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Vocal Q / 22 August 1998

12: I have a question for you.

13: Don’t preface.

12:

13: Just go ahead and say what you want to say.

12: I wonder what it would feel like to have tiny insects living and spawning in my bloodstream.

13: Is that your question?

12: Did it sound like a question?

13: No.

12: OK then.

13: I need to run—

12: It would be neat if everything sounded like vinyl. If everything had that, you know, crackle and pop.

13: Is that—

12: A hint is that my voice will get a little bit higher at the end.

13: There’s no need—

12: There’ll be a little lilt, a tiny upswing in the tone of my voice.

13:

12: We have all these vocal cues so you know exactly when I’m fucking asking you a goddamn question, OK?

13: [exhaling]

12: Like just then.

13: You’re a cute one.

12: Do you know anyone, like anyone, who’s happy?

13:

12: Anyone who’s where they want to be? Anyone who’s not boring and depressed?

13: That’s more than one question.

12: I gotta go.

13: Me too.




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