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SCENE 12 fate: "Just one question: Are you one of them? Is any one in this room a member of the Knights Mare?" Ishmael: "Stomp once if anyone is!" Monkey-General looks up at the brains hanging from the ceiling. fate: "Stomp twice if anyone here is guilty." Ishmael: "Stomp three times if you have life insurance." Monkey-General stomps three. The brains shake. howweird lays his head down on the ground. bystander: "Don't stomp if you think this all is an illusion." The horse is too weak to even move one muscle. Huh, I don't believe it. Believe it. Never. Twitch your mane if you believe in fairies. Ishmael thinks this will make a helluva movie. A fairy emerges from a twinkle in howweird's eye. Breathe in if you believe in life. howweird still breathes. Breathe out if you believe in duality. howweird still breathes. Hold your breath if you think illusion is dead. fate is nonplussed. Stop breathing if you don't care. howweird breathes slowly and steadily. Stop breathing if you want Ishmael dead. howweird breathes and breathes and breathes. Ishmael pets howweird. howweird settles into a deep but steady sleep. bystander coughs:"Uh, excuse me." The brains shimmy in the breezes of howweird's breath. Ishmael looks at bystander. fate looks up from her fixation on the felled horse: "Yes?" Monkey-General is now hanging from the smallest brain. Ishmael looks up at the monkey. bystander walks up to the 'sleeping' horse, bends down, and places his head against howweird. fate: "I guess we're just going to have to let this sleeping horse lie for the moment. Unless anyone has an anecdote?" bystander snarls at fate. Monkey-General: "He's been lying all along." bystander [to howweird]: "You OK?" Ishmael giggles nervously. fate frowns. howweird begins snoring loudly.
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