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BACK, WE ADD A CHASE SCENE WHERE HE ESCAPES
FROM PRISON, RAPES AND MURDERS A
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL, AND IS FINALLY DRIVEN TO COMMIT SUICIDE OUT OF GUILT. THE PRODUCER AGREED
TO IT ONLY ON THE CONDITION THAT JOHN WAYNE PLAY THE TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL.)
I knew you'd see it
my way. I knew careful editing would make the meaning clear. It was wrong of you to want 2075. It
was wrong of you to assume that our art needed you, the spectator, in order to be. It was wrong.
The film can run, the tape can play without you. YOU CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT IT. We insure your
existence. We married you when none would have you. We had you. We had you. We had
you.
When we start a
film, we put out the lights.
(From the Webster's
dictionary, printed 2074, SUICIDE —1: an unprogrammed act, usually committed without benefit of
monitoring devices. Usually a fatal act, a fatal taking of one's life, without being ordered to
do so, or recording the act for rebroadcast. 2: A sin of nontransmission at a moment of the
highest entertainment value.)
This is an official
notification to all those suicide-prone people who insist on depriving their peers from
witnessing their death. In order to insure that the people are not deprived of the entertainment
due them, we have devised a method of taking still pictures of your body and turning it into a
film for broadcast purposes. We take the still picture of your dead body, assemble the dead
pictures on a traveling matte, and, through recent innovations of the multiplane camera, bring
it to life as a film by artificial insemination. This is the meaning and aim for our films. This
is an official notification to suicide-prone monitor tamperers. The people must not be denied
their entertainment. Please confine your deaths to monitored periods. The people must not be
denied entertainment. Civilization must not aspire for 2075. It is not on the program. Read this book. It is a suicide note. The
people must not be denied their entertainment.
(Please watch your
monitor. I am committing suicide. The people must not be denied their entertainment. Stay tuned.
The people must not be—)
You are now
watching a test pattern. The pleasing tone is designed for your listening enjoyment. Our test
pattern is designed to be symmetrically pleasing. Are you happy?
The truth about the
evils of happiness is on Channel Thirteen. Please change your dial for this channel. Repeat.
Please change your dial for the truth about the evils of happiness.
Time Deer
The old man watched
the boy. The boy watched the deer. The deer was watched by all and the Great Being
above.
The old man
remembered when he was a young boy and his father showed him a motorcycle thing on a parking
lot.
The young boy
remembered his second Me with some regret, not looking forward to the coming of his first
wife.
Tuesday morning the
Monday morning traffic jam was three days old. The old man sat on the hood of a stalled car and
watched the boy. The boy watched the deer. The deer was watched by all and the Great Being
above.
The young boy
resisted when his son, at the insistence of his bitch of a white wife, had tried to put him in a
rest home for the elderly. Now he watched a deer beside the highway, and was watched in
turn.
The old man was on
the way to somewhere. He was going someplace, someplace important; he forgot just where. But he
knew he was going.
The deer had
relatives waiting for her, grass waiting for her, season being patient on her account. As much as
she wanted to please the boy by letting him look at her, she had to go. She apologized with a
shake of her head.
The old man watched
the deer going. He knew she had someplace to go, someplace important. He did not know where she
was going, but she knew why.
The old man was
going to be late. He could have walked. He was only going across the road. He was going across
the road to get to the other side. He was going to be late for his own
FROM PRISON, RAPES AND MURDERS A
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL, AND IS FINALLY DRIVEN TO COMMIT SUICIDE OUT OF GUILT. THE PRODUCER AGREED
TO IT ONLY ON THE CONDITION THAT JOHN WAYNE PLAY THE TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL.)
I knew you'd see it
my way. I knew careful editing would make the meaning clear. It was wrong of you to want 2075. It
was wrong of you to assume that our art needed you, the spectator, in order to be. It was wrong.
The film can run, the tape can play without you. YOU CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT IT. We insure your
existence. We married you when none would have you. We had you. We had you. We had
you.
When we start a
film, we put out the lights.
(From the Webster's
dictionary, printed 2074, SUICIDE —1: an unprogrammed act, usually committed without benefit of
monitoring devices. Usually a fatal act, a fatal taking of one's life, without being ordered to
do so, or recording the act for rebroadcast. 2: A sin of nontransmission at a moment of the
highest entertainment value.)
This is an official
notification to all those suicide-prone people who insist on depriving their peers from
witnessing their death. In order to insure that the people are not deprived of the entertainment
due them, we have devised a method of taking still pictures of your body and turning it into a
film for broadcast purposes. We take the still picture of your dead body, assemble the dead
pictures on a traveling matte, and, through recent innovations of the multiplane camera, bring
it to life as a film by artificial insemination. This is the meaning and aim for our films. This
is an official notification to suicide-prone monitor tamperers. The people must not be denied
their entertainment. Please confine your deaths to monitored periods. The people must not be
denied entertainment. Civilization must not aspire for 2075. It is not on the program. Read this book. It is a suicide note. The
people must not be denied their entertainment.
(Please watch your
monitor. I am committing suicide. The people must not be denied their entertainment. Stay tuned.
The people must not be—)
You are now
watching a test pattern. The pleasing tone is designed for your listening enjoyment. Our test
pattern is designed to be symmetrically pleasing. Are you happy?
The truth about the
evils of happiness is on Channel Thirteen. Please change your dial for this channel. Repeat.
Please change your dial for the truth about the evils of happiness.
Time Deer
The old man watched
the boy. The boy watched the deer. The deer was watched by all and the Great Being
above.
The old man
remembered when he was a young boy and his father showed him a motorcycle thing on a parking
lot.
The young boy
remembered his second Me with some regret, not looking forward to the coming of his first
wife.
Tuesday morning the
Monday morning traffic jam was three days old. The old man sat on the hood of a stalled car and
watched the boy. The boy watched the deer. The deer was watched by all and the Great Being
above.
The young boy
resisted when his son, at the insistence of his bitch of a white wife, had tried to put him in a
rest home for the elderly. Now he watched a deer beside the highway, and was watched in
turn.
The old man was on
the way to somewhere. He was going someplace, someplace important; he forgot just where. But he
knew he was going.
The deer had
relatives waiting for her, grass waiting for her, season being patient on her account. As much as
she wanted to please the boy by letting him look at her, she had to go. She apologized with a
shake of her head.
The old man watched
the deer going. He knew she had someplace to go, someplace important. He did not know where she
was going, but she knew why.
The old man was
going to be late. He could have walked. He was only going across the road. He was going across
the road to get to the other side. He was going to be late for his own
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