{"id":34240,"date":"2026-03-01T00:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/?p=34240"},"modified":"2026-03-05T21:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:48:41","slug":"personal-memoirs-and-dynamic-thoughts-about-dynamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/volume-21-no-1-2026\/conference-proceedings-multiple-non-blind-peer-review-volume-21-no-1-2026\/personal-memoirs-and-dynamic-thoughts-about-dynamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Memoirs and Dynamic Thoughts About “Dynamo”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\t
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\u00cdvar Helgason 05.05.-1976 – Musical Theater actor, Singer, singing Teacher<\/p>\n

Personal memoirs on reading the dialogue \u201cDynamo\u201d with co-actor Villli Bragason at the public meeting \u201cHumour and Culture\u201d. Caf\u00e9teria of Amtsb\u00f3kasafni\u00f0 – Akureyri Municipal Library on the 19th of november 2025:<\/p>\n

It was quite fun to perform with Villi Bragason, the awkward situations of “Dynamo,”*<\/strong> written <\/em>by my dear friend, prof. Giorgio Baruchello, from his book <\/em>Thinking and Laughing. Apart from all the fun, me and Villi had (hopefully others too), it was interesting listening <\/em>to other speakers in the meeting. Discussing diverse approaches of humour in <\/em>connection to culture.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thanx Giorgio !!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Vilhj\u00e1lmur B. Bragason – Actor<\/p>\n

Performing Giorgio Baruchello\u00b4s short play “Dynamo” during the Round Table on Humour and Culture in Akureyri last November was a dynamic delight. Me and my fellow actor, \u00cdvar Helgason, had read through the piece several times together in rehearsal, but it was not until the actual performance that I felt its many layers truly come alive in my head. Performing it in Akureyri, on the opposite end of the world to where you would normally find a kangaroo, like the one at the heart of the play’s crime scene, underlined for me the vital importance of absurdity in any work of humour. And there is a plethora of pleasing absurdity in “Dynamo”‘s engaging theatre of ideas. I thoroughly enjoyed performing it and would very much hope to get further opportunities to perform Giorgio Baruchello’s texts for the stage.<\/em><\/p>\n

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*\u00a0<\/strong>Dynamo<\/strong>[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

One Act: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alice C. Ponyrev (carrying a water bottle and ad-hoc tools)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hella B. Lutwidge (carrying transparent plastic bags and ad-hoc tools)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A third person (chiefly in the backstage)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A goat (other domestic or farm animals can do as well)<\/em><\/p>\n

Officers Ponyrev and Lutwidge are hard at work on the verge of a road, close to More Square. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Alice:<\/p>\n

(friendly and fairly matter-of-fact all the time<\/em>) Would you believe it?<\/p>\n

Hella:<\/p>\n

(idem<\/em>) I know!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

A kangaroo!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Yep. And it\u2019s not like we\u2019re in Australia!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Of all beasts\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026 Poor beast.<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Yeah. Poor animal! All the way up here from down under and\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Yep. Driven over by a yellow bus! Just like that.<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

And scattered all over the place! (she sips water from her water bottle<\/em>)<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the concertina effect\u2026 (ironic<\/em>) More fun for us two!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Yeah! Think of going home and say: \u201cDarling, I\u2019ve had a grand old day! I\u2019ve been scraping and scrubbing teaspoonfuls of expired kangaroo all over the road. How\u2019ve you been? Any fun?\u201d<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(smiling<\/em>) Well, you could use that one in one of your stories.<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Aye, right. Because people care about real stories. Come on!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

I know, I know\u2026 But there\u2019s something\u2026 you know, moving<\/em>, about a splattered kangaroo. It makes you all soppy inside. Makes you think about the meaning of life.<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(serious<\/em>) \u2026 Jumping from one tragedy to another, till you reach the final one\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Yeah. That\u2019s right. It\u2019s like a metaphor, an aaaa\u2026 (trying to recall the word<\/em>) \u2026allegory of life!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(ironic<\/em>) As long as it\u2019s not another aaaa\u2026utobiography!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(pause, very slightly irritated<\/em>) Why? Don\u2019t you like them?<\/p>\n

