurtling through space and see that we're heading
over a computer version of the New York City skyline. We
move over Central Park. It's fall and the leaves are
glorious reds and yellows.

We reach the West Side of Manhattan and move swiftly down
Broadway with its stores and gyms and movies theatres and
turn onto a street in the West 80s.

Hold in front of a New York brownstone.

At the bottom of the screen a small rectangle appears and the
words:

ADDING ART

As the rectangle starts to fill with color, we see a percentage
increase from 0% to 100%. When it hits 100% the image pops and
we are in real life.

EXT. NEW YORK BROWNSTONE - DAY

Early morning in New York. A couple of runners pass on their
way to Riverside Drive Park.

We go through the brownstone window into:

INT. KATHLEEN KELLY'S APARTMENT - DAY

KATHLEEN KELLY is asleep. Kathleen, 30, is as pretty and
fresh as a spring day. Her bedroom cozy, has a queen-sized
bed and a desk with a computer on it. Bookshelves line every
inch of wall space and overflow with books. Framed on the
children's classic. Madeleine.

As Kathleen wakes up, her boyfriend FRANK NAVASKY walks into
the room. He wears blue jeans and a workshirt. He's carrying
the New York Times.

KATHLEEN
Good morning.

FRANK
(as he reads)
This is amazing. Listen to this -- the entire work force
of the state of Virginia had to have solitaire removed
from their computers --

Kathleen gets out of bed and goes to brush her teeth in the
bathroom, and we stay with Frank.

FRANK
(continuing)
-- because they hadn't done any work in
six weeks.

Kathleen comes out of the bathroom in her robe.

KATHLEEN
Aren't you late?

FRANK
(continuing)
You know what this is, you know what
we're seeing here? We're seeing the end
of Western civilization as we know it.

KATHLEEN
This is so sad.

FRANK
Technology. Name me one thing. One thing
that we've gained from technology.

KATHLEEN
Electricity.

She tosses him his jacket.

FRANK
(points at her computer)
That's one. You think that machine is your friend,
but it's not. I'm outta here.

INT. LIVING ROOM - KATHLEEN'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

As Frank walks to the apartment door. We see a charming room
with a couch, fireplace, books, and a dining table with a
typewriter with a cover on it.

KATHLEEN (O.C.)
I'll see you tonight.

FRANK
Sushi.

KATHLEEN (O.C.)
Sushi! Bye!

Frank goes out the door. It closes.

Kathleen tiptoes into the hall and looks through the fish-eye
peephole watching as he goes down the stairs, disappearing
from sight. She walks into:

INT. KATHLEEN'S BEDROOM - DAY

And looks out the front window as Frank walks out onto the
street and turns toward Broadway.

He's gone.

She sits down at her computer. An expression of anticipation
and guilty pleasure as she clicks the mouse.

INT. COMPUTER SCREEN - DAY

As we see the logo for America On Line come up and Kathleen's
code name: Shopgirl. She logs on and the computer makes all
its little modem noises as the computer dials the access
number and connects and we hear the machine:

COMPUTER
Welcome.

And we see Kathleen, listening for the words she's waiting to
hear:

COMPUTER (cont'd)
You've got mail.

And Kathleen smiles as her mail page comes up:

INT. COMPUTER SCREEN - DAY

We see a list of letters:


Then she selects the "Read Mail" key for "NY 152 Brinkley".

And the letter comes up:
To: Shopgirl
From: NY152
Re: Brinkley

Kathleen starts to read the letter aloud:

KATHLEEN
Brinkley is my dog. He loves the streets
of New York as much as I do --

And now we hear Kathleen's voice replaced by the voice of
NY 152, a man named JOE FOX --

JOE (V.O.)
-- although he likes to eat bits of pizza
and bagel off the sidewalk, and I prefer
to buy them. Brinkley is a great catcher
and was offered a tryout on the Mets farm
team --
(continued)

INT. JOE'S APARTMENT - DAY

A dog is sitting on a large green pillow on the floor. This
is BRINKLEY. The pillow has "Brinkley" embroidered on it.
Brinkley's master, JOE FOX, a great-looking guy, full of
charm and irony, comes into the kitchen and pours himself
some orange juice. He's half-dressed.

