{"id":2634,"date":"2021-12-16T21:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2021-12-16T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:30:43","slug":"lx-commentary-25-lyegue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-commentary-25-lyegue\/","title":{"rendered":"LX Commentary #25: Lyegue"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>One final instrumental to segue us into the finale! Like <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2472\">Coyotes<\/a>, in the first draft this was a Benji-centric dream. Realizing that chapter needed to focus on L opened the door for C&#8217;s starring turn here.<\/p>\r\n<p>Way back in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2109\">Tight Tee Shirt<\/a>, C conveniently said \u201cI had a dream last night too. A dream about a girl\u201d from the very first draft. It was time to use the gifts I gave myself.<\/p>\r\n<p>In many ways this book was C&#8217;s story as much as it was Benji &amp; L&#8217;s. More than just a third wheel, he&#8217;s been a helpful (though sometimes annoying) voice of reason truly invested in reuniting the star-crossed couple. I needed to pay off his offer to help by allowing him to be the ultimate answer, mirroring how DJ was the solution to L&#8217;s quest at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2487\">Ladies On Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The two preceding chapter endings tease C&#8217;s upcoming revelation:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cThis might take a real long time for him to complete&#8230;.But when he does, he\u2019ll be the only one who can connect how this started with how it ends.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>And right before this &#8220;dream&#8221; starts:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cWith that, C woke up.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Other tidbits:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>This has become my go-to chapter for live (or live-streamed) readings, which is sort of insane because this chapter is off the rails nuts and not necessarily representative of the (also nuts) rest of the novel. People still seem to dig it, even without a lot of context.<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_2656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2656\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SPi4tL6r5UE\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2656 size-medium\" title=\"LYE\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/41jMBSKUj0L._AC_-e1639709434181-161x300.jpg?resize=161%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/41jMBSKUj0L._AC_-e1639709434181.jpg?resize=161%2C300&amp;ssl=1 161w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/41jMBSKUj0L._AC_-e1639709434181.jpg?w=194&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sooner or later when you say I love you, you&#8217;re gonna realize that some of my LYES are GUE&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n&#8220;Two words. Both with three letters&#8221; is a very C way to start a chapter. It&#8217;s also intended to call attention to the chapter&#8217;s song title, splitting LYEGUE into LYE &amp; GUE in the key of the SAL &amp; MON three letter doors from earlier. Where might these doors be?<\/li>\r\n<li>&#8220;Never lose your stride&#8221; is something my college friend Ben Wood used to say. He was the partial inspiration for Local Boy in <a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/b\/tp\"><em>Timely Persuasion<\/em><\/a>, and here C channels his famous line.<\/li>\r\n<li>Didicur&#8217;s and\/or Willicur&#8217;s nearly became something else (Shalicur&#8217;s? Hadicur&#8217;s? Shudicur&#8217;s?) here but I couldn&#8217;t decide, thus C says he doesn&#8217;t know the name of the place. I also liked it better as a &#8220;big box&#8221; store, playing on how the whole story has more or less taken place in a &#8220;big box&#8221; of sorts.<\/li>\r\n<li>This being a C chapter, there&#8217;s a running gag of counting increments increasing as the chapter progresses. <em><strong>Two<\/strong><\/em> words. <em><strong>Three<\/strong><\/em> letters. <em><strong>Four<\/strong><\/em> possible stores. <em><strong>Five<\/strong><\/em> of those credit cards. <em><strong>Six<\/strong><\/em> containers of cleaning supplies, season <em><strong>six<\/strong><\/em> of <em>Quantum Leap <\/em>plus <em><strong>six<\/strong><\/em> seasoned henchpeople (intentionally sticking with <em><strong>six<\/strong><\/em> for a bad <em><strong>666<\/strong><\/em> joke). MI<em><strong>7 <\/strong><\/em>(intentionally <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MI7\">wrong-ish<\/a>). Count of <em><strong>eight<\/strong><\/em>. <em><strong>Nine<\/strong><\/em> coins. And finally the aisle changing from 19-25.\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_2658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2658\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2658 size-medium\" title=\"GUE\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rocketship-Unicorn-scaled.