Ginsberg is not amused.

[just_displaced]

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]

Why do you get to call exclusions?

People, like I said.

[just_displaced]

You got to say I only got to ask one question. I get to say that people who're high aren't great judges of style. It's a fair trade.

[speechitize]

I'm not even going to bring up the drafting knife to tarnish your credentials.

Fine. One of the girls at the office said it looked distinguished. Like Hemingway.

[just_displaced]

If you ask me, that just improves my credentials. I'm putting it on my resumé.

You know what happened to Hemingway, right?

[speechitize]

Like the bigwigs are ever going to let you leave.

Sure, but I don't think she did.

[just_displaced]

Hey, they can't make me stay anywhere I don't want to.

I still wouldn't take the Hemingway thing as a compliment.

[speechitize]

You're not going anywhere.

[ Calling out your bullshit, Ginsberg. ...No, really, you're not going anywhere, right? ]

I'm not going to off myself, but I wouldn't mind the lifestyle.

[just_displaced]

I'm not going anywhere for now.

[That's totally bullshit, too. He's not going anywhere.]

Drunk all the time, writing bullshit that people find inexplicably brilliant? Doesn't sound much different from what we already do, right?

[speechitize]

Best of the best at SCDP-- whatever it's called now

I'm pretty sure Hemingway got more sun.

[just_displaced]

Just pick some random letters -- can't be worse than it already is.

[A shrug.]

Yeah, probably, but you'd probably just get sunburned, anyway.

[speechitize]

ZPXYGDR. See I think that's actually a little better.

Say one positive thing and try not to hurt yourself.

[just_displaced]

Hey, I can say positive things. For example...

[He has to really think about this.]

If I worked for an agency called ZPX... QW... Whatever, I'd be proud of it. I'd put it on all my business cards. It is better. You should pitch it to the partners.

[speechitize]

ZPXYGDR. You can't forget the G and the R. That's us.

[ Obviously. ]

[just_displaced]

You really think there's ever gonna be an agency that has us as partners?

[speechitize]

There's two dead guys in the current title.

I think we've got a shot.

[just_displaced]

I guess I should probably be glad that you think of us as better than dead guys. That's a pretty low standard.

[speechitize]

Of course we are.

Speaking of which, they've got dead people here too.

[just_displaced]

You mean they've just got dead bodies lying around? That's got to be a major health code violation.

[speechitize]

I mean as in the living sense. They've died but they're alive here-- talking, typing, screwing, mingling...

[just_displaced]

So they're zombies.

[speechitize]

No.

...

Well, maybe.

[just_displaced]

Yeah, see, I knew this place was messed up. I knew it. Can we just go home now? Go to work or something?

[speechitize]

No way. Think of all the people you could meet.

The possibilities are literally endless.

[just_displaced]

I don't know if I want to meet them. I think I know enough people.

[speechitize]

Well, you're here. Might as well make the most of it-- what do you want to do?

Literally. Anything.