{"id":97,"date":"2024-02-28T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T18:02:41","slug":"plays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/index.php\/bard-shoes\/plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>From the novel, <em>If This Is an Animal<\/em><\/strong> (2018)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Que Reste-t-il de nos amours &#8211;<\/em> What Is Left of Our Loves<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-728\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-728\" src=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Que-Reste-t-il-de-nos-amours.jpg\" alt=\"Que Reste-t-il de nos amours\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Que-Reste-t-il-de-nos-amours.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Que-Reste-t-il-de-nos-amours-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Paul Cusick on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Charles Trenet\u2019s song,&nbsp;<em>Que Reste-t-il de nos amours<\/em>, is playing in the background.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charles Trenet - Que Reste-T-il De Nos Amours\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_uvgm2_hRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Charles Trenet &#8211; <em>Que Reste-t-il de nos amours<\/em><\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" id=\"0588\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">The Characters<\/mark><\/strong> <strong>(in alphabetical order)<\/strong><br><strong>Maria Aizawa (Maria): A Japanese porn star<br>Woody Allen (Woody): An American movie director-writer-actor<br>Charlie Chaplin (Chaplin): An Anglo-American movie director-writer-actor-musician<br>Emily Dickinson (Dickinson): An American poet<br>Christopher Hitchens (Hitchens): An Anglo-American writer-debater<br>Jacques Messier (Jacques): An Assassin<br>Yann Moix (Moix): A French writer<br>Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche): A German philosopher<br>Michel Onfray (Onfray): A French philosopher<br>Philip Roth (Roth): An American writer<br>Carli Wanks (Carli): An American porn star<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"97d1\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">The Scene<\/mark><br>The Western Wall. Dawn. Early 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"78cb\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark>&nbsp;(In his late 50s, wearing a white suit, white shirt and white suede shoes.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bdd3\"><strong>(Walking slowly towards the camera, stopping six feet from them.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7eda\"><strong>My name is Christopher Hitchens.&nbsp;However, here and now, I am God.&nbsp;Yes; the God.&nbsp;I am an atheist&nbsp;but I am also God.&nbsp;How is that possible?&nbsp;you may ask. Again,&nbsp;I am God.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9faf\"><strong>(The camera slowly zooms onto the backs of ten individuals, one by one, from right to left, standing in a row about two feet from each other and about two feet from the wall. They are all facing it motionless.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5f8b\"><strong>Let us watch what could and perhaps should occur with this mixed group, this tensome of individuals, men and women, real and fictitious, living and departed, like me. They cannot see me. They can all speak English fluently, but with a suitable accent, of course. They can also speak any other language, but are limited, unaware of it, to a certain number of words in each of those tongues.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"939e\"><strong>(They slowly start moving. The camera zooms on anyone that speaks.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bbdd\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark>&nbsp;(In his late 50s, wearing a black shirt, black pants and black suede shoes.)<br><em>C\u2019est quoi ce bordel ?<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: What is this mess?)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"682c\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark>&nbsp;(In his early 80s, wearing a black suit, white shirt and black leather shoes.)<br>Don\u2019t we all recognise the Western Wall?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7087\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark>&nbsp;(In his late 40s, wearing a dark brown suit, light grey shirt and grey running shoes.)<br>Yes. It seems we\u2019re in Jerusalem. But who you are blows my mind even more. (Smiling) You, Philip Roth, and Michel Onfray before you, and&nbsp;Woody&nbsp;Allen! (In his early 80s, wearing a light suit, beige shirt and white running shoes.) Charlie&nbsp;Chaplin! (In his mid 50s, dressed as the Tramp.) My God! (The camera zooms on Hitchens smiling with a glass of whisky in one hand.)&nbsp;Nietzsche! (In his early 40s, wearing a dark suit, white shirt and black leather shoes.) Astonishing! I\u2019m sorry but I don\u2019t seem to know the rest of you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"76c1\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark>&nbsp;(In his early 50s, wearing a blue shirt, white pants and blue running shoes.)<br>I know all of you, including these three ladies. Emily&nbsp;Dickinson! (In her early 40s, wearing a dark dress and black leather shoes.) You\u2019re one of my favourite poets. I love you, Ms. Dickinson.&nbsp;Maria&nbsp;Aizawa! (In her early 30s, wearing a white shirt, blue jeans and white running shoes.) I love you too (Smiling), but in another way.&nbsp;Carli&nbsp;Wanks! (In her early 30s, wearing a blue floral dress and white sandals.) I know that it\u2019s not your real name. I also love you like Maria Aizawa. (Has a wider smile) No! Maybe a bit more. As for me, I\u2019m sure that none of you know who I am. I\u2019m Jacques Messier, but it\u2019s not my real name.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7d1e\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>Great disguises, Dickinson, Nietzsche and Chaplin!&nbsp;Or are we seeing dead people?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c927\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>I seem to know that I had died but I am here now and do not know how.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4347\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>Me, as well. Impossible!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d00e\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>Me too, but I am happy to be alive once more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"271c\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>What the fuck?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"652c\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br><em>Watashi wa kowaidesu<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: I\u2019m scared).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9198\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><br>Don\u2019t be! I\u2019m sure that there\u2019s an explanation for this. I\u2019m also sure that it can\u2019t be a simple one. Do you want me to hold you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"789b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes, please!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f8ec\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Holds her in his arms.) I can\u2019t believe that I\u2019m holding Maria Aizawa. (The camera zooms on his smiling face. He closes his eyes.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a183\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Who is she exactly? And Carli Wanks? And you? I must be dreaming.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0ee6\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Maria and Carli are two of my favourite porn stars, and I\u2019m; it\u2019s complicated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"13e0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>This is getting better by the phrase and maybe by the word.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ec4d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><br>What is a porn star?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"35d2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Women and men who perform pornographic scenes that are filmed and shown for the pleasure of others. And a film, or a movie, is a long series of pictures taken consecutively that when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ac70\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>I can surmise that all the rest of us being here has to do with you. Who are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ce0a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>As I said;&nbsp;it\u2019s complicated. My real name is Joseph Shabbat, but for some reason I feel that I\u2019m here as Jacques Messier, my professional name. I can\u2019t tell you anything more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bacc\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>But it may be the key to all of this, whatever all of this is.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6c7c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I do like, no, love every one of you, so I may be indeed the key. But how and why? I can only say that I\u2019ve been hired, though I would have done it for free, as the assassin of several very ruthless individuals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"48ce\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>The plot thickens.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ab79\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>Knowing what you love about each one of us and or why you love each one of us may help us to understand at least part of this unusual situation. I, we, can probably guess what you love (Smiling) about Maria and Carli.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"14e7\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>It would have been too obvious even if they weren\u2019t porn stars. They are simply beautiful, and breathtaking (Smiling) when they are naked. Sorry&nbsp;<em>cher<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: dear) Yann Moix that Maria is not your Maria, the one to whom you dedicated all your masterpieces.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d0b6\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Yes.&nbsp;Thanks!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"87f2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>That\u2019s a good idea, Moix? Come on, Messier! Spell the beans! What am I saying? You\u2019re an assassin. Shabbat! Does it mean that you don\u2019t kill on the Sabbath? What day is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fb2f\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><br>I\u2019ve only killed as Messier and I\u2019ve once killed on the eve of Yom Kippur.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cede\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>We are doomed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6cdf\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Can\u2019t we just get out of here? Though I would love to speak to some of you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"28f9\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Given this implausible situation, I doubt that we can just decide to depart. I\u2019ve also noticed that this may not be the Western Wall, but a replica of some sort. Furthermore, three of us are Jews. Woody Allen, Joseph Shabbat and myself, which renders this situation even stranger.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"37d9\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>I would consider Moix a honorary Jew.&nbsp;More than that. He\u2019s more Jewish than anyone of us. (The camera quickly zooms on Moix smiling.) I also think that the Western Wall, whether real or not, and four Jews may point to something significant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8b86\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><br>(The camera slowly zooms on Hitchens, whispering audibly with a slight laugh.)&nbsp;I\u2019m also a Jew by my mother, but an uncircumcised one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6120\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>Did you hear that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8867\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br>(Frightened) Yes. (Jacques tries to hold her in his arms but she politely refuses.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7420\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiles and looks at Dickinson)<br>\u201cI heard a fly buzz when I died<br>The Stillness in the room<br>Was like the stillness in the air<br>Between the heaves of storm\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d33a\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>You weren\u2019t just saying that you loved me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c3fe\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>I liked your poetry when I studied it at the university but fell in love with you when I saw a movie about your life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3e95\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>They have made a movie about me?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fd74\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Several movies with great actresses who really played you so well now that I see you in front of me, and numerous books have been written about you.&nbsp;I\u2019m sure that the rest of us here also love your poetry. (Save Maria, they all nod their heads in agreement.)<br>Before we continue, please allow me to say a few words that I\u2019ve been feeling for most of my life. (Turning to Chaplin) You, dear Sir, dear Charlie Chaplin, are one of the few individuals who have brought immeasurable joy to my life via your fabulous films, both silent and sound movies, much sorrow too within that joy. I\u2019m sure that most of us here will agree that you are and will always be the greatest movie director, writer, actor and musician of all time. I adore all your movies. (Emotionally) My heart melts when I watch you, especially as the Tramp, with the apparel that you\u2019re wearing right now. I love you with all my heart. (The camera zooms on Chaplin smiling.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d96a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><br>Thank you for your kind words!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6f13\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Slowly turning to Woody.) You, dear Woody Allen, are the second greatest movie director, writer and actor of all time. Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Everyone Says I Love You, Anything Else, Midnight in Paris, and so many others are obviously some of my favourite movies of all time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c1cd\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Did you like Shadows and Fog?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"81fc\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Surely! I even read your play, Death, a few years earlier, on which it was based.