JOE (cont'd)
-- but he chose to stay with me so that
he could spend 18 hours a day sleeping on
a large green pillow the size of an inner
tube. Don't you love New York in the
fall? It makes me want to buy school
supplies. I would send you a bouquet of
newly-sharpened pencils if I knew your
name and address. On the other hand,
this not knowing has its charms.

VOICE
I'm almost ready. Did you turn it on?
I need a double today. Did you push it?

JOE
Yes, yes, I pushed it.

Joe's girlfriend PATRICIA EDEN, in Armani head to toe, comes
into the kitchen and turns on the $2000 espresso machine,
which starts grinding beans. She's carrying the morning
papers.

PATRICIA
I'm late.
(indicating the newspaper)
Random House fired Dick Atkins. Good
riddance. Murray Chilton died. Which
makes one less person I'm not speaking
to --
(she drains a cup of espresso
as a second starts to come out
of the machine and starts waving
her arms.)
--Hurry hurry hurry! Aah!--
Vince got a great review. He'll be
insufferable. Tonight, PEN dinner --

JOE
Am I going?

PATRICIA
Joe Fox, you promised.

JOE
It's black-tie. Can't I just give them money
instead? What is it this week? Free Albanian writers?
I'm in favor of that.

Patricia comes and hugs him, pleading with him to go.

JOE
Okay, I'll go. You're late.

PATRICIA
I know I know I know.

She tears out of the kitchen and the door slams behind her.

Hold on Joe, listening as he hears the elevator door open and
close on the landing outside.

IT. JOE'S DEN - DAY

As he comes in and sits down at his laptop computer and logs
on, rubbing his hands together. He pets Brinkley.

JOE & THE COMPUTER (TOGETHER)
Welcome... You've got mail.

And as he starts to read his letter, we hear:

KATHLEEN (V.O.)
Dear Friend, I like to start my notes to
you as if we're already in the middle of a
conversation. I pretend that we're
the oldest and dearest friends --
as opposed to what we actually are,
people who don't know each other's names
and met in a Chat Room where we both
claimed we'd never been before.

INT. JOE'S ELEVATOR - DAY

As Joe, dressed for work, takes the elevator down with his
elevator man CHARLIE. There's a certain amount of Good
morning, etc., as the elevator goes down and the voice-over
continues:

KATHLEEN (V.O., CONTINUES)
"What will NY152 say today?", I wonder. I turn
on my computer, I wait impatiently as it
connects--

EXT. RIVERSIDE DRIVE - DAY

As Joe comes out of his building.

KATHLEEN (V.O., CONTINUES)
I go online, and my breath catches in my
chest until I hear three little words:
You've got mail.

And the camera now pans from 152 Riverside uptown to:

EXT. NEW YORK BROWNSTONE - MORNING

KATHLEEN (V.O., CONTINUES)
I hear nothing, not even a sound on the
streets of New York, just the beat of my
heart. I have mail. From you.

EXT. BROADWAY - MORNING

As Kathleen comes onto Broadway at the corner of 83rd Street
and starts downtown.

Through a long lens we can see Joe, walking into blocks behind
her.

As Kathleen and Joe make their way down Broadway we see the
West Side of Manhattan in the morning. Mothers and fathers
taking their kids to school, people on their way to work,
dogs being walked. School buses picking up kids, bakery
trucks dropping off brown bags of bread in the doorframes of
unopened restaurants.

Kathleen stops at a newsstand, says good morning to the
newsstand dealer, and picks up a New York Times.

Metal grates are pulled up to open flower shops, nail salons,
the pharmacy, fish store, the Cuban Chinese Restaurant,
Zabar's.

Joe stops at the same newsstand. He buys all the papers --
the Times, Wall Street Journal, Post and Daily News.

INT. STARBUCKS - DAY

As Kathleen picks up her coffee, walks out.

EXT. COLUMBUS AVENUE - DAY

As Kathleen walks down Columbus, we see Joe a block behind
her. She stops to buy flowers and Joe passes her, crosses to
the Ease side of Columbus Avenue.

EXT. COLUMBUS AVENUE - DAY

A building under construction, with plywood board covering
the front and wrapping around the corner. Joe goes to a side
entrance and enters.

