It's been said that good actors adopt the character they're to play, while great actors are themselves adopted - some might even say
possessed
- by the character they're to play. If you'll indulge me for a few minutes, I'll tell you why I think that the latter is real.
Sly and I were sitting around on his new couch on a Thursday night, divvying up the fee from our latest client. BTW, Sly's apartment is definitely looking better these days, but I can still remember the first night he had me entertain a client here on his old couch to work off a blackmail price. I was so nervous. Lord,
that
was a while ago! I remember how surprised we both were to discover both my latent talent and that I rather
liked
the work. Hey, after all, who doesn't like to do what you're good at? He suggested we partner up, and I accepted. I've never looked back.
Our little two-person enterprise has done quite well since then, with Sly finding clients for me and me providing the sex. The new furnishings, which I picked out for him, attest to that.
"Princess, you know a guy called Mozart?" Sly was all innocence.
"Mozart?" I said wonderingly. Sly's entire background was the rough streets, so I couldn't imagine where this came from.
"Mozart? As in Wolfgang Amadeus?"
"I don't know nothin' about wolves, here," he said. "So, who is he?"
"He was a famous composer," I said, stressing the 'was'. He lived in the seventeen hundreds and wrote lots of symphonies, operas, and other musical stuff. A genius."
"Operas, hunh? Seventeen hundreds, you say. So he's dead?"
"Yes, Sly, he's dead. Why do you ask? I have to say, you've certainly aroused my curiosity."
Sly's eyes darted to my breasts, which were more revealed than concealed by the diaphanous black nylon teddy I'd worn for the client's pleasure.
"My
curiosity
, Sly. I said you had aroused my
curiosity
."
"Oh."
"Okay, Sly. Look, I know you wouldn't recognize an opera if one fell on your head. So just where are we going with all this?"
Sly grimaced. "Fuck. Don't get all hoity-toity on me, Princess. So you went to college. Good for you."
"Sorry," I said contritely. Sly resents the opportunities I've had that were denied to him. But underneath the roughness he's a good guy. He takes good care of me, and not just because I produce for him. We've learned to respect one another. I didn't mean to hurt him.
"S'okay," he said grudgingly. "Anyway, this guy contacts me about some guy he works for who's an opera singer. This singer is gonna be appearing at the Met in some opera about an Italian called Don Giovanni."
"Don Juan", I said.