Banquo was in a good mood as he entered the Second Mrs. De Winter's hidden room. The Second Mrs. de Winter was already in there, sticking pins in apples. And listening to a record.
"What are you listening to?", Banquo asked.
"It's called 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' and it's by Neutral Milk Hotel. It's kind of a concept record about Anne Frank."
Banquo listened.
"He's singing about a two-headed boy trapped in a glass jar. I must have missed that part of the Diary of Anne Frank."
"It's not a one-for-one comparison", the Second Mrs. de Winter said. She stopped sticking pins in apples. "It's more imagistic than that."
Banquo listened some more.
"'How I would push my fingers through your mouth to make those muscles move?' Anne Frank didn't do that either. You're making the concept record stuff up. This is like when everybody said 'Exile in Guyville' was an answer record to 'Exile on Main Street' despite the songs on both albums not really having anything to do with each other. You're just parroting whatever they're saying on pitchfork about this. Admit it."
The Second Mrs. de Winter screamed.
"You. Have. No. Soul." She threw Banquo out of the room and sang along really loudly and off-key with "Holland, 1945." It was awesome.
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