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe same chocolate GUE with the unicorns and rocketships DJ found stashed inside that chocolate cake in the woods near the cemetery.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>After college I wrote a script called\u00a0<em>The Customer Is Always Wrong\u00a0<\/em>that channeled my old retail experience at The Christmas Tree Shop in Avon, MA. The same fictional store also had a brief appearance in an earlier screenplay called\u00a0<em>Wasted Days in a Wasted Daze.<\/em> One or both of those stories included a scene where a customer insists an employee &#8220;go check in the back&#8221; for an item\u2014a fairly common request in the world of retail. C as in customer explores that old thread a little further here.<\/li>\r\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t need anymore trouble. I&#8217;ve got plenty already. More than my share.&#8221; These are paraphrased lines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OZIzUVm3T4\">from the song &#8220;Taxi&#8221;<\/a> off <em>A Lovers Extreme<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<li>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know there was a jazz store until recently&#8221; references the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/7569641-Benji-Hughes-Freaky-Feedback-Blues-Jazz-X-10\">B-Side<\/a> to &#8220;Freaky Feedback Blues&#8221; called &#8220;Jazz x 10&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li>Realizing I could integrate the word\u00a0<em>Lye<\/em> into nearly every James Bond movie title was an oddly giddy moment of things aligning in mysterious ways.<\/li>\r\n<li>Early drafts revealed Jessica to be a soap maker during the <em>Jessica &amp; L stopped by<\/em> bit from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2455\">I Went With Some Friends To See The Flaming Lips<\/a>, but as Benji says in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2354\">Vibe So Hot<\/a> I decided not to be so oblique about it here. C acknowledges he doesn&#8217;t know how he knows this, and the Haywood Park Soap provides enough dream logic to latch onto.<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2653\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lhasa-3.jpg?resize=280%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lhasa-3.jpg?resize=280%2C300&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lhasa-3.jpg?resize=373%2C400&amp;ssl=1 373w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lhasa-3.jpg?w=534&amp;ssl=1 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Have you seen a man who looks like this dog? He might be the next messiah. Or the Dalai Lama. Or the best songwriter you&#8217;ve never heard of.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\nNo sacrilege is intended by using the Dalai Lama as a stand-in for a James Bond Villain here, but a guilty conscience might be why his shot missed. It&#8217;s mainly a callback to his brief appearance in the first chapter, which was inspired after I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsln.com\/news\/the-tibetan-dog-reincarnation\/\">read an article<\/a> about how the Dalai Lama is reincarnated as a dog prior to regaining human form, and the Lhasa Apso breed reminded me of an\u00a0<em>A Love Extreme<\/em> era promotional photo of Benji Hughes.<\/li>\r\n<li>The golden helicopter references &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/743fN1uCFd2NxJ2ehHKTzW?si=621361d393dd415d\">Let&#8217;s Not Ever Die<\/a>,&#8221; a song previously alluded to towards the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2227\">Where Do Old Lovers Go?<\/a>\u00a0Jan-Michael Vincent flies the helicopter as his old Airwolf character, tying in another Donald Bellisario show along with the time Benji Hughes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/entertainment\/arts-culture\/article61084247.html\">jokingly said in an interview<\/a> that Jan-Michael Vincent narrated\u00a0<em>LILILIL<\/em> instead of Jeff Bridges.<\/li>\r\n<li><em>\u201cEvilon is too dangerous to be left in unenlightened hands. Finding him is your first priority&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>paraphrases the opening narration to\u00a0<em>Airwolf<\/em>, mirroring the parody\u00a0<em>Quantum Leap<\/em> saga cell narration that closed out <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2194\">Cornfields<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li>From the air, the island hotel is meant to invoke the timeshare Kenny &amp; L visited, intentionally blurring the lines between dream and reality.<\/li>\r\n<li>Amusing line from an earlier draft: &#8220;Didn&#8217;t Evilon surrender with devotion and love?&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li>&#8220;Sometimes all you need is what you have. That&#8217;s a topic for another day.&#8221; references a <a href=\"https:\/\/myspace.com\/allyouneediswhatyouhave\/music\/songs\">Roy Harper tribute album<\/a> produced by Jonathan Wilson that includes a cover song by Benji.