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"07fc\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Can you believe this guy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"34a7\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Turning to Nietzsche.) You, dear Friedrich Nietzsche, are the greatest philosopher of all time. The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and all others are some of the most thought-provoking books of all time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a9df\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3a7a\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><\/strong>I gather that like Ms. Dickinson you are also unaware of anything that transpired in the world following your passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5b7d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1af3\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><br>It pains me to tell you that some of your writings were misused by the Nazis, your fellow countrymen and countrywomen, to help devise and execute the greatest crime of all time, not necessarily in terms of the total number of dead, but in the sheer cruelty and mindset of operating unrelentingly to annihilate all the Jews in Europe and eventually the rest of the world.&nbsp;Oh, they also murdered numerous political prisoners, homosexuals, and mentally handicapped individuals, as well as countless Gypsies, but they employed singular measures for the Jews, hoarding them throughout most of Europe and carting them in freight trains to many concentrations camps.&nbsp;The lucky ones died on the way from thirst and or the cold, or were massacred in the streets, or amassed and executed in forests. The unlucky ones, millions of them, reached the death camps to be gassed and cremated as if they had never existed.&nbsp;The Nazis obliterated six million Jews during a world war that sported over forty million dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7b04\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>(Crying out) Oh my God!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0c86\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>There is no God (Looking at Nietzsche), and you were one of the first philosophers to proclaim it so eloquently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f534\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><br>(The camera zooms on Hitchens who speaks to the audience.)&nbsp;I debated with so many faith-based fools on the matter.&nbsp;I am God and I assure you that there is no God.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9884\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(In physical pain) I am so very sorry for the absolute madness of my people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e7d7\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I refuse to even pronounce the name of your country and the so-called continent in which it operated, and almost anything else in the 20th century that has to do with it.&nbsp;Your sister collaborated wholeheartedly with the Nazis, which is a telling example of how one\u2019s family can be worse than or as bad as one\u2019s foulest foes.&nbsp;The whole story is so much worse but I\u2019ll leave it at that.<br>(Turning to Onfray.) You,&nbsp;<em>cher<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: dear) Michel Onfray, are one of the greatest contemporary philosophers and surely the most prolific.&nbsp;<em>L\u2019Ordre Libertaire: La Vie Philosophique D\u2019Albert&nbsp;<\/em>Camus (Subtitles: The Libertarian Order: The Philosophical Life of Albert Camus),&nbsp;<em>Un&nbsp;<\/em>requiem<em>&nbsp;ath\u00e9e<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: An Atheist Requiem), Thinking Islam (He can\u2019t pronounce anything else in French), Cosmos, Decadence.&nbsp;I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s going on but I can\u2019t speak French any longer.&nbsp;I can think in French but I can\u2019t voice it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0beb\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br><em>Ce n\u2019est pas vrai<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: This is not true).&nbsp;<em>Mais c\u2019est quoi ce<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: But what is this) mess? I too can\u2019t speak French any longer. It\u2019s my language. What\u2019s going on?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"efc2\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>I think that we may be limited in other languages. I can think in several languages that I did not know before and I guess that I can speak them too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f7f0\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br><em>Kan jag tala svenska?<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Can I speak Swedish?) Yes! (Laughing) I can speak Swedish.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0e75\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Turning to Moix.) You, very dear, Yann Moix, can surely guess how I feel about you. You\u2019re a revelation, a true wonder in this cockamamie world. I love you more than a brother whom I essentially never had. The amalgamation of suffering and pleasure involved in reading your books was unparalleled for me. I salute you for writing and speaking with all your organs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c1af\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>(Smiling)&nbsp;<em>Merci.<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Thanks.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2f55\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Turning to Roth.) You, dear, so dear Philip Roth, have brought me immense pleasure. I\u2019ve read all your books, both fiction and nonfiction. You are definitely my favourite author and one of the greatest writers of all time. You should have been the only author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature twice, and yet, they were too corrupt to even offer it to you once.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"190c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"90c7\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Turning to both Carli and Maria.) Finally, both of you, Carli Wanks and Maria Aizawa, have brought me another kind of pleasure (Smiling) in the past few years. I thank you for all the positions, close-ups and encouragements.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e9e7\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>You\u2019re welcome, sweetie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7065\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br>(Slightly bowing)&nbsp;<em>D\u014ditashimashite<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: You\u2019re welcome).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"105c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>How I wish a few more individuals whom I love and will love forever were present with us as well.&nbsp;The considerable Christopher Hitchens.&nbsp;Possibly the wittiest individual who had ever lived.&nbsp;Hitchslapping, his ability to utterly obliterate an opponent\u2019s entire argument in one or a few concise statements, orally or in writing, is still celebrated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"39e5\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br><strong>(The camera quickly zooms on a smiling Hitchens who speaks to the audience) What a nice assassin!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3934\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>(Continues.) The stirring Sigmund Freud. I know that you may have proved him a liar, Onfray, and a few others before you, but I fell in love more with his literature than his psychoanalysis, though some of his intuitions in the latter surely remain remarkable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"653a\"><strong>The poignant Primo Levi. A concentration camp survivor, chemist and heart-wrenching and -warming writer. His novel, If This Is a Man, could have been titled This Is a Man, since he and I, and everyone truly aware for that matter, know that this is indeed a man whether one construes it as referring to all the atrocities that men are capable of committing, or simply to all the atrocities that one man, himself, can endure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"661a\"><strong>The jaunty Jacques Brel. The greatest heartfelt singer and songwriter of the French language. Of course, I can\u2019t recite any lines from his songs, though I can do it in my mind, but at least Moix and Onfray can attest to his greatness. (The camera zooms on their faces nodding in agreement.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"529b\"><strong>The hereditary Herbert Pagani. A wide-ranging artist. A painter, sculptor, poet, singer, songwriter and so much more.&nbsp;His Plea for My Land; I can\u2019t pronounce it in French but I can suddenly pronounce it in Italian, his first language,&nbsp;<em>Appello per la mia terra<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Plea for My Land) is monumental to say the least.&nbsp;And so many other great songs both in French and Italian.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6c4d\"><strong>The loving and lovely Leah, my dear wife, the love of my life. (Pensive) And so many other individuals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1af6\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>I understand what you mean. I would also have loved to meet a number of individuals, but the ones present here are extraordinary as well. I was also thinking that facing this Western Wall, the ten of us make a minyan, a quorum of ten men, albeit an unorthodox one given the three women and seven gentiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9a08\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Six gentiles. Moix is a Jew. (The camera quickly zooms on Moix, smiling again.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"887d\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>I stand corrected. Maybe this is only one of many minyans, or whatever the number of individuals brought together for some purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c102\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Since I knew of all of you and love you all, we assumed that all of you are here because of me. But this premise may be wrong, after all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7551\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>From all that I heard so far, it seems to be the only plausible hypothesis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d512\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes. And if it is so, why the nine of you and not a different grouping? There are two philosophers, two writers, two movie directors-writers-actors-musicians, two actresses, one poet and one assassin. Cinema must rule in my life (Laughing). The only odd two are the poet and the assassin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a125\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Maybe not.&nbsp;Isn\u2019t a poet an assassin of some sort, combining specific words to shatter readers with their power.<br>\u201cBecause I could not stop for death<br>He kindly stopped for me<br>The carriage held but just ourselves<br>And immortality\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1baf\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>You too?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"97cc\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>We are all in your debt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"655b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are too kind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9b00\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><br>What can it mean, then? There are many assassins out there, deceased and living, but luckily none that I love, so I got Ms. Dickinson instead. Someone must still love me. (He kisses Dickinson\u2019s hand.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"22d9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Smooth!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fd9e\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><br>It\u2019s not your hand that I\u2019d kiss.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"80be\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) Very smooth. I can probably guess which part.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"36cb\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I doubt it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1771\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Really?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"de16\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ba92\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Whispering) One of my breasts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ca46\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>No.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ae09\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing and whispering) My pussy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4fbc\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>No.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d895\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Not my ass? Oops! (Laughing) I said it out loud.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ab64\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>No.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ec4e\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>What, then?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"238c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Your mouth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"382b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Blushing slightly) Too smooth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"20a4\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Looking at Maria) I don\u2019t think that you like me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bcc0\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br>I was a bit afraid when you told us that you were an assassin, but I\u2019m not any longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2040\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I\u2019m glad because I would easily give my life for you, Ms. Wanks, Ms. Dickinson, Charlie Chaplin, Nietzsche, and Moix, and maybe (Smiling) Onfray. The rest of you, dear Allen and Roth, are in your 80s. Were you younger in this wonderland, I would have given my life for you too (Smiling). There is one exception, however. I would have given my life for Charlie Chaplin at any age. (The camera quickly zooms on Chaplin\u2019s smiling face.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6248\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>My real name is Marsha Tilleland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dfad\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>What a sweet name! Yet, Carli Tillelland gives the tongue an extra fourth L movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5191\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>So smooth. You can kiss me if you want.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7626\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Holds her in his arms and kisses her somewhat passionately.) I must have died and gone to some kind of heaven. Maybe that\u2019s it. We\u2019re is some paradise.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8a1c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>I felt something too. Maybe we are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"49e5\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You\u2019re too kind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6ddf\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>I can be even kinder.