PROLOGUE (pulled in by girls & T falls off

T:

I hate this! It’s like-- riding into the future is suddenly against the law.

J: (thru hoop, fruit)

There’s no problem, my friend--the future arrives all by itself--

T:

That’s hard to believe

J:

Please-- try some delicious fruit--

(fruit)

T:

I know what this is—This is half eaten fruit, my friend

J:,

Right. So by the time your intentions are realized, my friend—you’ve caught up with yourself completely

T:

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

J:

Right! In this real world—many things that exist in this real world are dead things, my friend-- but this is not why this life in particular feels empty--

T:

Listen—if my life feels empty— there is no resaon for this that can be explained by anybody but myself!

“BITE HARD BITE INTO THAT VERY HARD, MY FRIEND”

1)

5-48

6-31

J:

Listen!

This should work—right? But I can’t get it to work

(Pause)

Why doesn’t this work

(wind up)

T:

This isn’t working. Why isn’t this working

J:

Listen—maybe it’s not working-- because you have to wind it up

T:

OK. I’ll wind it up.

J:

It’s not working because you have to wind it up

T:

It’s not working

(Pause)

I wind it up, and it’s not working

J:

OK. Why isn’t it working

(Pause)

I think it’s not working becaue you have to wind it up

(falls)

2)

5-59

6-43

4)

5-35

6-45

J:

Hey-- this box just came for you

T:

There’s a head inside that box

J:

I hope not

T:

There’s a head inside that box, I can tell

J:

How can you tell if there’s a head inside without looking inside

T:

I can tell

J:

Ok. This box comes for you.

If there’s a head inside—now--it belongs to you

(Pause)

But I don’t think there’s a head in this box

T:

I don’t want to get a head for a present

J:

It was no present

T:

I didn’t pay for it, did I

J:

Maybe it’s not a head.

(Pause)

Maybe you should look inside

(goes-- stops him)

Wait a minute--

I too, now, I too think it’s a head

(Peek-- gives)

Oh-oh-- it’s a head

T:

Take it back

J:

There’s a head in that box

T:

Take it back and put it outside

J:

OK

(Goes)

Come to think of it—he looked in that box,-- but me, I never looked inside that box!

(J return with obviously different box)

Hey! That’s a different box completely!

FRED’S DOG

1 #5

VOICE:

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!”

VOICE

Fred 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 again

ie

the dog cannot bite.

T:

Bravo, bravo

Notice what Fred is wearing. This is what he sometimes wears when he is walking his dog.

His dog

likes this outfit

we think.

Fred usually doesn’t show this box.

It makes people think less of him to think

he keeps his dog in a box.

J:

Listen-- I love my dog

T:

Yes, we know that Fred.

At least-- I know that

J:

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 box

Hummmm-- what do I keep in a box., tell me—what do I keep in a box?

VOICE:

Communism is dead, thank god, because communism treated human beings like dogs while other things like capitalism never treat perople like dogs but sometimes, people are nevertheless depressed. So for a depressed person-- having a dog could make somebody’s life feel less empty, and that person would tend to feel less depressed if a dog made his life less empty

5)

5-23

6-23

J:

I’ll 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. That’s where I usually get injections

J:

That’s why I said your arm

T:

But that’s where I usually get them

(Pause)

How about in my chest

J:

That would hurt

T:

Ok.Then I’d 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:

Let’s just skip getting an injection

J:

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

T:

OK. Then do it in my arm for christ sake

J:

Yes. That’s the best place

T:

Is it really a god time for my injection?

J:

Of course it is—but I can see-- you don’t really want this injection.

6)

5-15

6-18

(cloak skirt and 2 staffs)

T:

I don’t want this any more than I want my injection.

I can’t move in this thing

J:

Try moving a little bit

T:

I can’t move in this thing

J:

If you move even a little bit, you’re going to get punishement

T:

Then it’s OK. Because I can’t move

J:

Move you bastard. Take your punishment

T:

If taking my punishment were followed by a reward, then maybe I could move

J:

Too bad-- Punishment is never rewarded

T:

Good. There are two reasons for me not to move

J:

Look at me--. I’m moving pretty good

T:

What’s the reward you get?

J:

There is no reward for this

T:

What’s the punishment you get?

J: (Pause)

Do you begin to see things differently, my friend?

