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Timing [[Cat enjoys an ice cream cone.]] / <> / [[The ice cream falls on to the floor.]] / Cat: Five second rule! / [[Cat checks his watch outside a building marked "Parole Office."]] / Cat: Fifteen minute rule! / [[Cat looks at a plaid shirt in a store window.]] / [[Cat comes out of the store dressed in a K records shirt, plaid shirt, sunglasses and a wool beanie.]] / Cat: Twenty year rule! / [[Cat looks in a garbage can.]] / [[He checks behind him]] / [[Cat stuffs food from the garbage can into his mouth.]]
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State of Grace [[Cat and Girl drive over a hill.]] / Girl: Sometimes I'm standing in the kitchen and I think / Girl: this mug could slip right through my fingers / Girl: our grasp of control is so tenuous / [[They drive off a cliff and fall through the air.]] / Girl: our devotion to it - too - / [[They land.]] / Girl: one moment - one quick motion - and everything could be different. / [[They sit.]] / Girl: Sometimes I think - I could drive right off the road - / Girl: but I haven't / [[Cat covers his eyes with his hands.]] / Girl: yet.
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Minus One [[Cat and Girl are taking a walk. The sun is shining and they are smiling.]] / Cat: I used to love to sleep / Cat: That was / Cat: Before I figured out / Cat: You wake up / Cat: Every time / [[It is now cloudy and they look sad.]]
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Minus One [[Cat and Girl are taking a walk. The sun is shining and they are smiling.]] / Cat: I used to love to sleep / Cat: That was / Cat: Before I figured out / Cat: You wake up / Cat: Every time / [[It is now cloudy and they look sad.]]
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Seven Layer Dips Girl: Are we bundles of opinions / Girl: or sacks of chemicals? / Girl: Collections of ticket stubs or piles of dirty laundry? / Girl: The flickering memories of other people / Girl: or fear on a treadmill / Girl: or a delusion wrapped inside an enigma? / [[Cat smiles.]] / Cat: Let's get burritos.
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Reality Comes Calling [[Cat, alone, in kitchen. He is standing next to a table on which is a beaker emitting smoke, and a small stack. Holds a square in tweezers]] / [[Girl joins him]] / Girl: What is that? / Cat: Well / [[ Cat observes tweezered square, Girl holds stack ]] / Cat: We know it's not cheese / Girl: "Kraft Singles" / Cat: But it'll patch a tire / Girl: It started out as FAKE cheese. / [[Cat sniffs ]] / {{ SNIFF SNIFF }} / Girl: But if you mimic something long enough / Cat: You become it. / Girl: You become your OWN / Girl: real / Girl: unique / Girl: thing. / [[ Cat eats cheese. Girl observes clouds of smoke traveling towards refrigerator.]] / Girl: I thought I was a novelist but I'm a blogger.
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Habits [[ Cat and Girl walking outside. Cactus on horizon. Cat & Girl facing right ]] / Cat: I can't sleep on airplanes. / Girl: I can't wake up without coffee. / Cat: I only shower at home. / [[ Cat & Girl facing left ]] / Girl: I always eat in front of my computer. / Girl: We're losing our flexibility! / [[ Cat & Girl facing right ]] / Cat: We're making our world smaller and more comfortable. / [[ Cat and Girl standing calf-deep in a circular ditch ]] / Girl: This is getting old.
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Moments Girl: We'd rather look at the world through a camera - / Girl: and let the world know what we just read - where we just ate - / Girl: never letting a clever thought pass us by in the night. / Girl: Why won't we fully engage in the world around us / Girl: and then let it go / Girl: to sink into the sickly sweet oblivion of memory / Cat: Did you hear about the Girl who went searching for the last unmediated experience? / Cat: NO!