INT. CONSTRUCTION SITE - DAY

WORKERS, ELECTRICIANS, MASONS, CARPENTERS, etc. in the
process of building what looks like a large store. Wires
hanging everywhere.

KEVIN
The electrical contractor called. His
truck hit a deer last night, he won't be
in 'til tomorrow. The shelves are late
because the shipment of pine had beetles.

JOE
Very good. Very good.

KEVIN
And we got a $50,000 ticket for construction
workers peeing off the roof.

JOE
Great. That is great. Is the electrician here today?

KEVIN
I just told you -- he hit a deer. Man, I knew you weren't
listening to me.

Joe laughs.

JOE
You're right. I wasn't. I hear nothing. Nothing. Not a sound
on the city streets, just the beat of my own heart.
I think that's the way it goes. Something like that.

KEVIN
(beginning to glean something)
You and Patricia got engaged, didn't you? You can tell me.

JOE
Engaged? Are you crazy?

KEVIN
I thought you liked Patricia --

JOE
I love Patricia. Patricia's amazing.
Patricia makes coffee nervous.
(suddenly all business)
Hey you know what, we should announce ourselves to the
neighborhood. Just let them know, "Here we come."

KEVIN
I don't know. This is the Upper West Side. We might
as well tell them we're gonna open a crack house. They're
gonna hate us. As soon as they hear, they're gonna be
lining up--

JOE and KEVIN (together)
-- to picket the big bad chain store--

KEVIN
-- that's out to destroy --

JOE
-- everything we hold dear. But we'll
seduce them with our square footage and
our discounts and our deep armchairs and our...

JOE and KEVIN (together)
(the trump card)
-- cappuccino.

JOE
That's right. They're gonna hate us in the beginning, but

JOE and KEVIN (together)
we'll get them in the end.

JOE
And you know why?

KEVIN
Why?

JOE
Because we're gonna sell them cheap books and legal addictive
stimulants. In the meantime, we'll just put up a big sign.
-- Coming soon, a Foxbooks Superstore and The End of
Civilization As You Know It.


EXT. COLUMBUS & 73RD STREET - DAY - CONTINUOUS

As Kathleen comes around the corner onto 73rd and stops in
front of her store, a children's bookstore called "The Shop
Around the Corner." It is an irresistibly inviting store.
There are twinkle lights in the windows, framing large
stuffed animals reading children's books: Madeleine, Good
Night Moon, Where the Wild Things Are. A teddy bear in a
pinafore is reading The Stupids Step Out. Waiting for
Kathleen in front is one of her employees, CHRISTINA.

KATHLEEN
Good morning, Christina. It's a beautiful day.
Isn't it the most beautiful day?

Christina looks up at the sky as if seeing it for the first
time.

CHRISTINA
I guess. Yeah, sure.

Kathleen unlocks the shop and cranks the grate, which
rises, making a horrible noise. Two cabs almost collide in
front of the store, with a screech, and one cabdriver starts
yelling obscenities at the other. Kathleen unlocks the door
to the store.

KATHLEEN
Don't you love New York in the fall?

Christina looks at her puzzled.

INT. SHOP AROUND THE CORNER - CONTINUOUS

Kathleen turns the CLOSED sign on the door over to read
"OPEN" and she activates the computer system. She looks
around, and we see a small but charming children's bookstore,
with wooden shelves, a tiny area where kids can sit and read,
some charming posters and a glass case full of first editions
of the Oz books and Alice In Wonderland, etc. There's a
playful display of witches, lit with twinkle lights covered
with orange pumpkin globes and a sign reading "The Ten Best
Witch List" and a collection of witch books -- "The Lion, The
Witch and the Wardrobe," "The Witches," "The Wizard of Oz."
On the counter is a glass jar full of sugar-free lollipops. Kathleen picks up some
flowers and smiles.

KATHLEEN
Perfect.

Kathleen smells some tape happily.

KATHLEEN.
Mm. Can't beat that.

CHRISTINA
Scotch tape? What is going on with you?

KATHLEEN
Nothing.

CHRISTINA
You're in love.

KATHLEEN
In love? No. Oh, yes. That's right.
I'm in love with Frank. I'm practically
living with Frank. Do you think you
could get our Christmas mailers out this
week?

