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(strained groaning)
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(drums stop)
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(house cables gently moaning)
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QUOYLE:
This is from the "News
of Your Neighbors" column.
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"The pole on the corner of Main
and West Streets
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"has a sign on it that says
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"it's illegal to place anything
on that pole.
:29:37
"We see the postman
has landed in the clink
:29:40
"for throwing the mail in
Killick-Claw Harbor.
:29:43
"He said he had too much
to deliver
:29:45
"and the folks could just take
a dip and help themselves.
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Guess it helps
if you can swim."
:29:50
This is professional stuff.
:29:51
How am I supposed to write this?
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BUNNY:
You can't.
:29:53
You'll get it wrong.
:29:55
Here now, miss! Don't you talk
to your father like that!
:29:57
Course he can do it.
:29:58
Petal says
Dad never gets anything right.
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Yeah, well, it'll work out.
:30:06
(banging)
:30:09
(staticky radio
transmission)
:30:17
Hello.
:30:18
You must be Quoyle.
:30:20
B. Beaufield Nutbeem.
:30:22
I head up the Foreign
News Department.
:30:25
Steals every story off
that goddamn shortwave.
:30:28
Which Tert takes the
liberty of rewriting
:30:30
in his own
mystical tongue.
:30:32
Only to save you from charges
of plagiarism, Nutbeem.
:30:35
NUTBEEM:
Ah, Mr. Billy Pretty
:30:37
an old fish dog
and local landmark.
:30:40
Edits the
Home News Page--
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poems, baby photos,
household tips.
:30:42
There's your desk, Quoyle.
:30:52
Is there, um, a computer?
:30:55
Well, do you see one?
:30:56
No, I just...
I see everyone else...