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He travels back to the club where he first played that night all those years ago. And he plays again. | He travels back to the club where he first played that night all those years ago. And he plays again. | ||
Mephistopheles emerges from the audience, delighted, but insists that it's probably time to return the trumpet. Joe refuses, insisting that if he did it would just be passed off onto someone else. He dashes outside and throws it under and oncoming car. Mephistopheles is irritated - the trumpet was meaningless, just a normal instrument, but all of the energy it accumulated is gone now, and it will take some time to repair his relationship with the loa. | Mephistopheles emerges from the audience, delighted, but insists that it's probably time to return the trumpet. Joe refuses, insisting that if he did it would just be passed off onto someone else. He dashes outside and throws it under and oncoming car. Mephistopheles is irritated - the trumpet was meaningless, just a normal instrument, but all of the energy it accumulated is gone now, and it will take some time to repair his relationship with the loa. | ||
As a punishment, Mephistopheles ensures that Joe becomes a footnote in jazz history and occasionally in the [[Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities|boulevard]] you can hear the echoing notes of a trumpet flit out, never acknowledged, never celebrated. | As a punishment, Mephistopheles ensures that Joe becomes a footnote in jazz history and occasionally in the [[Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities|boulevard]] you can hear the echoing notes of a trumpet flit out, never acknowledged, never celebrated. | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
*[[Joe Barker]] | * [[Joe Barker]] | ||
*[[Mephistopheles (Body and Soul)|Mephistopheles]] | * [[Mephistopheles (Body and Soul)|Mephistopheles]] | ||
*[[May Barker]] | * [[May Barker]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