CHRISTINA
By Monday I promise. I have a paper due
Friday. Now what's going on?

KATHLEEN.
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

CHRISTINA
(she looks at Kathleen)
I'm just going to stand here till you tell
me.

A beat.

KATHLEEN
All right. Is it infidelity if you're involved with
someone on E-mail?

CHRISTINA
Have you had sex?

KATHLEEN
Of course not. I don't even know him.

CHRISTINA
I mean cybersex.

KATHLEEN
No!

CHRISTINA
Well, don't do it. The minute you do,
they lose all respect for you.

KATHLEEN
It's not like that. We just E-mail.
It's really nothing, on top of which I'm
definitely thinking of stopping because
it's getting --

CHRISTINA
Out of hand?

KATHLEEN
Confusing. But not really. Because it's
nothing.

CHRISTINA
Where did you meet him?

KATHLEEN
I can't even remember.
(off Christina's look)
Ok, on my birthday I wandered into
the Over Thirty Room for a joke, sort of
and he was there, and we started
chatting.

CHRISTINA
About what?

KATHLEEN
Books. Music. How much we both love New
York. Harmless. Harmless. Meaningless.
(starts smiling)
Bouquets of sharpened pencils.

CHRISTINA
Excuse me?

KATHLEEN
Forget it. We don't talk about anything
personal. We made a rule about that.
I don't know his name, what he does or
exactly where he lives, so it will be
really easy to stop seeing him, because
I'm not.

CHRISTINA
God, he could be the next person to walk
into the store.

KATHLEEN
I know.

CHRISTINA
He could be...
(as George walks in)
George.

GEORGE PAPPAS, in his twenties, one of Kathleen's
salespeople, is a cute guy who has no idea that he's supposed
to look in the mirror when he gets dressed.

GEORGE
Morning.

CHRISTINA
Are you Online?

GEORGE
As far as I'm concerned, the Internet is
just another way to be rejected by a
woman.

BIRDIE walks in. She is in her seventies, has white hair,
and is tiny, like a little sparrow. She is the store's
oldest employee, having worked there for over forty years,
and serves as a accountant as well as salesperson.

BIRDIE
Good morning.

KATHLEEN
Good morning, Birdie.

BIRDIE
What are you all talking about?

CHRISTINA
Cybersex.

BIRDIE
I tried to have cybersex once but I kept
getting a busy signal.

CHRISTINA
I know, I know. One Saturday night I was
really depressed about not having a date,
so I thought, no problemo, I'll go on
line and I won't be lonely, but I
couldn't get on, there were hundreds of
thousands of people who didn't have dates
trying to get on.

BIRDIE
Time to open up!

We hear the bell jingle as TWO WEST SIDE MOTHERS come in with
two KIDS IN STROLLERS.

KATHLEEN
(to the kids)
Jessica and Maia, how are you today?

MOTHER
You want to say hi to Kathleen?

JESSICA and MAIA
Hi, Kathleen.

George
(picking up the phone)
Good morning. Little Shop around the Corner. How may
I help you?

INT. FOXBOOKS - WORLD HEADQUARTERS - DAY

Joe is in the office with his father, NELSON FOX, and his
grandfather, SCHUYLER FOX. The office has been recently
redecorated; everything is new and a little overdone.

On the wall we see the Foxbooks logo.

JOE
The construction's going well. We should open on time,
although Kevin and I are both a little concerned
about the neighborhood response --
(suddenly notices the garish
couch)
This fabric, what is it? Does it have a
name?

NELSON
Money. Its name is money.

JOE
Gillian selected it.

NELSON
Good guess.

SCHUYLER
Your father is getting married again.

JOE
Really? congratulations, Dad. Why?

NELSON
Who knows?

JOE
Love?

NELSON
Possible.

SCHUYLER
I think you're a damn fool.

NELSON
Pops, Matthew is four years old, ok? It would be nice
for him if he knew his parents were married.

JOE
Listen, I have a sad announcement to make. City Books
on 23rd street. It's going under.

Joe and his grandfather laugh and point their fingers at
each other like guns, shooting happily.

NELSON
Aw, another independent bites the dust.

SCHUYLER
On to the next.