T:

Wait a mnute-- I moved, but now I can’t move

J:

Are you seeing thinsg differently, my friend?

T:

Yes I am

J:

That’s the reward,, my friend

T:

I don’t feel like I got rewarded

(Pause)

What I feel like—I feel like I’m being punished

J:

But you see things differently, of course

T:

I did—yes. But now I don’t-- yes

J:

Why yes?

T:

I can’t move. I simply can’t move – you get it?

J:

Yes. I get it!

T;

You really get it?

J:

Maybe I don’t get it, but I get it

T:

Without communism—it’strue that my l,ife feels empty—but why is that?

J: (sits, up and down, books etc)

Sit down and we talk about it

T:

I can’t sit down

J:

You can sit down if you really want to sit down

T:

Don’t trick me

J:

I wouldn’t do that

T:

Don’t trick me

J:

How would I trick you?

T:

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

J:

Relax, nobody’s going to make you sit down

T:

Then take away that table

J:

No

T:

Why won’t you take away that table!

J:

Why should I take away that table if you won’t 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 don’t want to give up on adventure

T:

OK. Sit down

J:

No. I don’t want to give up on adventure

T:

Then take away that table

J:

I won’t take away that table

T:

Can’t you see that table is really a problem

J:

As long as we don’t sit, it’s 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 T’s restraints)

8)

5-39

6-16

T:

Oh my God-- Look what fell on the floor

J:

I don’t see anything

T:

Pick it up

J:

I don’t see anything. YOU pick it up

(pick up)

That’s a match

T:

Careful. Don’t set something on fire with that match

J:

Here. Put it in this match box, please

T:

Look what’s on the floor

J:

I don’t see anything

T:

IT’S no longer on the floor, of course. I’m holding it between my fingers

J:

Isn’t that a match?

T:

Here’s a box

J: (lit)

Don’t set things on fire, please

T:

Don’t set things on fire, right!

J:

(match out)

It’s still a match

T:

Don’t set things on fire

J:

I don’t see it anymore

T:

Nothing can be set on fire from this match

J:

Why not, all of a sudden?

T:

I’ll prove it

(Pause)

I’ll put it back on the floor

J:

No-- If you put it back on the floor, I won’t be able to see it

T:

Now we’re in big trouble, right?

J:

Where’s the match

T:

If we can’t see it, things could accidentally catch fire, right?

J:

Why don’t you put it in this box

T:

I don’t want to risk that box catching fire, of course

J:

Let’s all step on the match

T:

If we can’t see it, it’s just a guess

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:

Nothing’s on fire. Apparently

J:

Nothing’s on fire. My life feels empty!

T:

Everybody’s life feels empty—but 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 an exciting 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:

What.

T:

-- those dirty communists hiding someplace around here—

J:

Right— but are they hiding in my imagination

T:

Oh I don’t follow that

J:

Right—my imagination is still alive inside me.

T:

Maybe, in todays’s world -- those communists are hiding in space people.

J:

But the fucking problem with space people is, maybe they don’t exist

T:

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

J:

No, no, no—then 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 and comfortable like—you know—my house

J:

You’ve never invited me inside your house

T:

That’s not the point

J:

Of course that’s not the point! Because communists—yes—bad bad bad—but what about some of those dangerous communists ideas, because those dangerous communist ideas— well, let’s face it—like people sharing things. What does it mean if people start sharing things?

T:

Listen—people shan share things wtout being communists

J:

What will you share with me?

T:

Look—what will you share with me, huh?

J:

If I don’t figure out something to share with you my friend—then I am a dead person inside!

T:

Are you a dead communist, my friend?

J:

No, I am just dead inside—that is not the same thing--

T:

I think you’re running on empty, my friend

J:

Then you too, are running on empty, my friend

T:

Oh, there’s a big difference between us, bceuaes I would never, ever say what you wanna say but don’t have the guts to say it—loud and clear-- “Without communists, my life is empty!”

J: (Pause, quiet)

OK. You son of a bitch. You make me say it-- Without the communists, my life feels empty

T:

Hey. You wanna live in a communist world, my Friend

J;

I wouldn’t like that really

T:

But without all those communists—“my life is empty”?

J:

Maybe

T:

As long as those communists—those dirty lying communist dogs—stay somplace far away from somplace close to right here, god damnit!

