Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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into continuous loops that played over
the seven hanging monitors.

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Bob added various audio clips from film,
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television and commercial video
gathered over the years.

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"...this long disease, my life,
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well, it's coming to an end."
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"You make me puke."
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"I'm going to be sick."
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"That's true actually.
She does throw up a lot."

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"What's the matter with you?
Aren't you feeling well? "

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"No, I feel fine.
Well, I mean, for me I feel fine."

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"That's not what
you'd really call feeling fine."

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"There's not
a single thing wrong with me."

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"I'll tell you something.
I'm well. Absolutely well.

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I'm young and strong
and nothing can touch me."

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He always felt that if he had a choice
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between a mistress and an art career
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he would have given up the art career
for the mistress

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if she would've wanted that.
But he said he felt lucky

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that he found someone
who was interested in his art career.

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But he said if I wasn't,
if I didn't want him to,

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he would've been glad
to spend the whole life

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in my dungeon, underneath my house,
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in the basement with the dead cats.
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It would have been shaved head,
shaved body,

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living underneath the cellar,
coming out at night

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and cleaning everything.
He would've been thrilled.

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"It was her house
I fell in love with first,

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from the dungeon-like darkness
of its basement to the grungy bathroom,

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the kitchen,
with its mile-high dishes,

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and to top it off,
two spoiled brats for me to wait on,

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chauffeur and pick up after.
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The perfect wicked stepchildren
in my Cinderella fantasy come true.

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Poor Cinderella,
how I pitied and envied her

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and wished that I could be her.
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Before the ball,
and before the fairy godmother

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who ruined everything
with her hocus-pocus

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and 'happily ever after.'
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This is what makes me happy :
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Fantastik, Snuggle, Cheer, Joy, Pledge,
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and all the other
janitorial aphrodisiacs--

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keep up-- that not only clean and shine,
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but also declare my eternal servitude

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