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JASON: Now, now? Or before?
KATE: Just now!
JASON: Well now, now I'm saying now, and ... uh ... now, I'm saying now
and ... uh ... now I'm saying -
KATE: Stop it, stop it, stop it!
JASON: What am I doing? (Innocently)
KATE: You sound like a broken parrot.
JASON: Don't you mean record?
KATE: No! I'm sure I meant parrot.
JASON: But how can you sound like a broken parrot?
KATE: I don't know, ask yourself, you were the one who sounded like one.
(Silence)
KATE: So, are we gonna take it?
JASON: Take what?!
KATE: This! This all of this! (She motions broadly to the entire room)
JASON: All of what? Be specific.
KATE: I am being specific.
JASON: No you're not, you're just motioning around.
KATE: Exactly!
JASON: Exactly, what?
KATE: Huh?
JASON: Let's start over.
KATE: I thought we did
JASON: Did we?
KATE: I thought so. Didn't you say my lines and I yours just now?
JASON: Did we really?
KATE: I thought we did.
JASON: I don't remember. Can we bring on the prompter?
KATE: I guess we can.
JASON: Then let's!
KATE: Do you think she'll be okay with it?
JASON: Who?
KATE: The author?
(Silence)
JASON: I knew the author once. I remember how she created me, just like the
way Adam was created by the priests and Jews. I was standing in this
line, because of course we're always waiting in lines. This darkness
surrounds all of us in this line. And I'm standing there ... blank ...
Nothing in me, on me ... no me. That's hard to fathom, no me, but I
guess that's how it was. Anyway, there I am standing ... well I suppose
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