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"da5b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Yes you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9797\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Do you want me to?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0a7d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>If you remember me after we get out of here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a862\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Don\u2019t worry! I\u2019ll remember you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b4de\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Please, do!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bc0d\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>Get a room already!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d8b8\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>I also noticed that I, and therefore we, can\u2019t walk very far. (He had been walking in all three directions.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"11e7\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>I noticed it too. (He also had been walking in all three directions.) What a mess!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"edd8\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>I don\u2019t see anything else near us, not even a chair, but I don\u2019t feel tired. Do any of you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"900d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>No! Nor thirsty or hungry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f356\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br><em>C\u2019est vrai, \u00e7a<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: That\u2019s true).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2420\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br>I feel a little scared.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bf9c\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br><strong><em>Kowagatte wa ikenai<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Don\u2019t be scared).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"66e7\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br><em>Arigat\u014dgozaimashita<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Thank you).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1dde\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>(Looking at Moix) You, now? (Looking at Jacques) Don\u2019t you like a few more porn stars?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ed0f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>More than a few, I must confess. But Carli; Marsha, and Maria are my favourites.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4930\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><br>(Speaking to the audience) I almost included a third porn star instead of Dickinson.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"efa2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I may know of all of you, but all of you also know of Nietzsche. (Addressing Nietzsche) \u201cThis life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence \u2014 even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a843\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><br>What my countrymen and countrywomen committed did not stop you from appreciating my work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6642\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>No! You appeared decades before them, you weren\u2019t, borrowing Philip Roth\u2019s coining, a Judeopath, you actually respected Jews, and your writings were so wise, so mind-opening.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fcbd\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><br>Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bafb\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>There\u2019s no need to thank me or anyone else for that matter. We should be thanking you. Thank you, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"57b6\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>The smoothest!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a820\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) I\u2019m not sure that you can deem it smooth when it\u2019s genuine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e215\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>What a sweetie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1675\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Jokily) We can all turn around and face the wall while you two do something together.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cb56\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Looking smilingly at Jacques) I\u2019m game if you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a69f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Now I know for sure that we\u2019re in some paradise. Marsha!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c1e3\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"40ba\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I feel that I won\u2019t be respectful toward them if I accept your offer. I can feel my heart beating like a drum. But I\u2019ll take a rain check. Please!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3ab1\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>You got it, sweetie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"759a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Looking at Nietzsche) I was always fascinated by your concept of eternal recurrence. The multiverse theory may be a different more plausible version of it. An infinite number of universes very similar to the one we live in but with some minute difference in each case. In another universe, Mozart and Beethoven could be here instead of Marsha and Maria. (Smiling) Probably not Marsha and Maria.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"edde\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>A smoothie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5fe4\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>What flavour?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9491\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Banana!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c1aa\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Of course! (Whispers in one of her ears) I would have preferred Marsha. It must be the best flavour.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f741\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Laughing) It\u2019s pretty good. I\u2019ve tasted it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"df8b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I know. I watched you do it many times.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"59f4\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>I bet you did.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bb4c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Is it something more for me to look forward to?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0b02\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Without a doubt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7b73\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><br>(Speaking to the audience) They would all be flabbergasted if they knew that I produce these so-called minyan gatherings all the time. Ten is, after all, the greatest number, (Smiling) after one, of course. Why these gatherings? you may ask. Remember that \u201cIt is absurd, even for believers, to imagine that God should owe them an explanation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"287a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Looking back at Nietzsche) Yet, it is your concept that remains the most intriguing to me. Reliving the same life over and over eternally. I often wondered if d\u00e9j\u00e0 vus were some aftertastes of our previous lives. I happen to have many d\u00e9j\u00e0 vus relating to places and movie scenes. I\u2019ve been in many places and watched myriad movies, which would be the simplest explanation for my d\u00e9j\u00e0 vus. But I still prefer your idea. Perhaps because it\u2019s more literary than reality. After all, \u201cTruth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"66c5\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>Yes, but in light of a conceivable multiverse and surely other findings and theories spanning over a century since my demise, my idea has been carried away like a grain of sand blown in the wind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"84e6\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>You are being too harsh. Jacques, Joseph? is right. Your idea of eternal recurrence is more appealing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"aee7\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>I think so too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b20b\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>Me too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9bcd\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>Life and death over and over again for everyone who had ever lived and died with no way to know it. Sure! Nothing could be more fitting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bc94\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>\u201cThat it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fc71\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>It\u2019s beautiful too, and especially coming from you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7f00\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1845\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>\u201cAll that we don\u2019t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fbdd\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I love you too, Philip Roth. I don\u2019t think that I felt it as much before.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dbe9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) You may have implied it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"470e\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I said earlier that I would easily give my life for all of you except Woody Allen and you because you were in your 80s. I\u2019m sorry and I take it back. I would easily give my life for both of you too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ffed\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Who\u2019s talking here, Jacques or Joseph?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a777\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Both.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"713b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Can I call you, JJ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"841d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You can call me whatever you like (Whispering smilingly in one of his ears) except for Jewie Joe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f25d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>But it may be the title of an upcoming movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bae2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You don\u2019t have a note in your movie-title drawer with my name on it, so I doubt it very much.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8dac\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Can you believe this Joseph?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a2fe\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I love you too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3ddf\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>I\u2019m touched.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c984\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>I know that you love me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"945c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Indubitably.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d3c0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>It\u2019s true. We are here for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9a16\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>It appears so.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2962\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>It\u2019s becoming evident. You seem to be mostly in love with the past, but then, most of us are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2908\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br><\/strong>I<strong>\u2019m mostly in love with the past because I\u2019ve practically nothing in the present and I\u2019m completely unaware of anything in the future. My d\u00e9j\u00e0 vus can obviously never foretell the future. They can only plug the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1269\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>You have me, sweetie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3075\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>You know what I mean.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a976\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>You have the rest of us too. Charlie Chaplin! (Chaplin smiles, nodding in agreement). Woody Allen!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0a69\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>(Looks at the sky) Sure!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4201\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Philip Roth!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f803\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>(Smiling) Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9875\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Moix?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d972\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6c94\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Emily Dickinson!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ac29\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>Certainly!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6530\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Nietzsche!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4f68\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a044\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Onfree?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"47e3\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>Onfray!&nbsp;<em>Au\u00f0vita\u00f0<\/em>!&nbsp;Of course, in Icelandic; a language that I couldn\u2019t speak before.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"13de\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Sorry. Onfray. And Maria!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"18ab\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br>(Bowing slightly)&nbsp;<em>Hai<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Yes).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0896\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Thank you, Marsha! Thank you, all! (Reflectively) I was thinking that we assumed that Dickinson, Nietzsche, and Chaplin came back to life, but what if instead, the rest of us are also dead?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e9af\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><br>An interesting thought but again, all this only relates to individuals that you like.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2c40\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Love!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fb97\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes, love!