A:
\nNo, I don\u2019t. There\u2019s no\u2026 imagination<\/em>\u2026 They\u2019re like\u2026 the bare minimum.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

What d\u2019you mean, \u201cthe bare minimum<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just\u2026 Writing only about the stuff you think you know<\/em>. Never stretching beyond<\/em>, never trying to imagine<\/em> other lives, other paths, or playing with imagery and paths that you\u2019ve fabricated, thrown together, and tinkered with\u2026 Or having fun with prototypes, symbols, personifications\u2026 You know, irony, ideas<\/em>. That too is great, and fun. Fiction that\u2019s not \u2018reality.\u2019<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

I see\u2026 You like imagination\u2026 Ideas\u2026 So you write about fiction<\/em>, not reality<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what all decent novelists and dramatists have been doing since Homer\u2019s day. Why wasting time on\u2026 autobiographies, just \u2019cos that\u2019s the neighbourhood you think you know<\/em>!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026 Interesting \u2026 Not enough imagination, you say\u2026<\/p>\n

Shouts from backstage: \u201cLa duchesse de Pompierdur, la Marquise de la Pipe! Allons-y!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(surprised<\/em>) What was that?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(calm<\/em>) A different play, (reassuringly<\/em>) don\u2019t worry\u2026 Imagination<\/em>\u2026 Really, don\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(a bit lost<\/em>) \u2026 Ok, ok\u2026 if you say so\u2026 So, well\u2026 So, imagination, autobiographies\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Right! \u2026 Also, in a sense, all<\/em> works are autobiographic anyhow, including technical manuals.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(puzzled<\/em>) What?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s bloody old Kant, or Gestalt psychology\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

In what sense?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

In the sense that the universe orbits around the mind that studies it and looks at it!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(even more puzzled<\/em>) \u2026 Explain, please. \u2019Cos you\u2019re making no<\/em> sense at all now!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

You see\u2026 (stops suddenly<\/em>) Here\u2019s the other half! YES!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026 Half of what?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

The library card! The one we found in the kangaroo\u2019s pouch! (pause<\/em>) \u2026 He\u2019s called Socrates<\/em>.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(glad<\/em>) Socrates? \u2026Ok. That\u2019s good\u2026 Now, see if you can find the rest of that income tax return form that\u2026 Socrates<\/em> was carrying around as well! I\u2019ve been looking for it everywhere\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Right\u2026 Well, as I was saying. All<\/em> works, all<\/em> books, are autobiographic, in a sense. Because any author, and every author, can only<\/em>, and I repeat, only<\/em> create what she creates by using only<\/em> her own ideas, images\u2026 figments. Everything that an author can write about, whatever it is that she\u2019s writing about, is stuff that she\u2019s processed inside her own<\/em> brain. Mental stuff\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026 Like what?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Gosh! What\u2019s not<\/em> in there? Everything<\/em>: Anticipations, beliefs, curiosities, desires, experiences, gut feelings, intimations, half-remembered jokes, memories, precise observations, questions, vestiges of very old studies, unforgotten umbrages, wild wonkeries… Et cetera<\/em>!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

That\u2019s quite a list!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

As I said, everything<\/em>\u2019s in there. In the head. In the spirit. And that\u2019s all you can write about.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

So, you mean\u2026 writers are always writing about themselves?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Yes and no\u2026 Not just that<\/em>\u2026 Writing is closer to confections than confessions.<\/p>\n