J:

OK.

T:

Lock those doors

J:

OK

T:

Because you don’t like it, when suddenly, when you can’t think—I’m safe behind a couple of locked doors—but on the other side of a couple of locked doors-- here, there are some really great communists over there

J:

Maybe that’s OK

T:

Comunists

J:

Maybe

T:

Because you don’t much like it right here, where eveyrthing is Ok --compared to dreamins about old fashioned Communist places behind big locked doors, with lots of communists who are sharing things.

J:

It’s no really ok here, please

T:

What’s wrong with it right here, right now

J:

Well—aside from the fact of no comminiusts—

T:

Yes?

J:

Something else is missing

T:

What’s missing?

(Pause)

Communists?

J:

Well—something like, dreams about communists

T:

Ok. What’s so good about dreams about communists—

J:

Well, it would be nice to share things, wouldn’t it?

T:

Share things with who? With communists?

J:

Maybe and maybe not

T:

Share what kind of things please? Personal and private things? I don’t even want to think about this very much

J:

Dinner!

T:

What?

J:

Let’s share dinner. I’m hungry—and I bet you’re hungry, right? Because you are always hungry

T:

Ok. So I’m hungry--

5-43

6-21

T:

Where’s dinner, for Christ sake--

J:

It should be here any minute, according to my calculations

T:

Where’s my dinner?

J:

I’ll get it—and we’ll share it

(Goes)

T:

Come back with my dinner please?

J:

It’s happening

T:

I don’t see it hapening

He went to get dinner? This is questionable--

J: (Covered tray)

Here’s dinner

T:

Let’s see

J:

Why?

T:

Let’s see dinner

(Opens)

Cook that

J:

Oh? That will take longer

T:

I don’t eat that stuf until it’s 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 won’t be dinner for a while

T:

I only eat that if it’s cooked

J: (Other in)

Here’s more dinner

T:

Is that cooked

J:

Not yet

T:

Cook that- cook them both!

J:

One can get cooked. The other can’t be cooked

T:

That’s OK

J:

Which one should be cooked

T:

Mine should get cooked

J:

Which one is yours?

T:

There’s no way I can decide that

J:

Then neither gets cooked

T:

OK. Take them away

(Pause)

Take them away

(Done)

Let’s have dinner

J:

We’ll have to go looking for it

T:

OK. go looking for dinner god damnit!

10)

5-27

6-28

J:

I can’t go looking for dinner without my hat

What did I do with my hat

(Pause)

I don’t like leaving my head uncovered for long periods of time

T:

I neevr paid much attention to whether your head was covered or uncovered

J:

If my head is uncovered, all kinds of crazy ideas come pouring out the top of my head—

T:

That’s what I say—a head full of crazy ideas—

J:

OK. Then maybe I am still capable of surprising people

T:

I would like it very much if you could surprise me, my friend.

(look, get small round hat)

What made that happen

J:

I don’t know

(Pause)

But now I feel like the top of my head is properly covered

T:

Your head, yes

J:

Even if this this isn’t my normal hat

T:

That doesn’t matter to me

J:

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 don’t know

(Pause. dog in with hat)

It looks like my hat

(Pause)

No, you’re wearing it, so it’s probably not my hat

T:

It’s OK with me if this is your hat--

(other comes to take)

-- just don’t move any closer!

J:

That’s OK.

(Pause)

That’s not my normal hat, I’d recognize it

T:

This isn’t my normal hat either, ok?

(take photo)

Hey! I don’t want to go down in posterity wearing this hat which I feel is hardly appropriate

J:

Please look at some photographs of spirit beings that appeared on a role of film I exposed without knowing what I was taking pictures of—here they are

T:

That looks like trick photography. In other words, history being altered behind my back

J: (Pause, tears up)

OK. That answers my question

T:

Try photographing this beast which is lower than a human being should think of himself or herself

J:

I don’t have my real camera

T:

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

(Given to J)

--Wait a minute. I’ve heard that primative people not very evolved—such people think that to have one’s photo taken-- is to steal the soul. I’d say this animal is a primative 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-- You’ll get a more interesting photo if you kick it before snapping the photo

J:

I don’t want to be eaten by this animal in retaliation, please.