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e8e5\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>We can apply everything that has been said up to now as much to us being dead as to us being alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3016\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><br>True!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b994\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>I don\u2019t know about some of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"10bd\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling) True! The tactile instances would be stranger in this context.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"44dd\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>It is still an idea to be considered.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1bab\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>Mathematically, we have seven living versus three deceased, so there may be a greater chance that we are all alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"408d\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br><\/strong>I<strong>\u2019m surprised that I was thinking the same thing given that I tend to lean, head first (Smiling) towards the lugubrious.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9975\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>We\u2019re dead? I\u2019m dead? Possibly. \u201cI\u2019m not afraid of death; I just don\u2019t want to be there when it happens.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d1f3\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>That\u2019s one of your famous sayings. You kill me (Smiling), except that we may be dead already.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"91f1\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br>That\u2019s not funny. I\u2019m afraid of death.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a769\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Honey! Is there anything you\u2019re not afraid of?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4412\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Sex.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"96b0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling)&nbsp;<em>Hai<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Yes).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6e66\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Nobody\u2019s afraid of sex, sweetie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"05bf\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling) You\u2019ll be surprised, Marsha. There\u2019s always someone who\u2019s afraid of something, including sex. It\u2019s called erotophobia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2984\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Are you serious?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ad51\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I wouldn\u2019t lie to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f54a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Let\u2019s hope we\u2019re not dead because I doubt that dead people have sex whether they fear it or not.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d04d\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>With you, even dead I\u2019ll rise to the occasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e858\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) I believe you, sweetie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"01ba\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>Come on! You two can go to that corner and the rest of us can watch from that corner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cee6\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Come on! I\u2019m not a porn star. And in front of the Western Wall? Even as an atheist I couldn\u2019t do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8c7b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>What if it\u2019s now or never?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"db78\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Never, then, and especially if we\u2019re dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8b1a\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Jacques? Joseph? Which name do you prefer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8174\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>You can call me whatever you want. You\u2019ve been calling me, sweetie from the start.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9e0f\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Sweetie, you are! Sweetie is right, and I gave you a rain check.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6ffe\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>What a lucky guy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0f0a\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I\u2019m not so sure about that. I\u2019ve been somewhat lucky. I\u2019m lucky right now with all of you beside me. But I think that my luck\u2019s run out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"80ab\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Don\u2019t say that!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9e95\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>It\u2019s a serious situation, dear Marsha. (Looking at Chaplin) We need the Tramp to give us hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3695\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>\u201cLife is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7a49\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling) In most cases, yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"213b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><br>\u201cA day without laughter is a day wasted.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"181c\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Still smiling) Yes, except that laughter can never have the same intensity ever again upon perceiving the extreme severity that cruelty can reach.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9b6a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><br>I know, Sweetie (Everyone laughs). I wasn\u2019t looking for a laugh. Didn\u2019t you agree to be called Sweetie?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4e58\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I did.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"770e\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><br>My depiction of the monsters in the Great Dictator pale in comparison to the real monsters that took over Europe. I couldn\u2019t even imagine that their monstrosity could attain such a level when I was making the movie. I agree that laughter could never be the same after such horrors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f056\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I\u2019m glad that you couldn\u2019t imagine it. We wouldn\u2019t have had this masterpiece if you could or knew what was going to happen. Except for the monsters and their minions, I don\u2019t think that anyone could have known.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"eee1\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><br>It appears so.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4bd2\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Your movies after the Great Dictator, after the war, were different but masterpieces as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3796\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><br>I am afraid that I am not aware of anything after 1945.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"87f0\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Yes. You are in your 50s? here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6e25\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><br>56.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"df68\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I think that it\u2019s safe to tell you that you made four movies after the Great Dictator. Monsieur Verdoux in 1947, a masterpiece in so many ways about a man who loses his job in the 1929 crash and supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money. Limelight in 1952, a masterpiece of the heart, with your best music, about a has-been comedian and a suicidal ballet dancer who share their lives to find meaning and hope. A King in New York in 1957, a masterpiece of the mind about a deposed European monarch who finds shelter in New York where he becomes somewhat of a celebrity. And A Countess from Hong Kong in 1967, about an ambassador returning to America who meets a Russian countess who\u2019s hiding in his cabin. You weren\u2019t an actor in this film, which may have been the reason why it was your least critically acclaimed movie even though Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren played the main roles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"37db\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>It is a bit startling to learn things about my future self, especially to find out that I will be alive and making movies at least until age 78.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6b8a\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>You\u2019ll be alive beyond that age and that\u2019s all I\u2019ll add if you don\u2019t mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"690e\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>It\u2019s more than enough. Thank you for your kind words!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ad4f\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Thank you for all the laughter and for all the sorrow! In my case, I may have had more tears than laughs watching your movies because your comedies always had both misery and happiness, both in the foreground and background, which was also what made you unique and the best among your contemporaries and beyond, and your music was always perfectly scored.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9189\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3078\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>No need, dear Sir! No need at all!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8d09\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>When you say that you love someone, you really love him or her.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7842\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Yes, and I love you too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4a4b\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I know, Sweetie, but not in the same way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b63a\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>I think that my love for you may be the greatest given that it encompasses all of you from head to toes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4ea6\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Playfully) Oh, Sweetie! Are you trying to capture my heart too?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"13d8\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>It\u2019s the best combination, heart and mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e85f\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>What about Maria?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8f20\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>What about her?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ea5b\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Do you love her too in the same way?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7a8d\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b654\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>That\u2019s it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ce44\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>No, my love!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"28d5\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Happily) Sweetie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4b2a\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Marsha, baby!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"27ff\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>Come on! You can go to that corner and the rest of us can talk at that corner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9b0d\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Thanks, but no! We have to get out of here first, though I admit that I\u2019m not eager to lose sight of all of you, especially those who are no longer with us. Perhaps, it\u2019s for them that we are here; for dazzling Dickinson, intense Nietzsche, and enchanting Chaplin; to let them know what had happened in the world since their passing, though they had never passed for many of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8ec4\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>You may have a good point. We may be here because of you but for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d3ad\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>A very interesting idea, indeed!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0138\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>Yes, but what is the point of all this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3b6f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Speaking to the audience a bit angrily) What is the point? What is the point of anything? And to know that most of you still believe in me? God, not Hitchens! Though I know that some of you believe in Hitchens, which to think of it, is much more defensible than believing in me. (Disgusted) What did I do to merit any belief? Any faith? You invented everything about me. You even gave me a son. What were you thinking? Clearly, you were not thinking at all, which happens too frequently. Most of them here do not believe in me for many valid reasons. Yet, one reason would have been sufficient, and it need not even have to be scientific.<br>But you are God, so how can you say that there is no God? you may reason. But here lies the hitch \u2014 pun intended.&nbsp;Your definition of God is unavoidably flawed.&nbsp;There is no such being or thing that is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. Your God belongs to fiction, not reality. I am what I am, but I am not all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good. That is all that I will say about myself.<br>But why did you refer to yourself as God at the beginning? you may ask. It was the simplest way to waive some of your misgivings and allow the story to evolve. I do like good stories, and every story has the potential to be a good one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1515\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>(Looking at Moix) I was thinking about, as you said, the point of all this. Most of the comments, if not all, were very instructive, but Onfray\u2019s initial comment about it, that the rest of us being here has to do with Sweetie, seems to be the most plausible. Sweetie is the key.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"90ae\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>It\u2019s funny to be called Sweetie by you, dear Nietzsche. It seems to only fit Marsha\u2019s lips, and perhaps Chaplin\u2019s, but it\u2019s fine. Sweetie Shabbat. It has a nice ring to it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9144\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>It does.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"51d3\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Sweetie Messier sounds even better.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4a10\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Laughing) Yes, it does.