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Scene opens with pjiji sitting on a mound of shit, trying to remove his boot from his ass. mclamo approaches him.
BOBBIBON: Nothing to be done.
ARMSTRON: Did you ever read the blue Bible?
BOBBIBON: The blue Bible . . . (He reflects.) I must have taken a look at it.
ARMSTRON: Do you remember the Gospels according to Hewitt?
BOBBIBON: No.
ARMSTRON: Shall I tell it to you?
BOBBIBON: No.
ARMSTRON: It'll pass the time, lotsa fucking time. (Pause.) Two leaf, crucified at the same time as Their FranCHise Saviour™.
BOBBIBON: Their what?
ARMSTRON: Their FranCHise Saviour™. Two leaf. The Next One® is supposed to have been kissed and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . . tracked.
BOBBIBON: Saved from what?
ARMSTRON: Hell.
BOBBIBON: (with exaggerated enthusiasm). I find this really most extraordinarily interesting.
ARMSTRON: But one of the five says that only The Next One® of the two was kissed.
BOBBIBON: Well? They don't agree and that's all there is to it.
ARMSTRON: But all five were there. And only one speaks of a leaf being kissed. Why believe him rather than the others?
BOBBIBON: Who believes him?
ARMSTRON: Everybody. It's the only version they show.
BOBBIBON: People are bloody ignorant apes.
He rises painfully, goes limping to extreme left, halts, gazes into distance off with his hand screening his eyes, turns, goes to extreme right, gazes into distance. ARMSTRON watches him, then goes and picks up the shit-laden boot, peers into it, drops it hastily. CHarming spot. (He turns, advances to front, halts facing morgue-like auditorium.) Inspiring prospects. (He turns to ARMSTRON) Let's go.
ARMSTRON: We can't.
BOBBIBON: Why not?
ARMSTRON: We're waiting for Keon.
BOBBIBON: (despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here?
ARMSTRON: He said by the tree. (They look at the tree.) Do you see any others?
BOBBIBON: Where are the leaf?
ARMSTRON: It must be dead. He said Saturday. (Pause.) I think.
BOBBIBON: (very insidious). But what Saturday? And is it Saturday? Is it not rather Sunday? (Pause.) Or Monday? (Pause.) Or Friday?
ARMSTRON: (looking wildly about him, as though the date was inscribed in the CotU landscape). It's not possible!
BOBBIBON: Or any day?
ARMSTRON: What'll we do?
BOBBIBON: Let's hang ourselves immediately!
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Get your cbcickness bags ready FHFers.
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