JOE
I'm going to buy out their entire inventory of
architecture and New York history for the
new store.

NELSON
How much, son? How much are you paying?

JOE
Well, whatever it costs, it won't be as much as
that exquisite mohair episode there which is now
all over my suit..

Nelson throws him a gadget to remove the hair.

NELSON
Here you go, son.

JOE
We're also going to have a section dedicated just to
writers who've lived on the West Side--

SCHUYLER
-- as a shot to the neighborhood.

NELSON
Perfect. It'll keep those West Side
liberal nut pseudo-intellectual bleeding
hearts --

JOE
Readers, dad. They're called readers.

NELSON
Don't do that, son. Don't romanticize them. It'll
keep them from jumping down your throat --

SCHUYLER
What's the competition?

JOE
One mystery store. Sleuth, on 78th and
Amsterdam. And a children's bookstore.
The Shop Around the Corner. Been there
forever.

SCHUYLER
Cecilia's store.

JOE
Who's that?

SCHUYLER
Cecilia Kelly, lovely woman. I think we
might have had a date once. Or maybe we
just exchanged letters.

JOE
You wrote her letters?

SCHUYLER
Mail. It was called mail.

NELSON
(fondly nostalgic and kidding
it slightly)
Stamps. Envelopes.

JOE
You know, I've heard of it.

SCHUYLER
Cecilia had beautiful penmanship.
She was too young for me, but she was...
enchanting. Her daughter owns it now.

NELSON
Too bad for her.

DECORATOR
Excuse me, Mr. Fox.

Nelson waves him in.

NELSON
Yeah, come on in.


As a DECORATOR walks into the office carrying a pile of
upholstered pillows, and Joe turns to look at them.

JOE (V.O.)
My father is getting married again. For
five years he's been living with a woman
who studied decorating at Caesar's
Palace.

Joe looks at a strange piece of furniture being
brought in.

JOE
Porcelain?

NELSON
(sighs)
Rubber.

INT. SUBWAY - DAY

Kathleen looks up from her book as a butterfly flies through
the subway car.

KATHLEEN (V.O.)
Once I read a story about a butterfly in
the subway, and today I saw one. It got on
at 42nd
--
(continued)

The train comes to a stop. The butterfly flies out.

KATHLEEN (V.O.)
-- and off at 59th, where I assume it
was going to Bloomindale's to buy a hat
that will turn out to be a mistake. As
almost all hats are.


EXT. H & H BAGELS - NIGHT

A flour truck is unloading flour into a hole in the ground.

JOE (V.O.)
Listen to this: every night a truck
pulls up to my neighborhood bagel place and
pumps about a ton of flour into underground tanks.
Then the air is filled with white dust which never seems
to land. Why is that?

As Joe comes around the corner and sees the dust filling the
air. It is amazing.

KATHLEEN (V.O.)
Confession: I have read Pride & Prejudice about
200 times. I get lost in the language. Words like
"thither". "mischance". "felicity". --

INT. JOE'S KITCHEN - DAY

As Joe reads a copy of Pride and Prejudice. He can't stand
it and closes the book.

KATHLEEN (V.O.)
-- I'm always in agony over whether
Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are not going to
get together--

Joe picks the book back up.

KATHLEEN
--Read it. I know you'll love it.
INT. STARBUCKS COFFEE SHOP

JOE (V.O.)
The whole purpose for places like Starbucks is for people
with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six
decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light,
dark, caf, decaf, lowfat, nonfat, et cetera. So people, who
don't know what the hell they are doing, or who on earth they
are, can for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee, but an
absolutely defining sense of self. Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!

EXT. STARBUCKS - DAY

As Joe leaves with his morning coffee.


INT. STARBUCKS - DAY

As Kathleen buys her morning coffee and listens to everyone
ordering.

We can hear the sounds of Starbucks: "Short decaf cap," "Tall
mocha latte." "Grande lowfat regular." Etc.




EXT. COLUMBUS AVENUE - DAY

George walks past a painter and a sign for Fox Books. He looks at it
for a moment.

GEORGE
Bummer.

The sign is now complete and it says: "Coming soon, just
around the corner. A Foxbooks Superstore."

Kathleen and George and Christina stand there looking at it.

GEORGE
A Fox Books Superstore.