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/floodmagazine.com\/31410\/benji-hughes-songs-in-the-key-of-animals\/\">Critics often compare<\/a> Benji Hughes to Ween, hence the tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/5Ci3qdm3m5wnkK9ORy2hU5?si=abstBLh7TTS3HgmJqLShmQ\"><em>Chocolate and Cheese<\/em><\/a> nod here.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3uXssGUxGienEUFdxs6QM5?si=a3fe4af1a8274853\">&#8220;Wishing well is gonna run dry&#8230;&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>All of the callbacks to previous scenes from the book culminate in C meeting L, just like the dream he mentioned when we first met him. This is that dream he forgot; this time he&#8217;ll remember.<\/li>\r\n<li>Did\u00a0<em>you<\/em> know an octopus has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/question\/many-hearts-octopus\/\">multiple hearts and multiple brains<\/a>?<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_2654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bondsuits.com\/infamous-clown-suit-octopussy\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2654\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-15-at-11.48.08-PM.png?resize=300%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-15-at-11.48.08-PM.png?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-15-at-11.48.08-PM.png?resize=545%2C400&amp;ssl=1 545w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-15-at-11.48.08-PM.png?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s not one of the clowns from the circus.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>In the Benji-centric draft, he sees himself wearing clown makeup in the mirror behind L as a tribute to the clown chase scene in <em>Octopussy<\/em> plus a Sam Beckett style mirror gag. Switching to C\u2014whose full name is Count and has been lightly teased as a possible vampire throughout\u2014made me cut that bit in favor of not seeing his reflection at all. But it also opened the door for him to get especially excited about who he does see enter the room via the mirror&#8230;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/b\/lx\">Check out\u00a0<em>L Extreme<\/em><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><em>I found a random reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celebdirtylaundry.com\/2013\/americas-got-talent-recap-71613-season-8-las-vegas-night-1\/\">a brother and sister duo covering this song<\/a> on America&#8217;s Got Talent in 2013\u2014but it&#8217;s a 30 second instrumental so I don&#8217;t think it could possibly be true. If I find out otherwise the video will go below; for now here&#8217;s the original.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7eP6q06IPTk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One final instrumental to segue us into the finale! Like Coyotes, in the first draft this was a Benji-centric dream. Realizing that chapter needed to focus on L opened the door for C&#8217;s starring turn here. Way back in Tight Tee Shirt, C conveniently said \u201cI had a dream last night too. A dream about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-Gu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2117,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-chapter-commentary-7-why-do-these-parties-always-end-the-same-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":2634,"position":0},"title":"LX Chapter Commentary #7: Why Do These Parties Always End The Same Way?","author":"LBDG","date":"June 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\"We need to call the cops somebody killed the DJ!\" is the lyric from A Love Extreme at the core of this chapter. 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But how would we get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-06-at-10.20.50-PM-300x211.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2109,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-chapter-commentary-2-tight-tee-shirt\/","url_meta":{"origin":2634,"position":2},"title":"LX Chapter Commentary #2: Tight Tee Shirt","author":"LBDG","date":"May 8, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Chapter 1 of L Extreme\u00a0ends the dreamy non-dream with \"and then I fall asleep,\" so we naturally kick off the main action with Benji waking up.After making the switch to fiction, my original concept for the book was a set of loosely connected short stories. Take the same characters and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2123,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-chapter-commentary-3-you-stood-me-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":2634,"position":3},"title":"LX Chapter Commentary #3: You Stood Me Up","author":"LBDG","date":"May 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A dream, a frame story, and a flashback walk into a novel based on lyrics from a double album by Benji Hughes\u00a0who also stars as the protagonist.Kidding aside, the thrill of working on L Extreme was the kitchen-sink zaniness of the structure. 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