T:

Even if that happens, we’ll have a photo by which to remember you by

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:

You’re welcome, my friend

(Shakes)

Wait a minute—just imagine us shaking hands with that dirty animal! Haha!

J:

This is man’s best friend, my friend.

T:

I thinght I was your friend

J:

Ok. I’d like a hug

T:

OK—you, but not it.

(Hug)

J:

Now. Give me the camera

(opens. takes out film)

T:

Runining my film? Since I am your friend-- I don’t care, I don’t care, I really don’t care

11)

1-1

2-8

T:

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

J:

Calm down. Don’t be upset if I tell you-- I think deep down inside-- you’re a communist

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:

That’s 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 it’s calming down, then it’s obviously your heart

T:

Hey-- It’s not calming down

J:

Ok. Then maybe it’s not your real heart

T:

No—you said if it’s fluttering, it has to be be my heart

J:

That’s what I think

T:

It’s my heart

(strut to music)

It’s OK if it’s fluttering a little—just-- don’t want it to flutter too much

J:

Maybe

T:

What

J:

Maybe it’s time to do something else with your hands

T:

OK

(keep walking)

But what’s this thing that’s still fluttering in my chest, god damit. Is it my heart, or is it somebody else’s god dam heart which is inside me because of a big mistake.?

“Bite hard, bite down hard”

T:

No. This is my heart—this is my own heart which I do not allow to fly outside my own chest-- because my heart has its home—here inside my chest. Safe and sound forever and forever and forever inside me where it belongs!

12)

1-22

2-26

J: (in airplane)

This doesn’t fly, my friend

T:

You tried to fly it?

J:

I tried it. This doesn’t fly

T:

What does it do

J:

This doesn’t fly

T:

If it doesn’t fly-- get rid of it

J:

I hate to do that

T:

Don’t waste your tears on --it doesn’t fly

J:

I bet it’s still good for something, however

T:

Look, it doesn’t fly

J:

Sometimes, maybe it flies

T: (holds chest)

Oh my god it’s flutteing like crazy--

J:

I think you’re right, my friend

T:

Am I right when I say-- get rid of the god damn thing if it doesn’t fly!?

J:

That could be right

T:

Then get rid of it

(other goes)

Now that I think about things-- I’m sorry I told him to get rid of it

Because--

I bet it was good for something after all--

But that’s not enough for me--

(Pause)

If it doesn’t fly, then being good for something else, isn’t enough for me

J:

I should feel OK about getting rid of it, but I don’t

T:

OK. Bring it back

(calls)

Bring it back!

J: (back, in airplane)

Oh, To late, I’m afraid

T:

It’s not too late God damit

J:

Things are collapsing around us, I’m afraid

T:

Don’t say that,

I mean—it’s Ok that some things are collapsing—but not everything should be collapsing.

13)

1-25

2-33

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 said—what’s 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 nobody—has ever reached the 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 long time—

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:

It’s not working, I’m afraid

T: (at wall)

If I wind it up—maybe it starts working--

J:

The fighter airplanes are no longer working, my friend.

T:

I believe they are still working--

J:

The fighter airplanes say

no--- we ancient communist fighter airplanes are alone on earth

and to speak is therefore an exercise in futility

We are blind. We are deaf. We have no tactile sensation

We consider ourselves the must frustrated of beings and drop many bombs without 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 is denied 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 rotton solid 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 airplane—if you are falling from great heights, this always happens, does it not? And to commorate what always happens-- Let’s have our photograph taken together, please?

J:

--Haven’t you heard, my Friend? To photograph me is to steal my soul

T:

Haven’t you heard my friend? Fighter communist airplanes have no soul. Which is 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 life

But this does not mean I have experienced no anguish.

No

all men experience anguish

But 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 all

How will we eat from now on--

J:
We will each go foraging in the wide world

T:

This doesn’t work for me—

J:

Right—this doesn’t 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:

I’m 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--

14)

1-30

2-19

T:

Why do I feel: I’m drifting into another time zone completely.

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

T:

You mean-- mental material

Am 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:

I’m 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 wasn’t the right moment

J:

If it was the right moment, wouldn’t you have opened that gift?

