Max Payne

A sad tale of endured difficulty involving eventual escape, migration, and restored ambitions.

A haunting father-son 'tragedy' of sorts inspired loosely by Affliction (Nick Nolte). Thanks for reading, 

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Max Payne had this one treasure in his life, a green fairy figurine doll which he kept as his prized possession and considered more valuable than anything he'd ever had or believed he'd ever have and cast it as his special 'magic-deity' of fortune(s).

He'd dress up in business-suits for photos and write up poems to complement the 'professional' photos for his cyber-blogs about the splendor of theosophical imagination concerning the existence of fairies as a mythology study. He named his green-faerie figurine-doll Mabel and thought it was an ultimate 'trophy' of sentiments about life and death and of war and peace.

However, his stern and strict father in Derry (Northern Ireland) had moved from troubled Algeria with Max when they were younger, because he got an offer to manage a dairy-farm in the countryside/hills of Derry. He wanted Max, his only son, to grow up to become a serious professional. When his father read Payne's cyber-blogs about the 'ridiculous' existence of 'faeries' (winged tiny humanoid creatures of the Earth-forests with mystical messages of wisdom/warning), he got furious and decided to destroy the Mabel-figurine statue. He then told Max that he must abandon this fantasy altogether and find real friends. Max now knew his father and he would never think alike about the 'quality' of private study about the mysteries of the world they both shared!

MAX (Diary): I buried Mabel, my shattered dream-figurine in a corner of the Belfast cemetery and will remember her forever.

Max Payne ended up moving to the United States and started teaching theosophy at U-Chicago and converted to Catholicism and married an assistant-professor (Shelbye O'Meara) and would always remember his 'troubled past' lives in Algeria/UK as a haunting memory of things lost, things remembered, and things endured.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)