Scenes from a Mall

A story about two college friends who choose a symbolic mall in Seattle for a novel-study about tribulation-dunes.

An American portrait of traffic-anthropology, inspired by the iconic Woody Allen film Scenes from a Mall (loosely). Enjoy (and Happy Thanksgiving!), 

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Seattle (Washington) is a nice place for the holidays, and during this Thanksgiving, there's a special air of social fascination regarding customs/couture, since the world's been dealing with problems like 9/11 and the Coronavirus tribulation.

Two college pals reuniting in Seattle during this Thanksgiving are enjoying the anticipated Lions-Bears game and expect to do much on Black Friday for their new joint-novel they're writing at Dartmouth about the nuances of socialization in the age of commerce/consumerism and how things are imprinted onto the mosaic of American folk-tales and customs.

The two friends, Amlan and Marcus, are studying the socialization resilience patterns in American civilization creating the sort of 'cultural resilience' seen in these new trying times of traffic worries like the Coronavirus tribulation. They'd like to assess the street-sense of Seattle and how the traffic at an iconic consumerism-friendly shopping mall sees a sort of patterned sociological trend in human behavior imprints and want to evaluate the mind's eye regarding attitudes towards customs/optimism. Amlan/Marcus will go to the shopping mall on Black Friday, the traditional/customary 'shopping-day' in Seattle/America, to make notes.

AMLAN: This is the perfect place for our book about 'scenes from a mall' in America!

MARCUS: We'll scout around for two 'damsels' who'd fit the profile for a portrait of modern Seattle optimism.

Amlan/Marcus began to scout around the iconic Seattle shopping mall and scouted for two ideal 'damsels' who'd fit the profile for their book about traffic imprints onto human behaviors in times of tribulation. They'd look for two attractive females at the mall to characterize as 'poster-girls' for a modern American view on the links in customs/couture between consumerism traffic...and cultural optimism!

AMLAN: We'll be like 'James Bond' figures in this scene from a mall looking for diamonds in the rough!

MARCUS: We'll stage a portrait-study of damsels-in-traffic for our own pseudonym-work on American depression.

Amlan and Marcus begin to search for the damsels who'd be placed in a hypothetical 'Minotaur-Maze' symbolizing American consciousness in Seattle during tribulation for their joint-novel, Scenes from a Mall. The two attractive women will be cast as deity-heroines who're trying to avoid the monster of tribulation in a fictionalized 'maze' of American society in which they're re-presented as figurines seeking true diagonals in times of real depression!

They spotted the two damsels near a record-store and decided to re-cast them as Underworld rival-women. The two women, unnamed, are re-cast as a video-game and mythology-cinema pair named Sareena/Isobel and are portrayed as seeking resilience in tribulation in American pulpits reflecting tribulation and therefore 'avatars' of danger. Sareena/Isobel are different. One's more like a shopping shark while the other a capitalism reporter, and Amlan/Marcus take 'bets' (or wagers!) to see who's the best candidate to serve as the American (Seattle) optimism-heroine this Thanksgiving.

AMLAN: It seems Sareena is more the shark of dollars!
MARCUS: Yes, and Isobel is more like the 'angel' of consumerism witness.
AMLAN: I think Sareena offers Seattle residents a sense of courage and wit.
MARCUS: Well, Isobel offers the Seattle Starbucks consumer a sense of peaceful labor.
AMLAN: Who can face the proverbial 'red dragon' of tribulation-diagonals?
MARCUS: We'll place wagers to see who's more patient with a sarcastic store-salesman.
AMLAN: We'll pay the salesman to cast the staged pitch of frustration to measure patience!
MARCUS: The heroine with more patience will be the angel against the red dragon in Seattle.
AMLAN: I think Sareena was less patient because of her natural fiery-quality...and face.
MARCUS: True; however, I confess Isobel was a tad too meek or docile with her test in the mall-store.
AMLAN: I still wager Sareena serves as an energy-boost for the modern reader in Seattle.
MARCUS: I wager Isobel can still offer readers in Seattle a sense of mental patience in tribulation.
AMLAN: Sareena can face the red dragon with a sense of renewed spirit.
MARCUS: Isobel can be cast against the red dragon with a mental feeling of enduring calmness!
AMLAN: What exactly is this 'red dragon' of tribulation in Seattle, friend?
MARCUS: Perhaps it's an 'avatar' signifying an American 'sense' of dangers.
AMLAN: It's great we're using 'classical' iconography to write about Seattle resilience.
MARCUS: We might even see a 'red dragon' in our work, Scenes from a Mall, Amlan.

The Seattle-Thanksgiving note-session during this special holiday-season 'scenes from a mall' experience rendered great success(es) for Amlan/Marcus whose joint-novel made them heroes at Dartmouth in the new year. They'd account for what captured the general/magical human behaviors imprinted onto customs/couture that gave us a sense of socialized 'intelligence' during traffic-tribulation experiences like the Coronavirus tribulation that made for excellent American...dates!

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)