JOSEPH BFl..O J)SKY
The goat doesn 't co n sider th e ram an animal.
A kind of nati o nalism , isn 't it?
More exactly racism .
Chauvinism in any case .
Set them free and th ey' ll rip eac h o th er's throats.
She sure can handle Teddy, th o ugh.
Uh-huh . It wo rks. E spec ially sin ce he 's inanimate.
For you, Cec ilia, he's in animate. But fo r M atilda.
Petroovich '
What, Petrovi ch ? Loo k at that - an erecti o n!
But that's the camera , Petro vi ch.
Then it's perman ent.
Big deal, permanent' Just o n pills . .. Big dea l.
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Big deal? Uninterrupted transmission ? And sometimes even mu g shots? Pan. Pan.
Mug shot. Pan. Pan. Mug shots. Diaphragm.
Looks like you 've fo rgotte n how it's do ne, Cecilia.
Petrovich , how dare you '
Indeed, Petrovich.
Ah.
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They arc sitting n o w , I gu ess, out there in the W est,
staring at the screen and grinning . And o n th e scree n - it's us.
N-yes. This th ey wo n 't und erstand.
This, Gustav, nobod y ca n understand .
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On the oth er hand , th ey' ve got a clearer pi cture.
But with commercial interrupti o ns.
And she said, " permanent. "
Permanent, but with interrupti o n.
Why don't we just strip down
to
our underpants and wave a bo x of cornflakes.
Or ketchup.
It might only co nfuse th elTl .
Just as well .
And what's so good about that, Petrovich?
