1:26:01
And to start with it was
like a novelty ventriloquist act.
1:26:04
After a while,
the ass started talking on its own.
1:26:07
He would go in
without anything prepared...
1:26:09
and his ass would ad-lib
and toss the gags back at him every time.
1:26:15
Then it developed sort of teethlike...
1:26:16
little raspy incurving hooks
and started eating.
1:26:21
He thought this was cute at first
and built an act around it...
1:26:23
but the asshole would eat its way through
his pants and start talking on the street...
1:26:27
shouting out it wanted equal rights.
1:26:29
It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags.
Nobody loved it.
1:26:34
And it wanted to be kissed,
same as any other mouth.
1:26:37
Finally, it talked all the time,
day and night.
1:26:39
You could hear him for blocks,
screaming at it to shut up...
1:26:44
beating at it with his fists...
1:26:46
and sticking candles up it, but...
1:26:49
nothing did any good,
and the asshole said to him...
1:26:51
"It is you who will shut up
in the end, not me...
1:26:54
"because we don't need you
around here anymore.
1:26:57
I can talk and eat and shit."
1:27:01
After that, he began waking up
in the morning with transparentjelly...
1:27:05
like a tadpole's tail
all over his mouth.
1:27:09
He would tear it off his mouth
and the pieces would stick to his hands...
1:27:13
like burning gasoline jelly
and grow there.
1:27:17
So, finally, his mouth sealed over...
1:27:21
and the whole head...
1:27:23
would have amputated spontaneously
except for the eyes, you dig?
1:27:26
That's the one thing
that the asshole couldn't do was see.
1:27:29
It needed the eyes.
1:27:31
Nerve connections were blocked...
1:27:33
and infiltrated and atrophied.
1:27:36
So, the brain couldn't
give orders anymore.
1:27:39
It was trapped inside the skull...
1:27:42
sealed off.
1:27:46
For a while, you could see...
1:27:48
the silent, helpless suffering
of the brain behind the eyes.
1:27:55
And then finally
the brain must have died...
1:27:57
because the eyes went out...