Richard Foreman - Music Stuff 3

7/27/2019 Richard Foreman - Music Stuff 3

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PROLOGUE (pulled in by girls & T falls off

T:I hate this! Its like-- riding into the future is suddenly against the law.

J: (thru hoop, fruit)Theres no problem, my friend--the future arrives all by itself--

T:Thats hard to believe

J:Please-- try some delicious fruit--

(fruit)

T:I know what this isThis is half eaten fruit, my friend

J:,Right. So by the time your intentions are realized, my friendyouve caught upwith yourself completely

T:

That can only mean, something is already dead, my friend.

J:Right! In this real worldmany things that exist in this real world are deadthings, my friend-- but this is not why this life in particular feels empty--

T:Listenif my life feels empty there is no resaon for this that can be explained

by anybody but myself!

BITE HARD BITE INTO THATVERY HARD, MY FRIEND

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J:

Listen!This should workright? But I cant get it to work

(Pause)Why doesnt this work

(wind up)

T:This isnt working. Why isnt this working

J:Listenmaybe its not working-- because you have to wind it up

T:OK. Ill wind it up.

J:Its not working because you have to wind it up

T:Its not working

(Pause)

I wind it up, and its not working

J:OK. Why isnt it working

(Pause)I think its not working becaue you have to wind it up

(falls)

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J:Hey-- this box just came for you

T:Theres a head inside that box

J:I hope not

T:Theres a head inside that box, I can tell

J:How can you tell if theres a head inside without looking inside

T:I can tell

J:Ok. This box comes for you.If theres a head insidenow--it belongs to you

(Pause)But I dont think theres a head in this box

T:I dont want to get a head for a present

J:It was no present

T:I didnt pay for it, did I

J:Maybe its not a head.

(Pause)Maybe you should look inside

(goes-- stops him)Wait a minute--I too, now, I too think its a head

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(Peek-- gives)Oh-oh-- its a head

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FREDS DOG

1 #5VOICE:What Fred holds in this box is his dog.

Sometimes, he takes it out for a walk.But-- This is risky.

J:Why is this risky? Dogs bite.Some dogs bite really hard

Bite hard. Bite really hard!

VOICEFred feeds his dog through a small drawer in the front of the box.Notice, when the drawer is open, food can be placed in the drawer

but the dog has no axcess to it yet, ie-- he cannot bite.Then , when the drawer is closed, the dog has acess to the food.But since the drawer is closed, there is no opening to the outside and againiethe dog cannot bite.

T:Bravo, bravo

Notice what Fred is wearing. This is what he sometimes wears when he is

walking his dog.His doglikes this outfitwe think.

Fred usually doesnt show this box.It makes people think less of him to thinkhe keeps his dog in a box.

J:

Listen-- I love my dog

T:Yes, we know that Fred.At least-- I know that

J:

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Thank you

T:Now, instead of talking about what you keep in that box

J:--My dog

T:Yes, but lets talk about something I keep in a different boxHummmm-- what do I keep in a box., tell mewhat do I keep in a box?

VOICE:Communism is dead, thank god, because communism treated human beings likedogs while other things like capitalism never treat perople like dogs butsometimes, people are nevertheless depressed. So for a depressed person--

having a dog could make somebodys life feel less empty, and that person wouldtend to feel less depressed if a dog made his life less empty

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J:

Ill will make you feel better if I give your injection

T:Oh? What part of the body will work best for this

J:Your arm, maybe

T:Yes. Thats where I usually get injections

J:Thats why I said your arm

T:But thats where I usually get them

(Pause)How about in my chest

J:That would hurt

T:Ok.Then Id rarther have it in my arm than my chest

J:I can do it in good your arm

T: (Pause)Are you sure it would hurt lots if you did it in my chest

J:

No. How can I be sure

T:Lets just skip getting an injection

J:I can do that-- but it would be to your benifit

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T:OK. Then do it in my arm for christ sake

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J:Yes. Thats the best place

T:

Is it really a god time for my injection?

J:Of course it isbut I can see-- you dont really want this injection.

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Whats the punishment you get?

J: (Pause)Do you begin to see things differently, my friend?

T:Wait a mnute-- I moved, but now I cant move

J:Are you seeing thinsg differently, my friend?

T:Yes I am

J:Thats the reward,, my friend

T:I dont feel like I got rewarded

(Pause)What I feel likeI feel like Im being punished

J:But you see things differently, of course

T:

I didyes. But now I dont-- yes

J:Why yes?

T:I cant move. I simply cant move you get it?

