The 'Gifted' Amlan Satan

Strange fable, inspired by a movie, about an eccentric 'dark antihero' whose flight into delusion leads to an escapist 'vision' of art-distance(s).

Signing off in the end with this homage to a classic remake, The Talented Mr. Ripley (Matt Damon). Enjoy, 

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They were the perfect young Aryan couple, the Ripleys, and they'd been living off the princely inheritance of the beau's father, and the girlfriend, the lovely Marge, was a picture of wealth and magic. This is what drew in Amlan Satan to Venice, where the Ripleys were vacationing, idling time on the waters, and Amlan Satan took iPhone-photos of the gorgeous people that reminded him of the modern cinematic landscape.

AMLAN SATAN: Venice is everything my ambition draws, and I'm going to make a sculpture of Marge Ripley here in the water.

Amlan Satan befriended Marge and her prince-beau Tom, and the trio hopped around Venice, as Satan fooled them into thinking he'd been a student of world-travel, when he was actually a rogue agent of the 'Foreign Irish Republican Army' (F-IRA), performing blood-diamond heists from baron safe-boxes containing the hellish 'conflict-zone' gems from Sierra Leone which would devastate Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) peace-talks between Sinn Fein and Parliament regarding affirmative-action employment assistance programs for the Catholic underclass strained by poverty and socioeconomics conditions disparities creating sectarian troubles. Amlan Satan simply 'fled' from the maelstrom.

AMLAN SATAN: I've studied copycat-music and shall become a 'paragon' of Aryan-mannerisms and steal the Ripley cyber-art.

This 'art' was a cyber-avatar pencil-sketch of Da Vinci like youthful energy and Tom kept it in a Venice mod-art museum for Marge. Amlan Satan meanwhile boasted his Rickey Henderson A's Topps baseball-card, which he carried everywhere like a transit-passport of world-treasure(s). He showcased it to Tom Ripley who meanwhile boasted of the mod-artwork(s) in the Venice museum holding his prized possessions.

TOM: You want to 'show-off' this strange Rickey Henderson baseball-card to me, Amlan Satan, as if you're a sports dude!

Amlan Satan broke into the Venice museum after stealing a special prince-key which Tom Ripley kept in his Venice apartment with Marge. He swapped the cyber-avatar art-pencil masterpiece, a warrior-princess (Kitana) from Mortal Kombat lore in video-game fanfare. It was a modest work of referenced 'entertainment' media, but it was much 'finer' than Amlan Satan's prized baseball-card(s), including his Rickey Henderson A's diamond.

Amlan Satan then snuck back into the Ripley apartment and poisoned Tom's breakfast milk so as to hide/obscure any evidence of his relation with the Ripleys, since only Tom Ripley would suspect Amlan Satan was the 'culprit' in any media-gossip drawing Kitana-artwork swap dialogue. Tom the fallen prince was buried in a Venice cemetery with great laurels.

MARGE: Why'd you come to see me, Amlan Satan?
AMLAN: I wanted to show you this Kitana-artwork replica, Marge Ripley!
MARGE: Me thinks I'm getting an eerie feeling of goosebumps, old pal.

AMLAN: I merely wanted to wish you farewell...I'm retiring to Denmark!
MARGE: I won't forget our time together in Venice (with my prince Tom).

AMLAN: I'm gifting you my Rickey Henderson card, for our memory of time together, Marge Ripley.

MARGE: You're a gifted and strange sort, Amlan Satan...but I suppose you're simply a 'man' of darkness.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)