A voice is heard from backstage shouting this line from Puccini\u2019s<\/em> La Boh\u00e8me: \u201c<\/em>Ecco i giocattoli di Parpignol! \/ Ecco i giocattoli di Parpignol!.\u201d Hella looks at Alice with a perplexed face, but doesn\u2019t say anything, and doesn\u2019t stop the ongoing conversation between them.<\/em><\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026 So\u2026 You said\u2026 \u201cConfections<\/em>,\u201d right? Not \u201cconfessions\u201d \u2026 What d\u2019you mean?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Well, what an author does is like\u2026 I mean\u2026 You throw all the ingredients into a shaker and mix them, and try and produce a cocktail. If the cocktail is any good, that\u2019s a different issue.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(sarcastic<\/em>) Then all books should state, in the introduction: \u201cWelcome to my little bar. I hope you\u2019ll enjoy the evening!,\u201d the way there are warnings about cancer on cigarette packs!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(smiling<\/em>) Yes, I think they should! And they should add a warning about multiple authorship\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Ah? \u201cmultiple authorship<\/em>\u201d? I don\u2019t understand\u2026 (ironic<\/em>) What have you<\/em> been smoking?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(serious<\/em>) Each and every author is a plurality<\/em> of authors. Not only because, in their depths, all souls are\u2026 multiple, which is why one can laugh at<\/em> as well as with<\/em> some cruel comedian. But also and above all because nearly all authors come up with different narrators, characters, storylines, perspectives, colours. All based on stuff the authors have seen. That\u2019s actually the fun<\/em> of writing: Imagining, seeing, feeling the world from different angles<\/em>. Especially odd ones.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026 Sorry, but, you keep saying \u201cseeing\u201d\u2026 Then\u2026 What about science fiction, or fantasy. You know, funky stuff that nobody can have seen in reality? Like green monsters, you know?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all<\/em> been seen<\/em>! All of it! Under the author\u2019s silly pate! Inside the mind or soul\u2026 Imagination<\/em>, you know? Then you blend all the bits and pieces, and try to do something with them. That\u2019s how it works, basically. I know it sounds strange, but it\u2019s like architects putting together mathematical abstractions and real stones to make a building out of them. Or tailors\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(quietly<\/em>) \u2026Stitching together\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Yes! Stitching<\/em>! And using the imagination\u2026 I mean\u2026 There\u2019s no worst form of poverty than having no imagination. Think of that: Being completely and utterly devoid of imagination!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(ponders briefly<\/em>) Well, having no sense of humour is pretty tragic too. Or no self-irony\u2026 I recall an aunt who couldn\u2019t stand jokes about menstruations, especially if a man made them!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Fair point, no self-irony\u2026 (pause, serious<\/em>) Still, having no<\/em> imagination\u2026 It scares<\/em> me!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026 It can\u2019t be good, I guess\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

No, never! That\u2019s what makes people petty, narrow-minded, intolerant, cruel, nasty. It can be worse than ignorance. Much worse! It\u2019s why people start throwing around words like \u201ctruism,\u201d \u201cbromide,\u201d \u201cinappropriate,\u201d \u201cinauthentic,\u201d or \u201cthis-ism\u201d and \u201cthat-ism,\u201d making all sorts of illogical generalisations\u2014which just mean that those <\/em>people don\u2019t like what they<\/em> have read.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

