Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Excerpt from The Temprest, The Bawwey Fewawwi

           ALL                        He shall be known!                         He will be recogniz't:                        One of those PermPrest!                        And he dresses to the right!                                    HAIRLICK                        By the club he is in...                                    HALTER                        By the school he went to...                                     BOZO                         By the street he lives on...                                    STRAYCAN                        By the car he drives...                                    HERODEDAZE                        -- He doesn't have a caw. He wanted a caw, and we thought                        about it, but decided against it.                                     BOZO                         Well, what kind of car did he want?                                    HERODEDAZE                        Oh, it was expensive. Some fiwe-engine wed foweign caw, I                        don't wemembew.                                    STRAYCAN                        Was it a jaguar?                                    HERODEDAZE                        No, wasn't a jagywaw.                                    HALTER                        Was it a mercedes?                                    HERODEDAZE                        No, not a mewcedes?                                    HAIRLICK                        Was it a volvo?                                    HERODEDAZE                        No, not a wowwo.                                     BOZO                         Was it a citroen?                                    HERODEDAZE                        No, not a citwoen? I think it was italian.                            (laughter)                                     BOZO                         A Fiat?                                    HERODEDAZE                        No, but wait, it was a fewawi.                                    HAIRLICK, ET AL.                        a -- fe-wa-wi ?                            (more laughter)                                    HERODEDAZE                        Yes, that's it. a fewawi.                                    HAIRLICK, ET AL.                        well, yes, that is a good car, but it is expensive...                                    HERODEDAZE                        I shouldn't have been so headstwong, I should have given him                        the caw. I can't wemembew how many times we talked about                        it.                                     BOZO                         Oh, you had the ferrari parlais'?                                     HERODEDAZE                        Uh-huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh. Yes, we had the fewawi pawais'.                                      BOZO                         And you talked about it at length, thoroughly?                                    HERODEDAZE                        Yes, we thowoughly had our fewawi pawais. We tawked about                        aww the features, like the leathew intewior.                                     BOZO                         The leather interior, uh-huh, what color was the interior?                                    HERODEDAZE                        Bawwey. The colows wewe wed and bawwey in our fewawi                        pawais'.                                     BOZO                         But you were wary?                                    HERODEDAZE                        Yes, we wawily, but thowoughly had our wed and bawwey                        fewawi pawais'.                                      BOZO                         So you had these conversations often?                                    HERODEDAZE                        Oh, no wawely. Wawely and wawily, but thowoughly, we had                        our wed and bawwey fewawi pawais.                                     BOZO                         Did he make progress?                                    HERODEDAZE                        Oh, suwey. Swowy and suwey, wawely and wawily, but                        thowoughly we had our wed and bawwey fewawi pawais'.                                     BOZO                         So he was getting closer to getting the car?                                    HERODEDAZE                        Oh, bawely. We hadn't made that much pwogress, sowey and                        suwey, wawely and wawily, bawely, but thowoughly, we had our                        wed and bawwey fewawi pawais'.                                    HALTER                        That's enough of that.                        Let's find something else to do.                enter Aerial, playing a baseball game    

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