THE SAUSALITO THEODICY: Based on the Babylonian Theodicy written in 1000 BCE

Two characters mill about a park bench midday on the Sausalito pier. Riff-raff? Most likely, yet they seem to have some kind of marginal employment. One is hawking bread and books of poetry. A baker perhaps. The other has discount coupons for kayak rentals stuffed into his pockets and shirt. What are they up to? Waiting for the ferry from San Francisco to arrive seems like an answer for the local gendarmes. The baker refers to his companion as a sage. While the 'sage' or kayak master, refers to him as "Respected friend." They are preoccupied by Death who drives a black continental and the shade of Max von Sydow, who continues to meet up with Death to play chess. The Sufferer and Sage are the two characters who inhabit the world of the Babylonian Theodicy. Here they are recast as a baker and kayak master with the same concerns- at that intersection of religion and popular culture, here called pop religion. The themes within an ancient theodicy and the format are the same. Each time and place recreates this dialogue and herein we have the stuff that dreams are made of, or at least a ten minute play that plays on our fears of God and existence.