But why do they do that? I mean, they ruin their own game, don\u2019t they? \u2026 Why doing it?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Mainly it\u2019s because they can\u2019t even begin to imagine what the world could look like from other perspectives, including yours. They have only one pair of shoes that fits them. Some people can\u2019t fathom how it is even possible to imagine imagining <\/em>what the world could look like from other perspectives. You see\u2026 HEY! (lifts a blob of something and inspects<\/em>) What\u2019s this?<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(intrigued<\/em>) \u2026 I think it\u2019s a pancreas\u2026 No, wait. It\u2019s a kidney!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(smiling<\/em>) Socrates\u2019 kidney! (pause<\/em>) Left or right?<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(shrugs<\/em>) No clue! (fetches the blob and stores it in a transparent plastic bag<\/em>) But, please, let\u2019s go back to your explanation. It\u2019s really interesting. You think that these negative people want you to just, like, see<\/em> things from inside one tradition, one perspective, and only one, right?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Basically. Or the few perspectives that they\u2019re familiar with. It\u2019s probably the main reason why some people can\u2019t really engage<\/em> with your material, and dismiss it as being \u201cjust like\u201d someone else or something else that they\u2019ve read a long time before and they vaguely recall\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Are these people\u2026 dumb? You know, just plain dumb?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Well, some of them are. What is it that they say in Italy? \u2026 \u201cThe mother of idiots is always pregnant;\u201d and that\u2019s a good one\u2026 But there are clever people who would simply and always want you to just preach and preach, like an apostle or a broken record. And repeat, you know, the party line\u2014their<\/em> party line! Squashing books and art into one<\/em> person, one<\/em> view. Squashing symbols into signs, polysemy into univocity\u2026 1984<\/em>\u2019s Newspeak, that\u2019s what they want!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Critics, you mean, right? \u2026 These people?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Yes, those for sure, but readers too\u2026 (she sips water from her water bottle<\/em>)<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Readers\u2026 Why? \u2026 I mean, how can readers be a problem?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Readers can be a real pain! Especially those who think that what they<\/em>\u2019ve understood\u2014the few bits<\/em> that they<\/em>\u2019ve been able to make some sense of\u2014is both right<\/em> and all<\/em> that there is to it.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Like it\u2019s tiny bits<\/em> of<\/em> tiny<\/em> bits<\/em> that they\u2019re stitching, combining, and think it\u2019s all<\/em> your work, eh?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Pretty much. Few, tiniest-tiny fragments, and they think they\u2019ve got it all. Ah! The irony!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(reflecting<\/em>) I guess\u2026 Still, you<\/em>, the author, have to stitch all<\/em> the\u2026 bits<\/em> together, right?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(enthusiastic<\/em>) Yes, and you can use a lot <\/em>of imagination doing that! Play<\/em> with those\u2026 bits<\/em>!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Totally unreal, then?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

A good part of it. Most, actually. Nearly everything. Reality is just a minor part, a starting point.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

So, there\u2019s some<\/em> reality in it, right?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Much less than most people think. You know, they<\/em> think that they<\/em>\u2019ve guessed this or that, but don\u2019t realise that they<\/em>\u2019re off track, or that they<\/em>\u2019re missing 99.9% of what the author meant\u2026<\/p>\n

The same voice from backstage shouts: \u201cLa duchesse de Pompierdur, la Marquise de la Pipe!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(less surprised<\/em>) \u2026 The other play?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Yes, precisely\u2026 Imagination<\/em>: Hence yet another possible facet of the world… Don\u2019t worry!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Yeah, yes\u2026 I get it now. So, no reality, fantasy, imagination\u2026 \u201cfiction,\u201d as you said\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Yep. Pretty much\u2026 And that\u2019s the fun: Fiction<\/em>! Besides, realism\u2019s overrated! Screw that!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(curious<\/em>) What d\u2019you mean, \u201crealism is overrated?\u201d<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(serious<\/em>) Come on! Reality is\u2026 dull! Who would care reading about two police officers like us, for instance, scraping the remains of a dead kangaroo!? Cleaning up after the late jumper!?<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(serious, puzzling things together<\/em>) You\u2019ve got a point there\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Or ordinary gangsters, nuns, talking bats, ex-cons, and run-of-the-mill porno stars!?<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(positive<\/em>) Yeah, yeah\u2026 I see what you mean.<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Exactly, when you can have stories about, say, plumbers, bookkeepers, or periodontists!?<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Right. Right\u2026 You\u2019re right\u2026 (smiling<\/em>) Yeah. No doubt about that!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