CHRISTINA
Quel nightmare.

KATHLEEN
It has nothing to do with us. It's
big, impersonal, overstocked and
full of ignorant salespeople.

GEORGE
But they discount.

KATHLEEN
But they don't provide any service. We
do.

George and Christina nod.

INT. BARNEY GREENGRASS - LUNCHTIME

Kathleen is having lunch with Birdie.

KATHLEEN
So really it's a good development. You
know how in the flower district, there
are all these flower shops in a row so
you can find whatever you want? Well,
this is going to be the book district.
If you don't have it, we do.

BIRDIE
And vice versa.

KATHLEEN
Absolutely.

INT. KATHLEEN'S APARTMENT - DUSK

Kathleen in the kitchen, unloading groceries. Frank is
standing there, plugging in an Olympia Report deluxe Electric
typewriter.

FRANK
When you are finished with Foxbooks, the
Shop Around the Corner is going to be
responsible for reversing the entire
course of the Industrial Revolution.

KATHLEEN
That is so sweet, Frank. Thank you.
That is so sweet.

FRANK
Hey --

He holds his arms out. They hug.

KATHLEEN
Although...

FRANK
What?

KATHLEEN
(over his shoulder, she notices
the typewriter, breaks from
the hug)
What is that doing there?

FRANK
Oh, this is amazing. Listen to it. Just
listen--

He strikes a key. Practically swoons.

FRANK
The Olympia Report deluxe Electric
Report. As in gunshot.

KATHLEEN
That sound is familiar.

FRANK
Now listen to this.

He puts his ear to the typewriter.

Kathleen listens too.

KATHLEEN
That whirring?

FRANK
The gentle and soothing lullaby of a
piece of machinery so perfect --

KATHLEEN
I know where I've heard it before. I
know.

She whips a cover off the other typewriter on the table.
It's the same machine exactly.

FRANK
I needed a backup.

KATHLEEN
Don't you have another one of these at your
apartment?

FRANK
I might, I might.

KATHLEEN
--That you wrote a column about?

FRANK
Yes, who cares?

They exchange looks.

FRANK
What were you going to say?

KATHLEEN
When?

FRANK
Before.

KATHLEEN
Nothing.

FRANK
Come on.

KATHLEEN
I'm just wondering. I'm wondering about
my work and all. I mean, what is it I do
exactly? All I really do is run a
bookstore --

FRANK
All you really do is this incredibly
noble thing --

Kathleen nods.

KATHLEEN
Well, I don't know. Really, I'm just--

FRANK
(stopping her)
Kathleen --

KATHLEEN
But I just --

FRANK
You are a lone reed.

Kathleen looks puzzled.

He sticks a piece of paper in the typewriter, starts typing.

FRANK
You are a lone reed standing tall, waving boldly in
the corrupt sands of commerce.

He whips the piece of paper out of the typewriter and hands
it to her.

KATHLEEN
(reading from it)
I am a lone reed.
(tries it on again)
I am a lone reed.

Clutching her piece of paper, she wanders into the bathroom.

INT. BEDROOM - DUSK

We hear the sound of a typewriter begin to clack away in the
next room.

Kathleen walks past her computer, looks at it. Then she goes
over to the window, looks out at her street at dusk.

EXT. KATHLEEN'S STREET - DUSK

A group of schoolgirls in uniform, in two straight lines,
walk past with a tall woman.

INT. KATHLEEN'S BEDROOM - DUSK

She goes over to the bookshelf and pulls out a copy of
Madeleine by Ludwig Bemelmans and opens it to the
illustration of the twelve little girls in two straight lines
marching through the streets of Paris. She looks at it, then
looks up, lost in thought. We hear the sound of the computer
keys.

KATHLEEN (V.O.)
Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead
a small life. Well, valuable, but small.
And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because
I like it, or because I haven't been brave?
So much of what I see reminds me of something
I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way
around?
(continued)

And hold on her as she thinks about this.

EXT. KATHLEEN'S BUILDING - NIGHT

As we see Kathleen, through her curtains, a small figure
barely lit by her computer.

KATHLEEN (V.O., cont'd)
I don't really want an answer. I just
want to send this cosmic question out
into the void. So goodnight, dear void.