Six Degrees Of Separation Page #19

But we hadn't counted on... traffic.

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i(Flan) Traffic./i

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i(Ouisa) Traffic./i

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iWe'd promised Paul/i

iwe would take him to the police./i

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i(Flan) I called our new best friend,/i

ithe detective./i

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Paul! Officer, please! Let us go with him!

We promised we would go with him!

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- Paul? Paul?

- No, Ouisa.

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Officer, please. Paul!

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The Kandinsky is painted on both sides!

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- There's nothing more you could do.

- i(Flan)/i I didn't think so, no.

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The next day, Ouisa went to the precinct.

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Detective Marino, please.

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- He's transferred.

- Since yesterday?

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He's transferred.

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This is about an arrest that was made

yesterday at the Waverly movie theatre.

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Hold on.

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This precinct didn't go

to the Waverly theatre.

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- I didn't imagine it.

- I'm not sayin' you did.

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- Perhaps you can tell me which precinct...

- Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

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The name?

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Um...

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Poitier. Or Kittredge.

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Uh...

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- Are you family?

- Not exactly.

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The detective told me that I could go with

the young man when he was arraigned,

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so I could tell them that he was... special...

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We have no record of it. Some other

precinct must have made the arrest.

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It sounds like your special friend

was wanted for somethin' else.

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Like what?

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Lady, how can I help you?

You don't even know your friend's name.

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Six degrees.

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We weren't family.

We didn't know Paul's name.

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iI went to the district attorney's office./i

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iWe weren't family./i

iWe didn't know Paul's name./i

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iI called the criminal courts./i

iI wasn't family. I didn't know Paul's name./i

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I read today that a young man

committed suicide in Rikers Island prison,

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and tied a shirt around his neck

and hanged himself.

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Was it the pink shirt?

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A burst of colour. Pink shirt.

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Was it Paul? We never did

find out who he was.

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I'm sure it wasn't him.

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- Yes, I agree.

- Isn't it amazing?

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We haven't seen the last of him,

believe me. He'll be back. He'll find a way.

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The imagination... Oh!

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- Why does it mean so much to you?

- He wanted to be us.

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Everything we are in the world.

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This paltry thing, our life, he wanted it.

He stabbed himself to get into our lives.

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He envied us.

We're not enough to be envied.

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Like the papers said, we do have hearts.

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Having a heart is not the point.

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We were hardly taken in.

We believed him for a few hours.

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He did more for us in a few hours

than our children ever did.

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And he wanted to be your child.

Don't let that go.

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He sat out in that park and said

"That man is my father."

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He's in trouble, and we don't

know how to help him.

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Help him? My God! We could

have been killed. Throats slashed.

1590

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You were attracted to him.

1591

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Oh, please. Cut me out

of that pathology right now.

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Attracted by his youth, his talent,

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and the embarrassing prospect

of being in the movie of iCats./i

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Well... that, yes. Yes.

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Did you put that in your iTimes/i piece?

1596

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And we turn him into an anecdote

to dine out on, like we're doing right now!

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But it was an experience.

I will not turn him into an anecdote.

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How do we keep what happens to us?

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How do we fit it into life

without turning it into an anecdote?

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With no teeth, and a punch line

you'll mouth over and over for years.

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"Oh, that reminds me of that impostor."

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"Oh, tell the one about that boy."

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And we become these human jukeboxes,

spilling out these anecdotes.

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But it was an experience.

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How do we keep the experience?

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That's why I love paintings.

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Czanne, the problems he brought up then

are the problems painters still deal with.

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Colour. Structure.

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Those are problems.

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There is colour in my life,

but I'm not aware of any structure.

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What are you saying, darling?

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Czanne would leave

blank spaces in his canvases

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if he couldn't account

for the brush stroke...

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couldn't... give a reason for the colour.

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Then I am a collage

of unaccounted-for brush strokes.

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I... am all...

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random.

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- Excuse me.

- Ouisa!

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- Do sit down!

- Excuse me, please.

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