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"151c\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>Maybe something specific must be said by one of us to bring this minyan to an end.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a9cc\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I don\u2019t want it to end, and I\u2019m sure that Ms. Dickinson, Nietzsche, and Chaplin are also hoping that it could last much longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a440\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c01b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0502\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"738f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) We must stop talking, then, at least about how to stop this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0c06\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>What do you think that Sweetie and I have been doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e8cb\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br><\/strong>Touch\u00e9! I wonder if it also counts as a French word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d69e\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>Did you think it in French or English when you said it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f66d\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>English!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8d2f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Then I don\u2019t think that it counts, but again, who knows.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"03ef\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>We can easily test it. I never spoke in French since we\u2019ve met, so we can count the words until I can\u2019t pronounce anything in French any longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a5e4\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>Great idea!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"38cf\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Who\u2019s counting?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4dad\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>I will.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1b5d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Here we go.&nbsp;<em>Je n\u2019ai pas peur de la mort; je ne veux juste pas<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: I\u2019m not afraid to die, I just don\u2019t want to) be there when it happens. Oh my God!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0275\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>Twelve words!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0fe4\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes, twelve words! We have to test it in another language.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0c0c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Let\u2019s see. Hebrew! Ready?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c259\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b288\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ae60\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br><em>Ani lo mefahed mimavet; ani pashout lo rotse lihiyot shum ke\u2019she\u2019ze kore<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: I\u2019m not afraid to die, I just don\u2019t want to be there when it happens).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0bb9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) Twelve words.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e152\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br><\/strong>(<strong>Also laughing) Yes, exactly twelve words. (Everyone is laughing.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d75d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Hebrew is concise. I can\u2019t pronounce one more word in Hebrew. Let\u2019s try Spanish, of course! Ready?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f297\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1023\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a8fc\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br><em>No le tengo miedo a la muerte; Simplemente no quiero estar all\u00ed&nbsp;<\/em>(Subtitles: I\u2019m not afraid to die, I just don\u2019t want to be there) when it happens.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ccd5\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>Twelve words!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5260\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Yes! Twelve words! So, we can only speak up to twelve words in other languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b53c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>The Western Wall. Four Jews out of ten. Twelve words in other languages. This strange situation is becoming even stranger.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2fdc\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Looking at Jacques) What is your favourite language?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"df79\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Even though French is my first language, English is my favourite. So is that why English is the main language that we can speak?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cbad\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>I think so, which shows yet again that we are here because of you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ead2\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>How I wish that Leah was here! Whoever is responsible for this may be unkind, after all, granting me the impossible with Ms. Dickinson, Nietzsche, and Chaplin, and the improbable with the rest of you, but denying me the love of my life. Life is a bitch and a bastard.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1116\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Yes, it\u2019s the human condition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5037\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Looking at Moix) You are probably the only one left who would know the name of a song and could still pronounce it in French. Woody Allen too, since it appeared in one of his movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"220d\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>Which song?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4b7c\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Charles Trenet\u2019s, What is left of our loves?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1a60\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br><\/strong><em><strong>Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6b1f\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Yes! Yes! So, are you what is left of my loves? (Looking at each one of them for a few seconds as he pronounces their name) Ms. Emily Dickinson! Friedrich Nietzsche! Charlie Chaplin! Woody Allen! Philip Roth! Yann Moix! Michel Onfray! Maria Aizawa! Marsha Tilleland! Carli Tilleland!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4ab0\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>Yes, Sweetie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"87d3\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I have other loves but you are the second greatest minyan minus one of my loves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ec00\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Appearing to everyone) Your second greatest minyan of your loves if you count me in.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d690\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Oh my God! Christopher Hitchens!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6dcb\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Right on both accounts, my dear boy! It is a good day. Is it not?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f9f3\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I love you so much. Now I know that I\u2019m probably dreaming the greatest dream that has ever been dreamed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"97af\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are not dreaming, Joseph Shabbat. What a quaint name! Or should I call you Sweetie as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1dd5\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>You can call me whatever your great mind and heart desire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e5a1\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I\u2019ll call you Joseph Shabbat.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d70e\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Are you responsible for this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b8d3\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"de2f\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>But even if you are, you can\u2019t be God since there\u2019s no such being.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"26eb\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Right, you are, my dear boy. But referring to me as God is the closest you will get to knowing who I am.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"abed\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Can I call you Christopher Hitchens or the Hitch, then?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b36f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes, you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fbca\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Dear Hitch! (Pauses for a few seconds.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"49db\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f10f\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Is all this on my account?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b2c2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c937\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Whose, then?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"33c9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Looking at everyone) It is for you to find out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"359c\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>It\u2019s easy, now. But is this over if I reveal on whose account it is?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8073\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Here, yes, but you will live again in other spaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"17e9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Looking at Jacques) Do you want me to reveal on whose account it is?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1414\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Not yet! Don\u2019t we have other questions? For one, how were Emily Dickinson, Charlie Chaplin, and you brought back to life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a0ca\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>That is a question that I will not answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1223\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>It\u2019s easy for me too, then. I also know on whose account we\u2019re here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"425f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Does anyone else know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"02b4\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>I do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"752c\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>Me too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2956\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>I do too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0a87\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>It\u2019s obvious.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fcb9\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>I think that I do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4f47\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>I think so too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1441\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>Is this over if we all know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"370f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Only if one of you articulates on whose account you are all here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"826a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Then I think that I also know.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f544\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br>I am not sure that I know.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1bb3\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Dear God! (Pauses for a few seconds.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8003\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d470\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>What\u2019s the twelve-word rule about?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7a5e\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Mostly to render the situation somewhat funnier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e425\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Are we here for your amusement?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"50b9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Not mine, theirs!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c802\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Whose?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d101\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>The audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bbaa\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Laughing uncontrollably) Where is the audience?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3dda\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Anywhere!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"180a\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>How long can this go on for?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"184a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>As long as none of you articulates on whose account you are here, so as long as you want it to.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e995\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>Is there a reason for the Western Wall?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9445\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>It usually makes the conversation more interesting when there is at least one Jew in the tensome or minyan as you called it, and here we have three or four, or five if you count me too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2df0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>Why a minyan, initially?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"53db\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Since ten is the greatest number after two and one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6d7a\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>\u201cTwo bodies therefore be;<br>Bind one, and one will flee.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"115a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>As true as this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7190\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Do we remember this after it\u2019s done?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3a5f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Great question! No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"48a3\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>No? So, the audience is the entire point. We don\u2019t get anything out of this after it\u2019s done?