T:

I’d have tried my best

J:
Try

T:

I can’t try when it’s not here

J:

What

T:

My gift

J:

Yes-- it was your gift, wasn’t it

T:

I tried

J:

That’s it-- you didn’t really try

T:

I suddenly realized that life did not really NEED my efforts-- if I did nothing at all, life wouldn’t really suffer.

Instead, I could devote myself to having a different kind of experiences

15)

1-66

2-41

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:

Man’s best friend, man’s 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)

I’m not sure you have such big mental muscles, my friend

T:

If my mental muscle has nothing to go to work on—if nothing works--

“Man’s best friend. There is a need, for man to have a best friend”

16)

1-70

2-56

J:

Please show me a different aspect of myself completely

T:

A different aspect of myself is what is needed—because nothing works. Ok? All my life long—being a relatively sane person, a relatively good person—this has done NOTHING for me--

“Man’s best friend. There is a need for a friend. Man’s need. Man’s need”

17)

1-85

2-85

T:

This isn’t working, god damit

J:
You’re overdoing it, my friend

T:

If this dam thing works-- then I’ll be OK immediaely

J:

It won’t work any more

T:

Then I’m in big trouble

J:

Try something different

T: (Pause)

I can’t think of anything different to try

J:

Sit down and try something--

T:

If I sit down, then it’s 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 isn’t working

J:

Give it time, maybe it’ll start working

T:

How much time am I supposed to give it

(Pause)

Is this enough time

J:

There’s no set limit

T:

Then we’re in limbo

J:

Yes. Limbo

18)

1-88

2-91

J:

You see how the world works, my friend?

T:

Not completely

J:

I think you’re getting hints

T:

I’d like more than hints

J:

No, you wouldn’t much like-- more than just a hint

T:

No. I’d 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. I’m relatively sane, I’m relatively a good person. What’s it done for me? Nothing

J:

We must not blame the world, my friend

T:

That’s not what I’m 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:

You’ve had enough hints for a lifetime, my friend

(in box)

19)

1-95

2-96

T:

Ok. What’s in that box, Fred

J:
You know what’s in the box, pathetic little man with no best friend

T:

. I don’t what’s in there! And I’m glad that communism is dead—because I was no friend of communists, thank god, and I am a man who can live without friendsa if I have to live without friends--

J:

My dog is in this box

T: (Pause)

Let’s open that box

J:

If I open this box, then my dog gets out

T:

OK

J:

No. It’s not OK

T:

It’s a dangerous dog?

J:

Very dangerous

T:

Does it bite

J:

It bites harder than you can imagine

:VOICE:”Bite hard, bite very hard”

T:

OK

J:

Not OK

T:

Let’s get things to defend ourselves

J:

There’s no such thing

T:

Protective gloves

J:

That would only protect only one part of the body

T:

Let’s go sit up there--

J;

There’s no room room for us up there

T:

I think there’s room for both of us--

J:

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

T:

What dog. I don’t even see a dog

J:

You don’t see it because it’s in my box

T:

If I don’t see it, then as far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t exist

J:

OK. It doesn’t exist

T:

Now can we climb up there?

(closes)

J:

It doesn’t look .like we can climb up after all--

T:

Why the fuck not?

J:

If I can’t see it, it doesn’t exist, right?

( opens, filled)

T:

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

J:

OK. If that’s true—then I’ll 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

20)

1-97

2-94

(in, dog suit, skull head)

VOICE:
Do you recognize me now , my friends?

(Pause)

Don’t 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 he’s really telling us is No, I don’t realy bite

T:

Really? I didn’t pick up on that

J:

His signals are very subtle signals

T:

What signals

J:

There were signals

T:

If he doesn’t bite, and he’s a dog—then what does he do

J:

Well, he’s a dog. That enough

T:

There’s something else inside that dog

J:

If I can’t see it, I don’t think it’s really there

(dog off, other enterence, in big head)

T:

That head, is really BIG. Do we agree that’s 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 HEAD THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN ON EARTH-- AND PULL THAT NEVER BEFORE SEEN BIG HEAD THIS ROOM!

BECAUSE THE BIGGER THE HEAD—THE BETTER THE CHANCE FOR HAPPINESS—HERE ON EARTH. HAPPINESS ON EARTH. HAPPINESS HERE ON EARTH

T:

I hope we’re doing the right thing—

J:

Pull God damit, don’t ask-- just pull!

THE END