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He says, "If he had smiled, why would he have smiled?

"To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to

enter?

"Whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series.

"Even if the first term of succeeding ones each imagining himself to be

first...

"last, only and alone.

"Whereas he is neither first, nor last, nor only, nor alone...

in a series originating in and repeated to infinity. "

Hey, wait up.

- Hey, how's it going? - Hi. Okay. Where have you been?

- Oh, nowhere. - We've gotta get a move on.

- I got you something. - What?

- Great. NutraSweet, my favorite. - Come on, I got it for half price.

- Budding capitalist youth. - Say, y'all. Y'all got some change.

- Yeah. - Nah.

- There you go. - Thank you.

- You want a soda? - Yeah, I appreciate it.

You know, there's something very wrong with that.

What, that I gave the guy your Coke? The quarter?

Both of them, both of them. It's bad for both of you.

Him because it's not really gonna help him.

And you because that relationship is naturally going to involve...

that condescending element, maybe even contempt.

Granted giving the man a quarter isn't gonna change his life around.

I do realize that. There are better ways to help.

- I've been looking into these groups. - That's what I'm talking about.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. See, we're conditioned to assume...

that suffering is bad.

It's not. See, when you pity someone...

all you're able to see is this base creature in them.

You can't see any true potential.

I think it's their potential I do see.

But it's like all these other futile causes that you fall into.

They all stem from a certain weakness.

You know, psychologically, helping everyone else out is easier.

It's an escape from working on yourself, from perfecting yourself.

Yeah, Mr. Perfect here.

You know, that's what I hate. When you start talking like this.

It's like you're just pulling these things from the sh*t you read.

You haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us...

and totally unoriginal.

Great. Personal attacks now, is that it? I thought we were beyond that.

It's like you just pasted together these bits and pieces...

from your authoritative sources.

I don't know. I'm beginning to suspect maybe there's nothing really in

there.

Suspect, you're beginning to suspect.

Oh, that's rich. That's really rich.

So what? At least what is there is based on good sources.

At least I'm not chained to this slave morality that seems to rule your

life.

Thank you very much. You know, everyone else just thinks you're an a**hole.

- Great. - The more I get to know you...

I just feel sorry for you.

- I'm glad they think I'm an a**hole. - I bet you are.

I don't think anyone who's ever done anything...

hasn't been considered an a**hole by the general populace.

- I mean, look at Freud. - Yeah, let's look at Freud. Man.

- I mean, Bob Dylan. - Let's forget it. We're late.

- We've already missed it. - Oh, no. Come on. Come on.

We can make it. There's gonna be five minutes of trailers. It'll be no

problem.

We missed the beginning. Hang it up. I'm gonna go look at some books.

I just need to get away for a little bit. I need some quiet.

How about the next show, two hours from now.

I'll meet you there. You've been wanting to see it.

- Okay. Okay. - Okay?

I'll meet you there. See you.

Oh, I see you're reading Rush toJudgment.

- Oh, yeah. I guess I am. - Oh, that's an excellent book.

- Yeah? - Yeah. Hey.

We had a class a couple of years ago, remember?

No, what class?

It was an anthropology class in ethnographic film.

Oh, yeah, yeah. The dancing birth scenes. Those death rituals.

- Yeah, yeah. - I remember that.

- What have you been up to? - Not too much.

I graduated a couple of years back. Just pretty much hanging out.

- Yourself? - Oh, yeah, you know me.

I've been, uh, keeping up with my J.F.K. Assassination theories,

you know.

- Oh, really? - Yeah.

You know, you're reading one of the great books on the subject.

It's great. Rush toJudgment has all the testimony, you know...

of all the witnesses who were never called before the Warren Commission.

You know, like Mrs. Aquilla Clemmons...

who was that maid who lived on Patton Street who saw the Tippet shooting.

It wasn't Oswald that did it. Of course you know it was Jack Ruby.

- Oh, really? I didn't realize that. - Oh, yes.

This is also the book that's got the testimony of Sam Holland, you know...

the Prince of the Puff of Smoke.

Yeah, he was up there on the overpass over Dealey Plaza...

and he was able to just see everything.

I really don't know too much about this. I was kind of just flipping

through.

Oh, well, it's really good. If you like that...

you should really read one of the other books around here. It might be here.

Best Evidence. That's the one with all the head-snap stuff in it.

- Oh, yeah? - Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Of course, if you like that, you should really read Six Seconds in

Dallas...

'cause, you know, Six Seconds is the one that's got all the trajectories...

and the triangulation of the bullets and stuff.

And it's great. It's just got this like second by second account...

of just the entire tragic sequence, you know.

- That's fascinating. Yeah. - Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

But then, of course, then there's my real favorite one right here...

which you really should snap up if you can.

Forgive my Grief. It is great.

'Cause, you know, this also has all this testimony in it.

Like, gosh, you know, they talked to Mrs. Erlene Roberts, you know...

who was Oswald's landlady and stuff.

Oh, yeah. And she swears that she saw this, uh, Dallas patrol car...

pull up in front of Oswald's house...

- and give this little "Tit-Tit. " - "Tit-Tit"?

Yeah, yeah. It was the tip-off for Oswald, you know?

Yeah, he was supposed to go up the street up Beckly Avenue -

he was in Oak Cliff- to go to the Steak and Egg Kitchen...

where he was supposed to meet with J.D. Tippet...

and have their "breakfast of infamy. "

Yeah, yeah. You know, the waitresses went on record in the Warren Report...

- saying that Oswald didn't like his eggs and used bad language. -

You're kidding.

- My goodness. - This is good.

But, of course, then there's my book, you know.

- You've written one of these books? - Well, I've been working on mine.

Yeah. It's gonna be good though.

It's gonna be this totally new approach.

I was just talking with my publisher at this small press.

And, I mean, he was telling me that it's gonna be a real winner.

I was thinking of calling it something like Profiles in Cowardice or something.

But he said he didn't think it was too good an idea, you know.

And he really thought that maybe I should, uh...

do something like call it Conspiracy a-Go-Go.

That's catchy. Yeah, I like that.

I've just expanded and expanded upon it, you know. And I went on -

There's this new section about how J.F.K. And Jackie were speed freaks.

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