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d45c\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>I won\u2019t remember Sweetie when this is over?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caa1\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>No and no!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e488\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>I told you two to get it going. It\u2019s not too late.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"17a8\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>So, this is like life. There\u2019s nothing after it\u2019s done.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"662c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ba9d\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Do you ever make an exception?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2520\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c6ae\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Well, this time you must make one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6b55\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Must I?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ae5b\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Everyone here is going to join me and say yes. Ready? (They all, including Hitchens, say) Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1834\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) I doubt it, but who knows?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3a93\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I know. We know. We simply won\u2019t say on whose account we\u2019re here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d063\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You will tire eventually and one of you will utter it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"06a0\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>We won\u2019t because I love every one of them and would give my life for them, including you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0b12\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I am touched.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1ae5\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I also suspect that like Dickinson, Nietzsche, and Chaplin, we are copies of the originals, who are continuing to live their lives in the real world. Are you all with me? (They all, including Hitchens, say) Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7fbf\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) It is an interesting but erroneous theory.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b7fc\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>You won\u2019t tell us the truth, so theories are what we can consider.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1144\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Indeed! It is part of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9cea\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Of what?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0dc8\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Of this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9c30\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>So, are you always what is left of our loves?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4d16\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Rarely, and I am seldom loved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"55be\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Well, I love you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ef9f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>The one whom I represent or the one whom I am?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9d62\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Both! The one whom you are gave me the fortune to meet the one whom you represent and nine others whom I love as well. You gave me a minyan of loves. I\u2019m the most fortunate here. Thank you for this! Thank you for giving me hope!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a27e\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are welcome, my dear boy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8437\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>This could be heaven, after all. Another theory, of course. We don\u2019t seem to tire. We don\u2019t seem to require nourishment. I\u2019m only surrounded by individuals whom I love. I, we, could stay here forever and just talk about anything that comes to mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f71e\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>What about sex?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3aa1\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling) We can talk about it too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bb39\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) You know what I mean.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8a68\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Yes! But I don\u2019t see myself having sex against that wall and in front of you and the audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cb94\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Ask God\/Hitchens for a canopy bed with opaque curtains! The rest of us could talk at some corner at the edge of this heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d439\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>What a great idea!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dfd9\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>(Looking smilingly at Maria and then at Jacques) Ask him for two!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6cf1\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>(Diffidently) Could I get one too?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2ed8\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Who\u2019s got your fancy, Ms. Dickinson?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d2f5\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Still diffident but smiling) Just in case I do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ebf2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>\u201cLove is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7656\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) I agree.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"69d3\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>No can do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"633e\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>I wonder if we need to breathe. (He holds his breath for about a minute.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4c5a\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>It would be unbearable if we didn\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d806\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>I agree.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4288\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Apparently not! We can\u2019t be alive, then.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c2b7\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>I\u2019ll hold my breath too. (He holds his breath for about a minute.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"db40\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>We may be alive but in a different way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d4e0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes, we don\u2019t need to breathe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"98df\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>Oh my God!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3e3e\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Yes?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"494d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Troubled) Sweetie, please hold me!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5658\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Embraces Carli for about 20 seconds, kisses her, and then puts his right arm around her waist.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"40ab\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>(Looks at Maria and then embraces her for about 30 seconds, and then holds her left hand.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0a12\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Can someone hold me too?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a134\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>(Looks at Dickinson and then embraces her for about 20 seconds.) May I stand by you from now on?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2842\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Please, do! (Nietzsche stands next to her smiling.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e62f\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>(Looking at Hitchens) We need more women, or you could have included a few homosexuals. I\u2019m sure that (Looking at Jacques) he loves several gays. Do you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9755\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Alan Turing, Freddie Mercury, Stephen Fry come to mind, though I think that pairing us wasn\u2019t a major reason for this gathering.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"643d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Probably not, but you forget that there\u2019s an audience, and the audience always likes some love and sex in the show.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9c12\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>(Nodding) Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"81b7\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling) There is some love, but sex doesn\u2019t seem to be feasible. (Kisses Carli keenly) Kissing, however, is the next best thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"64ba\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>(Laughing) It is! (Kisses and embraces him.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a4bc\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Looking at Maria) May I kiss you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9eec\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br>(Smiling) Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2239\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>(He kisses her a few times, the last kiss lasting about 20 seconds, and then looks at Jacques and slightly bows.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d458\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Laughing) Don\u2019t bow to me! I love you. Bow to her!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a107\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>I don\u2019t think that she wants me to bow to her. (Looks at Maria) Do you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"de22\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br><em>Iie<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: No).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d466\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Looking at Dickinson) Do you want me to kiss you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0b7d\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Smiling)&nbsp;<em>Hai<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Yes).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a5c8\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>(He kisses her for about 10 seconds and then looks at Jacques and smiles.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"be9a\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Hugging Chaplin) You are one of my favourite moviemakers as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3414\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>Thank you! From what Sweetie told us, I gather that you are one of the great ones too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3f25\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>He exaggerates.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e4d9\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>No, I don\u2019t! If it wasn\u2019t for Charlie Chaplin, you would be the greatest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"abb2\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>Thanks, Sweetie! You are sweet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7e0d\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>Isn\u2019t he? (Looking at Hitchens) Are our feelings genuine in this place?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"feac\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><br>They are, my dear girl!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"50f0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>I\u2019m glad because (Looking at Jacques) I really like you, Sweetie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"317e\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Kisses her) I liked you before but now I feel that I love you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"84a0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Oh, Sweetie! I will love you too as long as we stay here given that we don\u2019t remember anything after it\u2019s over.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2142\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>No matter, Marsha! Let\u2019s live for the moment! Perhaps it\u2019s all that we could ever have.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"06d4\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Kisses him and whispers in his right ear) I love you too!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8b87\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Kisses her hands and then drops to his knees and kisses her feet.) There are many other parts that I want to kiss.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b920\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) I bet that there are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2a37\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>(Looking at Hitchens) Come on! Be a sport and give them a canopy bed with opaque curtains! I\u2019m not asking you to undo the Holocaust.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8e5e\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Pleadingly) Dear God! Undo the Shoah if you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"829b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Such requests cannot be granted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cda1\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>Do you grant any requests?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c7af\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"26ec\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>So, what is the point of your appearance?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3fa4\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>Let me guess! For the audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5559\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Largely, yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a821\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Dispassionately, looking at everyone) What did you expect? Perfection? There\u2019s no such being or thing. If \u201cnature is an enormous restaurant\u201d as Woody Allen\u2019s main character, Boris, explains in Love and Death, then the universe is a colossal dicer. Stars die, galaxies disappear, and black holes ultimately disintegrate. And we, specks of dust, did we ever exist? Shakespeare was right. \u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.