Ginsberg is not amused.

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Now look, just because you think my mustache is "funny"...

[He completes this disdainful comment with dramatic air quotes.]

... doesn't mean I'm a funny guy. You know that. I'm actually pretty serious. I like the name you've chosen for me. It fits. Very existential. I'm not sure if anyone at SCDPCGC -- is that what we're calling it now? I can't keep track. Sounds like a shady law firm no matter how you organize the letters -- gets it.

[A pause.]

What do you mean, "gets what?" Gets it. It's a figure of speech. A phrase. Are you high right now?

[A longer pause.]

You're not high? That's a first. Not for you, I mean. For the people I spend my time around these days. Come to think of it, though, this is pretty weird. Did you get me high?

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[speechitize]

[ Speaking of high.

This is highly entertaining. Someone is laughing at you, Ginsberg. ]

If they did, then you've come prepared. Welcome to the tower of Babel.

[ There's a big, lazy, open-armed gesture that suggests he's pretty confident that he knows what he's talking about. ]

[just_displaced]

[Well, Ginsberg's glad someone knows what they're talking about, because he sure as hell doesn't.]

I don't think I'm high. Have you been here before? Where are we? And don't tell me the tower of Babel again, because we're not.

[speechitize]

What if I limited you to one question you get to ask?

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What if I asked more than one and you answered them anyway?

[speechitize]

Well that was a waste.

[just_displaced]

Look, even if I decided to go along with your ridiculous "one question" limit -- which I'm not -- that didn't count as a question.

[speechitize]

You need to relax. Take a deep breath and realize...

that it definitely did.

I just cannot handle that icon it makes me laugh every time

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So you're really not going to tell me where we are? Really?

Yes, good.

[speechitize]

I've got no idea, actually, but man are the people chatty.

You'll fit in just fine.

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The people're chatty? So you're saying I'm chatty, and that's why I'll fit in? I'm not chatty. I'm...

[A long pause.]

Garrulous.

[speechitize]

What?

Don't label yourself as anything just-- be. Can you do that?

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I don't know. What I know is I can't just be in some place like this and not ask questions.

[speechitize]

Nobody knows. You show up, yell at the person who brought you here for a while, see some other people and then go on like nothing's different.

You'll be selling Chevys and cereal before long.

[ Boredom. The sound of pure boredom in that statement. ]

[just_displaced]

Who're you selling Chevys and cereal to? Who's around to buy them? Are there even Chevys in this place? There's gotta be cereal...

[speechitize]

People. People drive around here. There's even people you didn't think were real-- Sherlock Holmes, Superman, Wonder Woman...

[ A pause. Deep. Contemplative. ]

You think Wonder Woman would buy pantyhose?

[just_displaced]

I don't think she wears them. Can you imagine fighting crime in pantyhose? Maybe if you wrote the right kind of pitch, though. You know, pantyhose that never get a run in them, even when you're kicking a bad guy in the face. Does she kick people in the face?

[speechitize]

She could kick me in the face anytime.

Nah. I think she's got a lasso or some shit?

[just_displaced]

I still don't think she wears them. It just doesn't make sense. I wouldn't, if I were a superhero.

[speechitize]

Do not ruin this mental image for me.

Do not.

[just_displaced]

I'm not the one ruining it. You're the one whose brain went there, man. I spoke in hypotheticals. You made it a reality.

[speechitize]

What do you mean went there? It practically sells itself.

Ugh. Now all I can see is her with a 'stache. Thanks.

[just_displaced]

Says the guy with the mountain man beard.

[speechitize]

That doesn't mean I want to see a woman with a hairy upper lip.

I'll have you know that I get a lot of compliments on this. Some guys just can't handle the responsibility.

[just_displaced]

Compliments from who? People who've been using drugs within the last hour don't count.

[speechitize]

Why do you get to call exclusions?

People, like I said.