Jess had with a few colleagues made a
cartoon that was sort of about itself. More precisely it was about
some dinosaurs who became skeptical when shown a cartoon about
dinosaurs. In it, the dinosaurs roared about that those writers of
such cartoons didn't care about “actual facts about us, about our
lifes, about our hardships!”
The children whom the cartoon was being
tested on were laughing enough for Jess and the others to begin to
feel they could fairly easily consider it done. Thereby they were
perhaps going to have it be released as a merchandise for those who
saw their competitor's dinosaur cartoons as really funny. Giggling at
this, they began to create a marketing strategy.
Meanwhile the children finished
watching it, and began leaving the little room that had been made
into a children's cinema for the purpose. They didn't mind,
especially since they found them to till be rather amused by it as
they were leaving. One of the kids, named Esmeralda, tried to ask one
of Jess' colleagues why the dinosaurs didn't treat the man who had
made the cartoon in the cartoon better. “Because,” she explained,
“he seemed after all to have seen them as his friends when he asked
them to watch it.” Esmeralda's half-brother and a friend of his
stood by and seemed interested in what the answer would be.
One man, named Fred, said that “The
cartoonists don't feel like caring to portray reality as it is, and
that's why they're angry!”
“Exactly!” a female coworker, Anna,
said. “Thereby they made the dinosaurs feel embarrassed, so that
they couldn't feel happy about what they saw! On the other hand, they
could have shown them another version of their story, one where they
didn't seem ridiculously happy and smiling all the time! Then,
perhaps, those small dinosaurs that he showed it to could have more
easily felt satisfied with themselves, despite being portrayed like
that in the first place!”
Esmeralda thereby wondered why the
satisfied dinosaurs wouldn't be there and fake that they were happy
about it, so that those who produced such a film “wouldn't,” as
she said it, “be able to tell wether or not it they were cool about
it?”
Anna smiled at her and said:
“Esmeralda! It's not our problem that those weird creatures might
be trying to fake something like that! Instead it's they who should
be grateful to us that we at least portray them fairly well and
lifelike!”
Esmeralda looked a bit dissatisfied,
but still promised to “try to think of it like that!” She looked
at her half-brother and said: “Simon, let's go! I bet they don't
think my father, who is a producer of such films is a fairly, even,
popular fellow with all those dinosaurs!”
Simon looked at her as she spoke and
then glanced at his friend. “I bet their' too obnoxious to figure
out that they are not the only ones who can become popular with the
public! ... So how about you, Steven?” he looked at his friend
again.
“How about me what?!”
“I mean do you feel that we should go
now, or tend to stay around just for a little answer to why they feel
our parents' production is not realistic enough?”
“No, I think we can go now! ... Or
actually, perhaps we should ask why they feel they aren't stuck up
about it.”
Jess broke in and said: “Look kids!
We're not into seriously threatening their business or reputation, if
that's what you think! We're simply kidding around a little!”
“Alright,” the kids said. “But
how come,” Simon's friend asked, “do they seem to be the one's
who needs to be kidded with, when they don't even seem as
unsuccessful as you guys?!”
“That's exactly why we feel like
provoking them about it! Don't you see? The company of her father and
other acquaintances of both you and her, I suppose, won't be harmed,
at least to the extent they realize that we also have a capacity to
perhaps join them, and become their coworkers!”
“Then why,” Esmeralda asked, “do
you feel like taunting them about the dinosaurs that they rely on for
their business?”
“I think we need to provoke them
about the kinds of things that seem a bit important, so that they'll
realize we don't feel ignorant of what they're dealing with!”
“I guess,” Steven proclaimed, “that
they don't feel like bothering with those who don't annoy them enough
to perhaps be proclaimed their enemies, then!”
Esmeralda looked at him. She seemed a
bit puzzled, and troubled. “I think we can work out something to
stop them all from feuding! But I feel there's not any point in not
feuding with those people unless they hint to us - I mean my father
and so - something about how they want be into cooperating with
them - I mean like us!”
Jess looked at her. “I feel that they
don't have to know yet what we prefer! But there's not any point, I
think, in pretending they're all that interesting as partners! But, I
want them to know that if they make an offer, then we will take it
seriously!”
“I feel,” Esmeralda answered, “that
there's no business in feeling that we aren't the superior ones,
since we have a business in the first place! Thereby I will say that
even though they have the capacity, they (that is you) will not try
to aspire for us to see why they're provoking us! I will say that
it's me interrogating them (that is you) that provided the
opportunity for us - I mean my father and his friends - to have a
good notion of why they are being ridiculed!”
“I guess,” Jess said thoughtfully,
“that a cunning kid such as the one I'm talking to will not be so
silly that she fakes that we didn't invite her here - partly in
order to see to it that she got her chance to form an opinion about
it! I suppose also that you other two, you two boys, will find it
that she - and you two as well - have gotten a chance to speak to
us about it. So how come they should have to think we're into being
their enemies?”
“I feel,” Steven replied, “that
there isn't any enterprise in letting her make her judgements by
herself!” eh pointed at Esmeralda while finishing that statement.
“Thereby I feel that Esmeralda's father, and his cousin, my uncle,
shouldn't be told that you've been fair enough unless you say to me
and her and Simon what they will be about, those styles that you can
perhaps introduce to us! I mean it's not enough that we who are kids
see that example of it! I say it would be enough to tell them you're
onto something! But we can't be telling our relatives that they
should trust those people who are likely to become their competitors
- even though they invited us to see one small example - or isn't
it? - of what they can do!”