\u201d Who wants to play? As if we had a choice. I look at each one of you and it breaks my broken heart. Some of you died and the rest of us are going to die. It\u2019s been a blast. \u201cSo long, Marianne, it\u2019s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again,\u201d sang the great Leonard Cohen. Well, it\u2019s no laughing matter. After all, \u201cWe possess art lest we perish of the truth.\u201d Yes, \u201cTell the truth, but tell it slant,\u201d declared Ms. Dickinson. Yet, \u201cDeath is a false fear. When it is here, you won\u2019t be. When it\u2019s not, you are here,\u201d argued Onfray. \u201cIt was astrophysics that I wanted to do. Calculate stars. Guess galaxies. Look over God,\u201d mentioned Moix. But this is what you would have seen. A set up setting. \u201cI always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying,\u201d said Chaplin. I tend to cry at home or in the car. \u201cOld age isn\u2019t a battle; old age is a massacre,\u201d revealed Roth. And death is murder. But Hitchens may have said it best. \u201cOwners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.\u201d Thus, most individuals are like dogs, some individuals are like cats, and the rest are dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4d5d\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Sadly) Sweetie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1c1a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are the sweet one, along with Ms. Dickinson and Ms. Aizawa, but I only yearn for you. Only women can make life bearable, both for men and other women. Can you imagine a world without women? It\u2019s the foremost definition of loneliness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3e21\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Kisses and embraces Jacques) My Sweetie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fb8f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Looking at Hitchens) \u201cLiterature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"93af\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You just have to say the magic word, that is, on whose account you are here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2a40\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>That\u2019s not what I meant and you know it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9470\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I do, dear boy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0c16\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Who\u2019s the audience? Other entities like you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7544\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Such a question cannot be answered.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1de8\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>At this point, you are basically useless.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a164\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>The one whom I am or the one whom I represent?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b1b1\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>Both, unless the one whom you represent, Hitchens, can be himself unhindered.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e62d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>He is, my dear boy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a89a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>What\u2019s your take on our situation, dear Hitchens?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4cce\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) \u201cThere is a sense in which all of us are prisoners of knowledge.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5bf4\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>I think that we passed that point.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"573d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes, my dear boy! The ball is in your court.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"20d2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I don\u2019t think that you were Hitchens with the last sentence. Can we only have Hitchens from now on?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a41b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You forget that it is not Hitchens that brought you hither.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"94ea\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You won\u2019t or can\u2019t say and do much of anything, so Hitchens would be far preferable. Too bad that he\u2019s not separate from you because I would have loved to see you debate him, even that I know that he would have easily beaten you. I theorise that no one in the universe, or multiverse if it exists, could beat Hitchens, unless, of course, the subject was foreign to him, which he would have candidly admitted if it was the case. And two or more instances of Hitchens debating each other would always end in a draw.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d3cd\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>I heard of Hitchens but I never heard someone hold him in such high esteem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3abd\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>If it wasn\u2019t for the existence of dear Charlie Chaplin, I would have easily declared Hitchens to be the most lovable individual of all time, for me at least.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4f55\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>From what I heard you say about the individuals whom you love, Hitchens must be a great man.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dbb9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>He\u2019s so much more. I think that I would have gladly given up on the rest of my life for his return to the living, but as we all know too well, sadly, no one departed can be alive again, despite the apparent recurrence of Ms. Dickinson, Nietzsche, and Chaplin, as well as Hitchens through the outer guise of the originator of this oasis. I do welcome this magnificent manifestation but know that it\u2019s not real, especially concerning at least the four of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b7af\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>I think that we all agree that it\u2019s a wonderful phenomenon.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bfe2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yet, we hope that it\u2019s much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8419\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>It\u2019s much more for Ms. Dickinson, Nietzsche, and Chaplin, and in a lesser degree for Hitchens, and it\u2019s so much more for me. I couldn\u2019t even have imagined such a singularity and I still can\u2019t. I must be dreaming my greatest dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ea51\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are not dreaming.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7ec2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>It\u2019s the best theory that I have, and your claim that it\u2019s false doesn\u2019t disprove it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cb77\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>I concur.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"55d4\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>I also agree.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5a76\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Me too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9570\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>Me too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3b16\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Please, abstain, Ms. Dickinson, Nietzsche, and Chaplin, especially if you also agree, since we don\u2019t know if Hitchens\/God appreciates impudence, which may cost you in future recurrences in other singularities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cfb4\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>I also agree, and Sweetie\u2019s right.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"05b3\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Thanks, Marsha! I love you. And as dear Nietzsche had said, \u201cWe love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0285\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>I love you too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c7d9\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>\u201cI was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word, and the third, a good deed.\u201d I also agree and do not fear the consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d16f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are free to say whatever your minds think and hearts desire. There will be no consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"96b5\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Thank you! But can we trust you? Personally, I deeply appreciate this singular situation. Yet, should the others, especially those who were apparently replicated, feel the same? I prefer to raise the possibility, nothing more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"07cc\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>No worries, my dear boy! I highly regard freedom of thought whether it leads to notable events or dire occurrences.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6ecc\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>(Looking at everyone) I think that we can trust him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2096\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>I think so too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"87d9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I do too. How could I not? But we\u2019re not in Kansas anymore, nor at the Western Wall. We don\u2019t even know where we are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"70fb\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><br>At least we know who we are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4544\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Lightly) Sometimes I still wonder who I am. I look at my reflection in the mirror and don\u2019t quite recognize myself. It\u2019s as if I\u2019m looking at a stranger who resembles me. What happened to you? I lament to myself. What has become of you? The passage from childhood to adulthood seems seamless, but then, one day, the transformation becomes too excessive. You said it too well in Everyman, dear Philip Roth. \u201cOld age isn\u2019t a battle; old age is a massacre.\u201d I\u2019m in my 50s and I already feel that way. Life is not a bargain, as you all know, but since we\u2019re here, some say, we might as well live it. Of course! What else is there to say? Hitchens had, has a unique take on this. Please, Hitchens! Tell us your issue with the party going on after you\u2019re gone!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8c2c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>\u201cThe clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on, only henceforth in my absence. It is the second of those thoughts, the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing. Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1533\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Onfray<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are a great man.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c0b6\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Thank you, my dear boy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f308\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are all great men and women.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5ebc\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Thanks, Sweetie! But I\u2019m not a great woman.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d4b1\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>To me, you are, dear Marsha.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8e5f\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>Come on already! Let\u2019s walk as far as we can and let these two birds make an egg.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3650\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) Please, do! And cover your eyes in case it\u2019s not too far.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f996\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) But Hitchens will be watching.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a255\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) I won\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cc01\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You won\u2019t but your possessor will.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d390\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) I will.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dc84\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Kisses Carli for a few seconds) I\u2019ll do whatever you wish.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"987d\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>We\u2019ll go to the wall and (Addressing everyone else) the rest of you, please walk as far away as you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dc9b\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>(Smiling) If it works, Maria and I may also want some privacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4c54\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br><em>Hai<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Yes).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1daf\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>We could soon call this the Western Wall Interchange, or the Wailing Wall Well. (Everyone laughs.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f1f9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(He embraces Carli whose back is against the wall. Everyone save Hitchens is about 30 feet away talking to each other. Hitchens is a few feet away from Jacques and Carli.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"538d\"><strong>Oh, Marsha! You are even more beautiful and more feminine in my arms. Carli Tilleland! I would like my tongue to play the four L movements repeatedly on each one of your enticing nipples and endlessly in your exquisite &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2ee7\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Go ahead, Sweetie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cbba\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(He lifts her dress, kisses her breasts and then swallows her nipples for about a minute each. She removes her panties. He takes it from her, smelling and breathing in the scent) It\u2019s sweeter than I\u2019ve imagined.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"419c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) Oh, Sweetie! (He drops to his knees and buries his head between her thighs.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f10b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Only to the audience) I have been organising these shindigs for a long time and this is the first time that two of the protagonists are on the verge of having intercourse after a relatively short amount of time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e81b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(As if in pain) Sweetie! You\u2019re going to make me \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dc60\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Go ahead, baby! Go ahead! (Keeping his head between her thighs.