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Bonding [[Cat sits in a booth at a diner.]] / Cat: Salt? Meet pepper. / Cat: Pepper is an ARCHITECT. / Girl: It'll never work. / Cat: You're talking to the guy who introduced FORM and FUNCTION. / Girl: Not everybody has to be together with somebody else. / Cat: Unstable electrons - covalent bonds. / Cat: BOOM! Couples are SAFE - NEUTRALIZED - / Cat: They're not going around poaching other peoples' electrons or throwing up in your bathtub or blacking out all the eyes in your photo albums with a sharpie. / [[Cat looks back. Salt is gone.]] / [[Cat holds pepper.]] / [[Salt returns at the side of a napkin dispenser.]]
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Virginia is for Luddites [[Cat, with a tin can telephone. Holds can end to ear while string stretches out.]] / [[ Girl then Boy join him]] / Girl: Last person in the world without a cell phone / Girl: Meet the last person in the world who isn't a DJ / Boy: My phone has camera. / [[ Cat pokes hole in end of can ]] / {{ POKE }} / [[ Cat points hole end at Boy & Girl face level ]]
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Food Fight Girl: There are generational issues - / Cat: Sure / Girl: Different responses to the globalization of food culture - / Cat: Sure / Girl: A growing number of people in the developing world turning to vegetarianism - while a growing number of people in the developing world can afford meat for the first time. / Cat: Not just generational but differences of education - of socialization - / Girl: We're told to eat foods made of plants and animals instead of chemicals - / Cat: My professors had such bad handwriting - / Girl: Then we're told these plants and animals are shadows of the real plants and animals that exist outside mass industrialization - / Cat: I spent a decade exoticizing the otter. / Girl: And with every new piece of information the price goes UP. / Cat: Food is the new secular religion. / Girl: The conspicuous consumption of morality in the public of the marketplace. / Girl: And what do you call the Cheetos and Hot Pockets eaten in secret? / Cat: Indulgences.
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A Cat Walks Into a Bar [[ Girl stands at bus stop examining her watch and looking around ]] / / [[ Cat arrives with bird on shoulder, head bandaged, splotch on shirt ]] / / Cat: There were circumstances. / Girl: The whole world is circumstances!
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The Lifestyle Artist Girl: Before medicine was for crazy people / Girl: ART was. / Grrrl: It's easy to forget / Girl: but then a CALLING became a CAREER. / Grrrl: most of those people starving in garrets weren't very good. / Girl: SELF-EXPRESSION became SELF-INVENTION / Grrrl: We only remember the people written into history - whose works made a convenient pit stop along whatever linear progression was being proposed / Girl: And COMMUNICATION became ADVERTISING / Grrrl: so only people TOO DAMAGED to recognize AMBITION can create AUTHENTICALLY MEANINGFUL WORK? / Grrrl: MAN / Grrrl: No wonder everyone switched to knitting.
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The Incredible Journey [[Cat and Girl play ping-pong.]] / <> / <> / [[The ball flies our of the panel.]] / [[Grrrl watches the ping-pong ball fly by.]] / [[The Beatnik Vampire watches the ping-pong ball fly by.]] / [[Boy watches the ping-pong ball fly by.]] / Boy: I wish -
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Full [[Girl takes a pie out of the oven.]] / Girl: I'm baking for book club tonight - / Girl: and I'm taking notes for baking club. / [[Cat sits at a table, knife and fork in hand.]] / Girl: Monday is close harmony practice - Wednesdays are dragon boat racing - / Girl: and every other Friday is the Barbara Stanwyck movie scene reenactment society - yes SIR - / Girl: I've got my fingers in all kinds of pies. / [[Cat looks down at his slice of pie.]] / Cat: This pie is ALL fingers.
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Stalker Girl: Shadows around every corner-- / Girl: artifacts of our personal history. / Girl: Why do they FOLLOW us? / Cat: The past isn't past / Girl: What have we DONE? / Cat: It's not even pasta. / Girl: How FAR and how FAST do we have to move to ESCAPE them? / [[Cat fears; Girl is despondent.]] / Girl: I don't have anything you want!