J:Yes. I get it!

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T;You really get it?

J:

Maybe I dont get it, but I get it

T:Without communismitstrue that my l,ife feels emptybut why is that?

J: (sits, up and down, books etc)Sit down and we talk about it

T:I cant sit down

J:You can sit down if you really want to sit down

T:Dont trick me

J:I wouldnt do that

T:

Dont trick me

J:How would I trick you?

T:To sit down in my book that means giving up on adventure.

J:Relax, nobodys going to make you sit down

T:Then take away that table

J:No

T:Why wont you take away that table!

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J:Why should I take away that table if you wont even sit down with me

T:

Sitting down means

J:I know. Sitting down means giving up on adventure

T:I can give up lots things but adventure is not something I want to give up on--

J:Nobody here wants to give up on adventure

(Pause)

If I wanted to give up on adventure, I would take away this table. But I dontwant to give up on adventure

T:OK. Sit down

J:No. I dont want to give up on adventure

T:

Then take away that table

J:I wont take away that table

T:Cant you see that table is really a problem

J:As long as we dont sit, its not a problem

(hesitate.)

T:OK. Then our problems are over

J:OK. If our problems are over, we can take away that table--Take away that table. Take away that table!

(done, also Ts restraints)

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T:Oh my God-- Look what fell on the floor

J:I dont see anything

T:Pick it up

J:I dont see anything. YOU pick it up

(pick up)Thats a match

T:Careful. Dont set something on fire with that match

J:Here. Put it in this match box, please

T:

Look whats on the floor

J:I dont see anything

T:ITS no longer on the floor, of course. Im holding it between my fingers

J:Isnt that a match?

T:Heres a box

J: (lit)Dont set things on fire, please

T:Dont set things on fire, right!

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J:(match out)

Its still a match

T:Dont set things on fire

J:I dont see it anymore

T:Nothing can be set on fire from this match

J:Why not, all of a sudden?

T:Ill prove it

(Pause)Ill put it back on the floor

J:No-- If you put it back on the floor, I wont be able to see it

T:

Now were in big trouble, right?

J:Wheres the match

T:If we cant see it, things could accidentally catch fire, right?

J:Why dont you put it in this box

T:I dont want to risk that box catching fire, of course

J:Lets all step on the match

T:If we cant see it, its just a guess

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J:OK. So we guess

(all step)

T: (Pause)I wish I still had that match

(Pause)I wanted to set things on fire, god damit!

J:Oh no, oh my God no!

(run off)Is it safe?

T:

Nothings on fire. Apparently

J:Nothings on fire. My life feels empty!

T:Everybodys life feels emptybut why is that?

J:Well, let me think about this. Who would set things on fire. Would dirty rotten

communists set things on fire?

T:Those dirty dogs would certainly set things on fire

J:Because communists are dangerous things. But dangerous things means anexciting life maybe with dangerous things

T:--What a banal view of the deeper human problem

J:Now there is no really dangerous things without communists

T:Your job is to dig it up up, my friend

J:

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J:Rightmy imagination is still alive inside me.

T:

Maybe, in todayss world -- those communists are hiding in space people.

J:But the fucking problem with space people is, maybe they dont exist

T:Then maybe we can just forget about the kind of people who set things on fire

J:No, no, nothen I go dead inside, I know that much about myself

T:Hey! I bet those fucking communists are hiding inside fucking foreign terrorists,who threaten to bomb and destroy everything that should be dependable andcomfortable likeyou knowmy house

J:Youve never invited me inside your house

T:Thats not the point

J:Of course thats not the point! Because communistsyesbad bad badbutwhat about some of those dangerous communists ideas, because thosedangerous communist ideas well, lets face itlike people sharing things.What does it mean if people start sharing things?

T:Listenpeople shan share things wtout being communists

J:

What will you share with me?

T:Lookwhat will you share with me, huh?

J:If I dont figure out something to share with you my friendthen I am a deadperson inside!

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OK

T:Because you dont like it, when suddenly, when you cant thinkIm safe behinda couple of locked doorsbut on the other side of a couple of locked doors--

here, there are some really great communists over there

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Share things with who? With communists?

J:Maybe and maybe not

T:Share what kind of things please? Personal and private things? I dont evenwant to think about this very much

J:Dinner!

T:What?

J:

Lets share dinner. Im hungryand I bet youre hungry, right? Because you arealways hungry

T:Ok. So Im hungry--

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T:Wheres dinner, for Christ sake--

J:It should be here any minute, according to my calculations

T:Wheres my dinner?

