The Lariat

How absolutely synchronous!

I decided to do some free association writing, from the viewpoint of the main character in the play I'm writing.  I purchased a book from the used bookstore, that has a ton of off-the-wall photos.  The idea is to go through the photos, one at a time, and have my main character write about a memory she has concerning each photo.  The goal is to give me some insight into how my character thinks and who she is. 

The play is about her contemplating suicide by hanging.  

The first picture I decided to write about shows the front of a theater.  Immediately, I started writing about how she first met her husband there, when she went to watch 'The Creature From The Black Lagoon'.  I grabbed a name for the theatre, out of thin air, as I was typing like the devil was chasing me.  The name I grabbed?  Lariat.  When I was done writing her memory, I googled Lariat to see if there was such a theatre.  Don't ask me why.  I'm just into that kind of weird, synchronicity stuff.  

The result?  There wasn't a theatre with that name but when I googled the definition of the word Lariat, I came up with...

Lariat - a long light rope (as of hemp or leather) used with a running noose to catch livestock or with or without the noose to tether grazing animals : lasso.

How strange that the play is about hanging, and the name of the theatre is about a rope, with a noose that is used to tether animals.  Let's play the Twilight Zone's theme here.

The theater is also where she roped a husband, or he roped her, or they roped each other.  However you look at it, it's a very weird coincidence.

Script Girrl