The Singing Detective
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1:22:01
Well, it cuts
most of the jobs

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a writer would get
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if you have to think
about the value

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of the words.
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Hollywood re-writes...
National Enquirer...

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Dan Rather's teleprompter.
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Let's see how you're doing.
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Can you read it?
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''Memory...
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upward strokes
and downward slopes...''

1:22:19
Mm-hmm.
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And what's this?
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''...Comma curls
making me hold...''

1:22:25
Yeah, l can read it.
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-Oh.
-Making you hold what?

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My breath.
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Words make me hold my breath.
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Do they now?
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Who knows what
they're going to say?

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But...
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Who knows where they've been?
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We're getting
a little heavy here, aren't we?

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Well, what made you say that,
Brenda?

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What do you mean?
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lf we wrote that down.
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Quote, getting a little
heavy, comma,

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aren't we, question mark,
unquote.

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lf l did...
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No, it doesn't matter.
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Ah, well, um...
keep at it!

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Quote, ah, well, dash,
keep at it, exclamation mark.

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She smiled, comma,
turned away, dot-dot... dot.

1:23:38
Ooh, going off the page.
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Stop... finished, period.
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He's dead,
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period.
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Out of it, period.
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That's it.
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All done.
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Great.

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