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pudding-girl episode ZERO (wk 8) (continued) SEGMENT TITLE: "STUPIDITY" rhetorical verse in Shakespearean sonnet form (a 10-sonnet sequence)
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I DO NOT WANT TO WRITE "STUPIDITY."
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I'd rather dream Sagesse was in my bed,
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than writing out her own philosophy
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that all this week has commandeered my head.
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where string in ten dimensions oscillates --
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Sagesse's theory, which supplies her wings
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with lifting energy, illuminates ...
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A QUESTION from which ev'ry action flows.
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A JUDGEMENT: Is it "smart" ... OR have you cringed
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as all your beauty-senses take the blows ...
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The central feature of humanity.
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"THE VILLAIN" that demands Sagesse must die
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may not be evil-doer ... but our own
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embedded tendency to not ask why.
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Suspend our chat -- LET'S: FADE IN ON JEROME ...
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with SCHOOL-GIRL CALL-GIRL ... researching a book.
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Sagesse's brother -- he's a French news hawk
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whose talent is to fly straight for the hook ...
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of EVERYTHING that clatters on the globe.
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He's Sorbonne-educated ... with the poise
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that will not falter should that girl's earlobe ...
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He's French, in Tokyo. No, not disgraced ...
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... like he would be in TEXAS ... WHERE SAGESSE
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IS (NOT) a high school teacher who begins
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each class with a Miranda spiel to bless
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their silence, if they choose. Each one still wins ...
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until she can convince them to forget
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the STUPID need for one ... until they play
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within their-own drawn lines, their-own stretched net ...
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marked off in patterns suited to the gift
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endowed by God's sweet randomness each wields
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with his or her own styling, slow or swift ...
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It won't be long before she must resign.
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WHY RAISE THIS MADE-UP PART AGAIN, this week?
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SAGESSE is not in Texas. Heaven knows.
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I MUST CONFESS: some network honcho-geek
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says "Austin High School French Teach" curls his toes.
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BUT she would never take that job, I know.
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She'd have to be the Governor... And quick!
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Like Dubya Bush -- an instant leader. WHOA! ...
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She'd speak in French ... and Texans would not care.
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Well, not the men, because her whole campaign
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would be conducted in the nude. Her bare- ...
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inspiring voters' dreams of many kinds.
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BUT BACK IN TOKYO JEROME's contained
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his youthful lusts (and lust for youths) and WRITES
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HIS COLUMN for La Monde... in which he's feigned
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some clarity of vision on the fights ...
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He's never understood what's "wrong" with her --
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but somehow, "by some fluke," she is a star.
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His column is hard-edged, but still a blur.
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as governor of Texas -- Sorry folks...
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This made-up part is surely not condoned
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by poop-head modernists... But Texas jokes ...
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(MAKE UP THIS LINE yourself... Just end with "FUN") {smile}.
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I hear you thinking, she's a Democrat.
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But no, Sagesse would never join that bunch.
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Not any bunch, of course, they're all "old hat."
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SAGESSE'S ACTRESS FAXES: "Let's do lunch ...
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I do not understand how this will work.
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You told me late one night... but it's a fog.
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Our clothes were off, and you played Captain Kirk ...
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And as I was transported, you explained
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postmodernism's forest and the trees.
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But there were many six-packs we had drained ...
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my character, or I will lose my mind.
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I email her "OK." BACK TO SAGESSE
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who for her run for governor conceived
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a new-named party that you'll never guess ...
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and I can't tell you ... 'cause it can't be weaved ...
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My "secretary" says it's not much bent
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to let the second syllable ... No way!
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"Yes way," she says. OK. Dumb argument.
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"You're right," she says. (Why did she waste my time?)
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In any case, I've caused my own defeat.
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The only way to make her "Party" chime ...
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Her party's name? Anti-Stupidity
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The purist says, you got the accent wrong.
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"STUPIDITY," I'm sure you're thinking now.
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Amen to that ... it's time to hit the gong.
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Then later you can let your lights endow ...
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of formal verse -- of where the accents fall.
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One way you can distinguish "the elite"
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-- our priv'leged class .. is they don't miss at all ...
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One "mispronunciation" will condemn
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them to the class of "other." They can't fake
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perfection ... High class parents. Not a sim.
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If she gets accents wrong, folks think it's hot.
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BESIDE THE FERRIS WHEEL SAGESSE WRITES down
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some private notes to keep the border clear
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between the point and pointlessness. THE NOUN
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STUPIDITY. She counters. Her Career.
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Though REPETITION does not equal dumb --
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ASSUME it does. ASK "WHY?" WHAT REASON heats
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the ever cycling engine that we hum ...
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on ev'ry stroke -- yet, still, we ride along
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and hold the hammer down... and drown the spark
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of our imagination. BANG THAT GONG ...
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his column back to Paris ... where she sits.
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PHILOSOPHY IS GOOD ... but not too much.
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This is enough to ponder for tonight.
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Although 500 pages might not touch
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all aspects of STUPIDITY -- her fight ...
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that's short enough to hold within one span
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of reas'nable reflection -- keep you warm
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instead of cold -- when calculating "man."
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could be condensed to "NO STUPIDITY."
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But clarifying what that means in "duels"
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of rhetoric with agents who don't see ...
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of "HOW." ... Her notes are "WHY." ... These are the hints.
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