letting on that the Canadians are cheating, no?
Claire: Sure. Mischa: OK, let me do some research on Canadian fisheries, Mischa: and come to understand the dispute. Mischa: Keep going on your end, Claire: To which I shall now return Claire: Thanks, Mate! Mischa: Good on ya, Sheela! This culminated in a three weeks of deadline-inspired collaboration. We holed up together in an apartment in Washington D.C. Mischa woke me up every morning by charging into my bedroom and yelling AIRBORNE! — the way the jumpmaster does in the parachuting scene from Loose Lips. Whenever we figured out how to solve a plot problem, we’d say “kudos!” like they do in CIA cable traffic. We both agreed that the characters in Loose Lips had become more real and meaningful to us than any of our friends. During those weeks, we discovered a previously unknown neural particle, the Creaton. Creatons are manufactured during sleep. They are highly unstable, and burn off quickly upon waking. Nothing new can be written without Creatons, and it’s very important to take a