J:Ill get itand well share it

(Goes)T:Come back with my dinner please?

J:Its happening

T:

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I dont see it hapeningHe went to get dinner? This is questionable--

J: (Covered tray)Heres dinner

T:Lets see

J:Why?

T:Lets see dinner

(Opens)Cook that

J:Oh? That will take longer

T:I dont eat that stuf until its cooked

J:You were in a big hurry for dinner

T:I still am

J:Here it is

T:OK. Cook that

J:Then it wont be dinner for a while

T:I only eat that if its cooked

J: (Other in)Heres more dinner

T:

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Yes it does matter to me. What did I do with my hat

(Other in with similar hat)T:Is that your hat?

J:Oh?

T:(Pause, about his own)

Is this your hat?

J:I dont know

(Pause. dog in with hat)

It looks like my hat(Pause)

No, youre wearing it, so its probably not my hat

T:Its OK with me if this is your hat--

(other comes to take)-- just dont move any closer!

J:

Thats OK.(Pause)Thats not my normal hat, Id recognize it

T:This isnt my normal hat either, ok?

(take photo)Hey! I dont want to go down in posterity wearing this hat which I feel is hardlyappropriate

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J:Please look at some photographs of spirit beings that appeared on a role of film Iexposed without knowing what I was taking pictures ofhere they are

T:That looks like trick photography. In other words, history being altered behindmy back

J: (Pause, tears up)OK. That answers my question

T:Try photographing this beast which is lower than a human being should think ofhimself or herself

J:I dont have my real camera

T:Oh, reality is always available when there is a need for reality--

(Given to J)--Wait a minute. Ive heard that primative people not very evolvedsuch peoplethink that to have ones photo taken-- is to steal the soul. Id say this animal is aprimative than a human being-- so can you imagine how it relates--intellectually and spiritually to being photographed?

J:No, no idea about this

T:Kick it and find out

J:What

T:

I guarentee-- Youll get a more interesting photo if you kick it before snappingthe photo

J:I dont want to be eaten by this animal in retaliation, please.

T:Even if that happens, well have a photo by which to remember you by

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J:--No, that will be a photo of the eater, not the eaten

T:I can make the necessary connections

J:Should I always look to you for such answers?

T:See-- you get what you were looking for

J:I did?

T:Now take the photograph

(Done, of him)Hey-- not me. That dog, that dirty dog!

J:I can make the connection, thank you.

T:

OK. If you make a connection, you have an answer

J:Thank you my Friend

T:Youre welcome, my friend

(Shakes)Wait a minutejust imagine us shaking hands with that dirty animal! Haha!

J:

This is mans best friend, my friend.

T:I thinght I was your friend

J:Ok. Id like a hug

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T:OKyou, but not it.

(Hug)

J:Now. Give me the camera

(opens. takes out film)

T:Runining my film? Since I am your friend-- I dont care, I dont care, I reallydont care

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T:

Oh my God-- What is this thing that is fluttering inside my heart

J:Calm down. Dont be upset if I tell you-- I think deep down inside-- youre acommunist

T:No thank you. I can calm down by putting my hands on my chest and pressing

hard which does not sound like a communist--

J:

Thats your heart, my friend. You are pressing down on your heart

T:Is this really my heart

J:If your hands are on your chest, and its calming down, then its obviously yourheart

T:

Hey-- Its not calming down

J:Ok. Then maybe its not your real heart

T:Noyou said if its fluttering, it has to be be my heart

J:Thats what I think

T:Its my heart

(strut to music)Its OK if its fluttering a littlejust-- dont want it to flutter too much

J:Maybe

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J:That could be right

T:

Then get rid of it(other goes)

Now that I think about things-- Im sorry I told him to get rid of itBecause--I bet it was good for something after all--But thats not enough for me--

(Pause)If it doesnt fly, then being good for something else, isnt enough for me

J:I should feel OK about getting rid of it, but I dont

T:OK. Bring it back

(calls)Bring it back!

J: (back, in airplane)Oh, To late, Im afraid

T:

Its not too late God damit

J:Things are collapsing around us, Im afraid

T:Dont say that,I meanits Ok that some things are collapsingbut not everything should becollapsing.

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T:

What the hell is collapsing

J:A radio tower as tall as a mounain

T:How do you know that for a fact

J:You saidwhats collapsing--

(on tower)

VOICE:Attention. Communism is dead. Attention, communism ,redcommunism is dead, red, dead communism

T:Tell me this please. How tall is a mountain-- if I or if nobodyhas ever reachedthe top of that mountain

J:

It is very tall mountain--

T:Could I ever reach the top of that mountain before that mountain collapses

J:You could reach the top by climbing hand and foot . Which takes a long longtime

T:Could I reach the top in less time.

