25/11/08
To re-cap
Dr. Nostrum and Hutchback have been putting the world to rights whilst picnicking in a public park - one of the rare times that Hutchback sees the sun. Don't worry, he's chained to a stake at all times. After much deep thinking - see the rest of the "All Talk" series. Hutchback and Dr. Nostrum are briefly distracted...
Hutchback
Yeah, (beat) ooh look, there's some Greyhounds.
Dr. Nostrum
Do you think she's blind, that girl?
Hutchback
She's certainly playing football like she's blind.
Dr. Nostrum
No, no, look, that one wandering around there.
Hutchback
Which one wandering around where?
Dr. Nostrum
That one wandering around like she's blind, see? Look, she's got her arms out, see?
Hutchback
No
Dr. Nostrum
Look, look! Right here! She's got her eyes shut. Why has she got her eyes shut?
Hutchback (dryly)
Because it's a game.
Dr. Nostrum
To pretend you're blind?
Hutchback
It's the pretending you're blind game. It helps for later life, when you do go blind.
Dr. Nostrum
Yeah.
Hutchback
Actually, that would be quite, er, quite a good thing to do, you know, if someone just wants to cover every base – walk around for an hour every day with your eyes shut just in case you go blind.
(pause)
Dr. Nostrum
I used to go running with my eyes crossed in case I went cross-eyed. Well, no, I used to try and do that thing; do you remember Castenada?
Hutchback (preparing himself for the ridiculous)
Yes.
Dr. Nostrum
Somewhere in Castenada it said, you know, if, if you walk round all day with your eyes crossed you start to see the other world.
Hutchback
The, the most thoroughly de-bunked writer of our age, I think. Sadly.
Dr. Nostrum
But not by me
Hutchback
Not by you, but de-bunked by every, er, ethno, er, ethnographer, er...
Dr. Nostrum
Ethnographer?
Hutchback
Ethnographer, yes.
Dr. Nostrum
Well, what is Eth?
Hutchback
Ethnography? It's a science!
Dr. Nostrum
Ethnos? Of Ethnos'?
Hutchback
It's a science of studying human social behaviour.
Dr. Nostrum
Oh, Ok.
Hutchback
No, no, Cause he just, he just made it all up.
Dr. Nostrum
Ethnos'. I suppose so. He did? You think he made it all up?
Hutchback
Yeah, of course he did. Well, he didn't make up the stories cos they were all told to him by these Shaman.
Dr. Nostrum
Oh! I see, so the idea that he was actually on a process of anything?
Hutchback
Yeah
Dr. Nostrum
So he was just out there making...
Hutchback
He's been de-bunked.
Dr. Nostrum
...a bit of...
Hutchback
He's been seriously de-bunked.
Dr. Nostrum
...a bit of money.
Hutchback
Yeah, he made a lot of money. They were good books.
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