The Amaranthine Poet

Rorschach’s Journal…I mean, To Do List

December 9, 2009 on 3:24 am | In Everything | No Comments

One of the assignments in a class I’m taking was to write a story/character sketch through the format of a to do list. I seriously thought it was a super cool exercise! So, here’s mine. I’m sure you can guess to whom the to do list belongs to..(Especially since his name is in the title). If you’ve read Watchmen, you’ll get all the references. If you’ve watched the movie, you’ll get most of it! : )

Rorschach’s To Do List. October 13th, 1985:

1.Avoid landlady
2.Place face and clothes in alleyway dumpster
3.Approach newsstand
    a.Purchase New Frontiersman
    b.Remind vendor to keep my paper tomorrow
4.Visit Gunga Diner
   a.Purchase coffee
   b.Observe filth of society
   c.Replenish stock of sugar cubes
5.Comedian’s funeral
   a.Observe attendees
6.Return to alleyway
   a.Retrieve face
   b.Collect belongings
      1.Gloves
      2.Coat
      3.Shoes
7.Interrogate Moloch
  a. Somebody knows
9.Break into Dreiberg’s apartment
  a.Find food
     1.Preferably beans..cold
        a.Fine like that
  b.Warn Dreiberg of possible costumed hero murderer
10.Further investigate suspicion of Veidt’s homosexuality
    a.Break into personal computer
       1.Open file entitled “boys”
11.Investigate kidnap case
    a. Put down dogs
       1.All of them
12.Finish jobs police neglect
13.Return to apartment
    a.Avoid whorish landlady
    b.Remember to remove skin from head this time before sleep
      1.Place face under floorboard
14.Write in journal
15.Sleep until awakened