J:In an airplane maybe--

T:Only if that airplane still worked like an airplane

J:

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Its not working, Im afraid

T: (at wall)If I wind it upmaybe it starts working--

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J:The fighter airplanes are no longer working, my friend.

T:

I believe they are still working--

J:The fighter airplanes sayno--- we ancient communist fighter airplanes are alone on earthand to speak is therefore an exercise in futilityWe are blind. We are deaf. We have no tactile sensationWe consider ourselves the must frustrated of beings and drop many bombswithout hesitation

T:

(Pause)I am afraid of those bombs

J:The one thing we fighter air planes lust for-- is esthetic sensibility, but that too isdenied us.

T:Seen from the sky-- Those bombs are beautiful when they explode

J:Those bombs kill people, maybe by accident

T:N-- airplanes crash down on people.They run low on fuel, they start falling from the clouds down towards rottonsolid earth.

J:Then even airplanes would be terribly afraid , and they would be screaming--My gas tanks are empty, and I am falling down into the realm of the human

beings-- the terrible realm of human beings--

T:and then you are no longer alone, fighter airplaneif you are falling fromgreat heights, this always happens, does it not? And to commorate whatalways happens-- Lets have our photograph taken together, please?

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J:--Havent you heard, my Friend? To photograph me is to steal my soul

T:

Havent you heard my friend? Fighter communist airplanes have no soul. Whichis why, in the end, they too seek out the earth, and human beings--

J:No, real fighterplanes seek out neither the earth, nor human beings

T:Then for that reason, unhappy fighter airplane, you feel alone. Isolated--

J:It is not lonliness I am feeling --

T:your life feels empty, am right?Things are poised on the impossible mountain, right?I too-- am one of those people who has, somehow, glided through lifeBut this does not mean I have experienced no anguish.Noall men experience anguishBut mine, is unjustifiable--and for that reason, distilled, purified

--so its operation makes possible clear and lucid analysis(Pause)poised, on the very throne of my own imagining

J:Come down from such a throne, fellow human being

T:This is what a communist airplane is telling me?

J:

Come down and suffer the consequences, my friend

T:Afraid to descend, yet moved to anxiety by provocative threats

(Pause)I need to eat, after allHow will we eat from now on--

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J:We will each go foraging in the wide world

T:This doesnt work for me

J:Rightthis doesnt work. But this blind person will assist us both

T:But a blind person will have great difficulty foraging for food in this world

J.But we will be able to tell all blind people in which direction to begin searching

T:

Im afraid that from these heights, real things are not visible to me

J:Shall we descend, then-- and join the others?

T:Once, in the past, that was possible.Now, for reasons unfathomable,

it seems a very unlikely possibility--

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T:Why do I feel: Im drifting into another time zone completely.

J:Oh no. This is all aberent material, my friend

T:You mean-- mental materialAm I losing my train of thought?

(gift brought)Are we now in the same time zone?

(Pause)If I open this later-- will it hold the same gift it holds-- if I open it now

J:Gifts have different appearances, depending on different circumstances

T:This is serious business

J:

Stay with it, my friend

T:Im trying to stay with it

J:Stay with it harder my friend--

T:How can I keep from drifting

J:Stay with it

(Gift off)

T:Did that gift-- go away from me because it wasnt the right moment

J:

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If it was the right moment, wouldnt you have opened that gift?

T:Id have tried my best

J:Try

T:I cant try when its not here

J:What

T:My gift

J:Yes-- it was your gift, wasnt it

T:I tried

J:Thats it-- you didnt really try

T:I suddenly realized that life did not really NEED my efforts-- if I did nothing atall, life wouldnt really suffer.Instead, I could devote myself to having a different kind of experiences

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T:

But one thing I wish--I wish I had some really hard things to think about.Because now that communism is dead, my life feels empty!