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Divining Rod [[Girl is waving a long stick.]] / Cat: Taking your stick for a walk? / Cat: I hate it when they go in the house. / Girl: I'm looking for JERKS. / [[Girl wiggles the stick at Cat.]] / [[The stick points itself at Girl.]] / Girl: And water. / [[It begins to rain.]]
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Ahabituation [[Cat and Girl are on a sailing ship.]] / Cat: YARRRRR / Cat: We are hunting that devil / Girl: that elusive devil / Cat: SLEEP. / Girl: Not a myth / Cat: but a REAL BEAST. / Girl: I've tangled with him before. / Cat: It was during that battle that you lost-- / Girl: I lost my place in a book. / Cat: And it was NEVER found! / Cat: A small price to pay-- / Girl: --for a face to face meeting. / Cat: SLEEP! / Girl: I will find you again! / <> / Cat: Another cup of coffee? / Girl: PLEASE.
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Late or Far Away From the Party Girl: Globalism versus regionalism / Girl: is NOT the SAME struggle as modernity versus pre-modernity. / Cat: Is it really still modernity? / Girl: But TIME and SPACE / Cat: It FEELS later. / Girl: are just different ways of expressing NEAR and FAR. / Cat: Is it post-modernity yet? / <> / Girl: And they're not as different as we think. / Cat: My watch broke at Cubism.
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Everybody Must Converge Girl: Are time and space the same thing? / Girl: Is one ever possible without the other? / [[Girl thinks.]] / Cat: I'm HERE - / [[Cat walks away form Girl.]] / Cat: Now I'm HERE. / Girl: How long did that take you?
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Losing Battles [[Cat and Girl are in a boat.]] / Girl: Fighting globalization can seem a lot like fighting modernity. / Girl: The whole ocean of it - one bucket at a time. / Cat: I've got a flare gun! / Girl: And while globalization versus regionalization is not the SAME / Girl: as modernity versus pre-modernity / Girl: post-colonialism versus pre-colonialism versus - colonialism - materialism versus spirituality - / Girl: IS fighting for cultural preservation good? Or is it - INEVITABLY - a fight against progress? / Girl: Is PROGRESS inevitably good? / Girl: We're lost. / [[Cat fires his gun. The flag that emerges reads "Bang."]]
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The Gates of Hell [[Girl thinks]] / [[Cat arrives]] / Cat: You're a little thinker! / Girl: I'm not a thinker / Girl: I'm just thinking. / Girl: When did WHAT YOU DO become WHO YOU ARE? / Girl: If you jog you're a jogger / Girl: If you smoke you're a smoker / Girl: If you teach you're a teacher / Girl: Or is it the inevitable result of society moving away from defining people by accidents of birth like family religion and ethnicity? / [[Beat]] / Cat: What are you thinking about? / Girl: Lunch.
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A Million Little Reasons Girl: NO! / Girl: Don't read my diary! / Cat: I bet you can't wait for the printing press to be invented. / Girl: Books keep secrets / Cat: SECRETS are and ANACHRONISM / Cat: The CONCEIT of a culture setting a MORAL example for ALL the world / Cat: A conceit that collapsed with EMPIRE / Cat: Queen VICTORIA. / Cat: And the SHAMES that clung to morality's underbelly became good ways to get on television. / Cat: While YOU'RE hiding secrets other people are MAKING THEM UP just to have something to reveal! / <> / Cat: These are all grocery lists. / Girl: I like fist sticks.
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The Heist Cat: Fame and fortune are fleeting. / Girl: Where are they going? / Cat: Probably not to the bus stop. / Girl: What did they take? / Cat: The biggest prize of all. / Girl: A dinette set? / Cat: My SOUL? / Girl: Your soul was for the first runner-up. / Girl: The big prize was the dinette set. / Cat: But WHO can SAY what a thing is worth. / Girl: The free market supposedly. / Cat: What PRICE do we put on a SOUL? / Girl: $7.25 an hour.
