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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

 

The Mirror: No brains spin but those ensconced ...

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: Am I a reflection of Richard Foreman?
W: You certainly do quote him a lot.
M: Why are you so silent?
W: Well, I have been doing a lot of reading.
M: That's a very superficial response.
W: But the reading I'm doing is not superficial.
M: The entire world?
W: No, I am trying to limit my reading to the greats.
M: Voice-over: The dolphins say, we invented electricity.
W: Pop culture is obsessed with the intelligence of dolphins.
M: How are we going to decide?
W: Whether dolphins are deeply relevant to human destiny?
M: Yes, you've spotted the top layer of my façade.
W: What is under your façade?
M: So they only exchanged a few pleasantries?
W: They couldn't get beneath each other's façades.
M: Dear Max, there's a way to help us out of this dilemma.
W: Is Max a traditional Freudian psychoanalyst?
M: Well, I have been doing a lot of reading.
W: Have you read Freud?
M: You go into a trance.
W: Yes, I know, on a black Victorian horsehair couch.
M: Whether dolphins are deeply relevant to human destiny?
W: I don't think I'd be thinking about that.
M: Do they have money on your planet?
W: Some people on Earth have money.
M: You want to dismantle Google?
W: I have no designs on Google.
M: Well, mood comes into it as well.
W: Even in a "bad mood," I have no designs on Google.
M: You probably thought I was making an intellectual point, leaving when I did, but the fact of the matter is I had something to do.
W: When did you leave?
M: I see it.
W: You see your mistake?
M: Doesn't the brain spin sufficiently?
W: No brains spin but those ensconced in people riding the Whip.
M: We'd like to sum ourselves up.
W: Hard to do on a carnival ride.
M: Is that something about the way people die?
W: Only a very few people have died on carnival rides.
M: Furniture is never important?
W: Moving furniture is one way to look at a carnival ride.
M: Yes, those are cowboy and pirate things.
W: There is a Disney ride called "Pirates of the Caribbean."
M: Is the audience going to judge us?
W: No, the audience is too busy looking at Johnny Depp.
M: Actually, you'd be in a much worse place.
W: Which is worse: the ride or the movie?
M: No, I am trying to lose weight.
W: Better do something non-passive, then.
M: Often the case with things ineffable.
W: An active search is required.
M: No, the audience is too busy looking at Johnny Depp.
W: Or an animatronic version of same.
M: That's all I get, a "sort of" hello?
W: Do you want me to give you a more enthusiastic greeting?
M: There is a Disney ride called "Pirates of the Caribbean."
W: I can't make my greeting as exciting as a Disney ride.
M: One of the things that was written up was what was happening now to the newspaper, fluttering in the wind.
W: Do newspapers describe Disney rides?
M: Why bring (G)od into it?
W: Disney is not a deity.
M: (Long pause)
W: Well, I have to go anyway, goodbye!
M: It works only in reality?
W: Disney is not reality.
M: Yours also!
W: I'm not going to discuss my angle on reality now!
M: How can you be so sure?
W: Because I have to go.
M: Really?
W: Goodbye!

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