J:Use mental muscles, my friend

T:I have too many mental muscles already

VOICE:Mans best friend, mans best friend is always avaiable when a man needs a

friend--

J:Use more mental muscles, my friend

T:With nothing to think about-- what good are my mental muscles

J: (Pause)Im not sure you have such big mental muscles, my friend

T:If my mental muscle has nothing to go to work onif nothing works--

Mans best friend. There is a need, for man to have a best friend

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J:

Please show me a different aspect of myself completely

T:A different aspect of myself is what is neededbecause nothing works. Ok? Allmy life longbeing a relatively sane person, a relatively good personthis hasdone NOTHING for me--

Mans best friend. There is a need for a friend. Mans need. Mans need

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T:This isnt working, god damit

J:Youre overdoing it, my friend

T:If this dam thing works-- then Ill be OK immediaely

J:It wont work any more

T:Then Im in big trouble

J:Try something different

T: (Pause)I cant think of anything different to try

J:Sit down and try something--

T:If I sit down, then its certainly not going to work

J:If you sit down, you could think of new approaches.

(Pause)Sit down!

T:OK. Where should I sit down.

(Pause)This isnt working

J:Give it time, maybe itll start working

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T:How much time am I supposed to give it

(Pause)Is this enough time

J:Theres no set limit

T:Then were in limbo

J:Yes. Limbo

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J:You see how the world works, my friend?

T:Not completely

J:I think youre getting hints

T:Id like more than hints

J:No, you wouldnt much like-- more than just a hint

T:No. Id like it clarified

J:That would be very bad for you my friend.

(Pause)

Do you know why?

T:What you think- - -

J:Yes. That is what I think

T:What

J:You could never handle more than just a hint

T:Look. Im relatively sane, Im relatively a good person. Whats it done for me?Nothing

J:

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We must not blame the world, my friend

T:Thats not what Im saying

J:We must not go off the deep end, my friend

(Pause)T:Maybe I should try going off the deep end

J:It will neer work

T:

OK. What works. Give me a hint what works

J:Youve had enough hints for a lifetime, my friend

(in box)

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T:Ok. Whats in that box, Fred

J:You know whats in the box, pathetic little man with no best friend

T:. I dont whats in there! And Im glad that communism is deadbecause I wasno friend of communists, thank god, and I am a man who can live withoutfriendsa if I have to live without friends--

J:My dog is in this box

T: (Pause)Lets open that box

J:If I open this box, then my dog gets out

T:

OK

J:No. Its not OK

T:Its a dangerous dog?

J:Very dangerous

T:Does it bite

J:It bites harder than you can imagine

:VOICE:Bite hard, bite very hard

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T:OK

J:

Not OK

T:Lets get things to defend ourselves

J:Theres no such thing

T:Protective gloves

J:That would only protect only one part of the body

T:Lets go sit up there--

J;Theres no room room for us up there

T:

I think theres room for both of us--

J:This is the kind of dog that could climb up after us

T:What dog. I dont even see a dog

J:You dont see it because its in my box

T:If I dont see it, then as far as Im concerned, it doesnt exist

J:OK. It doesnt exist

T:Now can we climb up there?

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(closes)

J:It doesnt look .like we can climb up after all--

T:Why the fuck not?

J:If I cant see it, it doesnt exist, right?

( opens, filled)

T:No, what you mean is, we hesitated, and other people beat us to the punch.

J:

OK. If thats truethen Ill open this box(done)

Hey. What the hell happened to my dog

(Pause)

T:It was never in there

J:

No. It was in here for a long time

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(in, dog suit, skull head)

VOICE:Do you recognize me now , my friends?

(Pause)Dont be fooled by this costume

J:No such thing

T:

.That costume has no effect on me

J:Put on the rest of that costume

T:No

J:Why not

T:If he puts on the rest of it, It will be unrecognizable

J:That would be OK. Just for a little. while

(Puts on head)

T:Does he bite?

VOICE:Bite hard, bite really hard

J:I think what hes really telling us is No, I dont realy bite

T:Really? I didnt pick up on that

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J:His signals are very subtle signals

T:

What signals

J:There were signals

T:If he doesnt bite, and hes a dogthen what does he do

J:Well, hes a dog. That enough

T:Theres something else inside that dog

J:If I cant see it, I dont think its really there

(dog off, other enterence, in big head)

T:That head, is really BIG. Do we agree thats a really big head??

J:Yes. We agree, that head is really BIG!!(Put on cart)

VOICE:OK EVERYBODY JOIN TOGETHER! AND PULL ONE REALLY BIG HEADTHAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN ON EARTH-- AND PULL THAT NEVERBEFORE SEEN BIG HEAD THIS ROOM!BECAUSE THE BIGGER THE HEADTHE BETTER THE CHANCE FORHAPPINESSHERE ON EARTH. HAPPINESS ON EARTH. HAPPINESS HEREON EARTH

T:I hope were doing the right thing

J:Pull God damit, dont ask-- just pull!

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