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e99b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>And you\u2019ll be in my mouth?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"67bd\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>No, baby! You\u2019re too beautiful and it\u2019s too messy. (Keeping his head between her thighs.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"58e2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Oh, Sweetie! It breaks my heart that we won\u2019t know each other after this is over.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"beed\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>What did you expect, sweet Marsha? Life doesn\u2019t imitate art, after all. (Keeping his head between her thighs.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d42f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Addressing Jacques) You call this art?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"37fc\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Aren\u2019t you an artist? (Keeping his head between her thighs.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f2cf\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I am more of a creator, a designer of social settings. You are right. I am an artist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8d4b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Can you leave us be for a little longer? (Keeping his head between her thighs.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9a1f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Consider me gone. (Remains a few feet from them.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ef0a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>I\u2019m \u2026 I\u2019m &#8230; (He keeps his head between her thighs until she moves it away and kisses him.) Sweetie! What about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9fb0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Are you kidding? I had so much pleasure. We could do it again later if we\u2019re still here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d35e\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>Any time, Sweetie! But next time, you have to \u2026 too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b8b9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I did in my mind. Trust me! I\u2019m used to \u2026 in my head.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"221a\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>But I want you to \u2026 for real.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ebdb\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Had I been a woman, I would have too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e6bb\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Laughing) Yes, you would have. I would have made sure that you did. (Carli adjusts her clothing. Everyone approaches them.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8151\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You never know. If there\u2019s a next time, the artist may turn me into a woman.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b454\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I do not change one\u2019s sex.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1e9c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Even when you know that an individual would prefer it so?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"db6b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5169\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>You are missing many other scenarios by not doing so. I\u2019m sure that the audience would love it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"91af\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I will take it under consideration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3303\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Will I get the chance to appear as a woman if you agree to do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c4b9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I cannot say.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1376\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><br>(Looks at Maria) It\u2019s our turn.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b6a8\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>The wall is long enough to accommodate more than one couple.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e11c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>But you\u2019re a voyeur, so I thought that you would prefer one couple at a time, unless you fancy orgies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"892b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You can do whatever you like.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8ab8\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>Really?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1b89\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>You know what I mean.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4ab9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>I don\u2019t know what you mean.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"178c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Perhaps someone else can explain it to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b155\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Addressing Hitchens) He wrote a novel about orgies, the title of which I can\u2019t pronounce because I used up my twelve words in French. The English translation would be Threesom without the e.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"901c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) That\u2019s a good one. The title is&nbsp;<em>Partouz<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bde9\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Yes! Threesom, of course, doesn\u2019t sound as exotic as the title in French.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d0cf\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) True! (Looks at Maria) Are you ready?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dd70\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><br>(Smiling)&nbsp;<em>Oui<\/em>&nbsp;(Subtitles: Yes).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4c19\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Puts his right arm around Maria\u2019s waist) Do you want them to walk away from our spot at the wall?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"a4ed\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Smiling) No. They can watch us if they want to.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5003\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Addressing Hitchens) It looks like you won\u2019t be the only visible onlooker this time around. I can\u2019t use the French word any longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d3a1\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I am an observer, not a voyeur.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"70b0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><br>Are you kidding? (He takes Maria\u2019s left hand and they walk to the wall followed only by Hitchens. Everyone else walks about 30 feet away.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"de39\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><br>(Addressing everyone as they walk away) Are we sure of this? I once dreamed that I was kissing the Maria in <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9737\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Julie Andrews?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b1c2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>No! The Maria character!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3074\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(He embraces Maria whose back is against the wall. Hitchens is a few feet away.) Oh, Maria! Hermosa Maria (Subtitles: Beautiful Maria)! Jacques really knows his porn stars, his women. (She smiles) You are more beautiful than Carli. (She smiles again) Maria Aizawa! Even your last name is enticing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"858f\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br>As you know, it means some kind of swamp in Japanese.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0b79\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>To me, you are a marsh, a wetland, a bayou. (He unbuttons and lowers her jeans; smells, kisses and licks the part of the panties that covers her \u2026 for 20 seconds; lowers her panties; and then buries his head between her thighs.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f404\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Moaning) Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhh!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1632\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Moix<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>(Unbuttons her shirt and white bra) My God! They are so beautiful. (Buries his head between her breasts.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c0d0\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(To the audience) They are!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"36be\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Maria<\/mark><\/strong><br>(She unbuttons and drops his pants, lowers his shorts, drops to her knees and moves her head to and fro between his thighs.) Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4cfd\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(To the audience) What a \u2026sucker!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"beb2\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>(Looking at Nietzsche) Surely, we are not next.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"71d5\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>Surely<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d4bd\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>\u201cI don\u2019t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5224\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Doctor, doctor, what do you say, let\u2019s put the ex back in sex!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d38c\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><br>Good one!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"79d8\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I prefer Roth\u2019s Portnoy\u2019s proposition. \u201cDoctor, doctor, what do you say, let\u2019s put the id back in yid.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"94c7\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>It\u2019s time to go.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7cb2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>What do you mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c02d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>Time\u2019s up. It\u2019s over.&nbsp;<em>C\u2019est fini<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Owarimashita<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Se acab\u00f3<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Ze nigmar<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9176\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>Didn\u2019t you say that one of us had to reveal on whose account this occurred for it to be over?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"141d\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I exaggerated. I jested. I lied.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"da0b\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I protest. We all protest. (All nod their heads in agreement.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7383\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Carli<\/mark><br>At least allow us not to forget. I want to remember Sweetie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"91b2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>No can do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b9a2\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>I always presumed that \u201cIf it turned out that there was a God, the worst that you could say about him would be that basically he was an underachiever.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d2fc\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>I already told you that I wasn\u2019t God.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"63a2\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>We thought that you lied, that you jested, that you exaggerated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4eeb\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>But I hoped that you would change your mind, knowing very well that if there was a God, it would be merciless or indifferent. You claim not to be God or a god, yet you act like one, like God if there had been such an entity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4a34\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Addressing everyone) You have a few minutes to say your goodbyes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d189\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Woody<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>How thoughtful of you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"82d5\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>I need more than a few minutes. Please, at least give us more time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"cae8\"><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Hitchens<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><br>You all have ten minutes and not one second more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"44b6\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>I didn\u2019t expect more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6aa2\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Hugs Chaplin) I will always love you. Farewell!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4205\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Chaplin<\/mark><br>(Smiling) Thank you! Goodbye!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b4b7\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Kisses Dickinson\u2019s right hand) There are couplets and stanzas from your poems that will always ring true through someone\u2019s lips. Farewell!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2359\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Dickinson<\/mark><br>(Smiling) Thank you, Sweetie, and farewell to you too!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2ad4\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Shakes Nietzsche\u2019s right hand) If there is no eternal recurrence, at least your books are everlasting. Farewell!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c550\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nietzsche<\/mark><br>Thank you! Farewell!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bc68\"><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Jacques<\/mark><\/strong><br>(Hugs Roth) You are one of life\u2019s joys. I remember getting another writer\u2019s novel signed by him at a reading and asking him if he had read your latest novel. He had not but he knew you quite well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"541d\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Roth<\/mark><br>(Smiling) Poor writer! 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