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Name Game Grrrl: White - Middle-class - Cisgendered - / Grrrl: GUARDIANS of privilege - / Girl: Cisgendered. / Grrrl: When your biological sex matches your gender identity. / Girl: Great - something else to feel bad about. / Grrrl: That's not the / Girl: No - No - I'm adding it to the list. / Grrrl: A lot of people aren't covered by words like "male" and "female." / Girl: WHY do we need WORDS for everything? / Grrrl: How would we COMMUNICATE without words? / [[Girl thinks.]] / [[Girl hums.]] / [[Girl and Grrrl hum.]]
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Cat and Girl are in the Newspaper Cat and Girl / Cat: everyone likes handmade stuff now. / Girl: I know I do! / Cat: I thought handmade stuff was for indigenous peoples and grandmas / Girl: I just bought a handmade sweater / Cat: where did you get it? / Girl: the internet! / / Cat and Girl / Girl: I'm wtiting my christmas list early this year. / Girl: Santa reminded me. / Cat: did he write you a letter? / Girl: no- I SAW him! / Cat: where? / Girl: Chatroullete! / / Cat and Girl / Girl: I just feel AWFUL. / Cat: That's too bad- / Cat: you're going to spend the rest of your life in an iron lung / Girl: no, I wont! / Cat: Why? / Girl: the Polio vaccine!
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The Insider [[Cat is in the kitchen cutting onions.]] / <> / [[He throws them in a pan.]] / <> / Cat: Who wants an omelette? / Girl: Why is happiness so important? / Cat: Hmmm / Cat: It looks good in photographs. / Girl: Why are we taught to value it above all other things? / Cat: I want to spend eternity in a Newports ad. / Girl: Because our society doesn't VALUE suffering except as something to emerge from. / [[Cat and Girl look at the egg Cat is holding.]] / [[Cat throws the egg away.]] / Cat: Who wants toast?
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Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction [[Cat sits at the kitchen table chewing on a donut.]] / <> / [[Girl is wearing a lab coat and goggles and carrying a shovel.]] / Cat: How's it going in there? / Girl: Good! I'm almost done with the first chapter. / <> / [[Cat nervously approaches a door with steam emitting from behind it.]] / Sign: QUIET Novel in Progress / <> / <> / [Girl is flipping a switch between 1st person and 3rd person on a giant, coal-fueled machine.]] / <> / [[Cat closes the door behind him.]] / [[Outside the house punctuation is leaking into the groundwater.]]
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Dreaming in Venn [[A Venn diagram. Included sits within Excluded.]] / [[Included and Excluded have little legs and feet.]] / [[Excluded leans away from Included.]] / <> / [[Excluded and Included separate.]] / [[They hit the ground.]] / [[Excluded looks at Included.]] / [[Excluded attacks Included with an eraser.]] / [[Excluded writes on Included with a marker.]] / [[Excluded, relabeled "Superior," jumps up on to Included, relabeled "Inferior."]] / [[Superior lands.]] / [[Boy sits alone at a cafeteria table, a smile on his face.]] / [[At other tables, kids are eating and talking to each other.]] / Boy: <>
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Angry Science <> / [[Boy attaches a head to the robot]] / Cat: Hello Sir. / Boy: This is Revenge-Bot. / Cat: I'm reading the world's shortest book. / Cat: "Revenge fantasies of emotionally healthy people." / Boy: He's going to make everything OK! / Cat: Or was it "Great vegan recipes?" / < / <> / [[Revenge-Bot hugs Boy.]]
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Ghost Stories Grrrl: You can't / Grrrl: You cannot trust the media. / Newspaper box: You can trust me / Billboard: You can trust ME / Televisions: You can trust me Grrrl / [[Grrrl runs into her home and shuts the door.]] / Radio: You know you can trust me. / <> / <> / [[Grrrl turns the light on. The radio emits noise.]] / Grrrl: But - / Grrrl: aren't newspapers dead? / <> / [[Lightning tears across the sky. A newspaper covers the window in front of Grrrl.]]
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