What would you<\/em> rather read about: Plumbers, or one of the many superheroes we\u2019ve got in our town, and currently looking for a job? Some silly-named porno star, or pa and ma having lazy sex in the morning? Or the two octogenarians who live upstairs a\u2019 your place \u2019n wake up frisky?<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(declamatory<\/em>) Plumbers, lazy sex, and octogenarians, (normal<\/em>) naturally! Something exotic, exciting! Obvious, no? I\u2019m no different than other people, who fantasise about how it would be like to live and\u2026 die in all kinds of ways\u2026 Not those they\u2019re living, and will probably die.<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Precisely my point\u2026 Not to mention the real distorters and effective co-authors\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(puzzled<\/em>) What? \u201cCo-authors\u201d? \u2026 Who are they?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Those who distort the story, fill the gaps, read between and behind the lines, coming up with all kinds of interpretations\u2026 All kinds of crazy shit you<\/em> hadn\u2019t even thought about. That\u2019s fun too!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Oh? \u2026 Ok, but\u2026 who are those?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

The readers, my dear, the readers! (she sips water from her water bottle<\/em>)<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Ah? Again?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Think about it. It\u2019s like putting a mirror in front of them. You, the author, make the mirror\u2026 You take the sand and all the reagents you need\u2026 You also make a nice frame\u2026 There you have it. The mirror\u2019s ready. That\u2019s your story, novel, poem, film\u2026 Whatever!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Right\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

\u2026 And then you stick it front of the readers, the audience, the viewers, and so on.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Uh \u2026 So what?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

The readers will see themselves<\/em>. Not you<\/em>. Even if they are going to think that it\u2019s all about you, the world that you share with them, or both things. What they\u2019re seeing, though, is themselves<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A naked man with a fez on his head and a goat on the leash appear on stage, walking slowly from the right to the left, and only briefly interrupting the two main characters\u2019 conversation, which will then continue as though the man and the goat weren\u2019t there.<\/em><\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

So\u2026 Readers read your stuff and\u2026 (ah-ah Erlebnis<\/em>) see their own reflection and think it\u2019s yours?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Yes! They <\/em>see their<\/em> frustrations, hopes, dreams, memories, inhibited desires, old readings, raw nerves, the few things they<\/em> recall from school, their<\/em> dogmas, fears, the films they<\/em>\u2019ve watched\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(more positive<\/em>) I see\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

\u2026Reflected in<\/em> yours and projected as<\/em> yours\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Hm\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

\u2026 The readers may even get offended and mad at you for things you didn\u2019t say or didn\u2019t mean. And that\u2019s both funny and scary: They\u2019re seeing themselves<\/em> and they think it\u2019s you<\/em>!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(a little more puzzled<\/em>) \u2026 But, why\u2019s that? Why?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Because, like it happens with the author, everything that they<\/em> are and have, exists in their<\/em> souls, their <\/em>minds, and they<\/em>\u2019re going to see it in the mirror, in one way or another, and think\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(excitedly, with conviction<\/em>) \u2026 That it\u2019s either you or the shared world that you\u2019re describing, right?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Right! And the more fantastic is the story\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026The more gaps they have to fill\u2026 And the more crazy interpretations they come up with?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(satisfied<\/em>) Yes! Of course! That\u2019s it. And that\u2019s the trick, you know?<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

Clever\u2026 (pause, cheeky<\/em>) And what\u2019s the trick to finish scraping the kangaroo off the road?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Hard work, my dear. Hard work! Elbow grease. Nothing else.<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(ironic<\/em>) There\u2019s nothing like an honest job well done\u2026<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(playfully<\/em>) You\u2019ve got it, sis!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

\u2026 Hey! \u2026 (glad<\/em>) The income tax form!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

Wow! \u2026 Great! That\u2019s very good\u2026 Let\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(interrupts, sombre<\/em>) Oh! \u2026 Wait a minute\u2026 (even more disappointed<\/em>) Would you believe it?<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s wrong?<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

This one belongs to a zebra. It\u2019s not the kangaroo\u2019s! \u2026 (upset, softly<\/em>) Bloody Socrates!<\/p>\n

A:<\/p>\n

(upset, loud<\/em>) Damnit! \u2026 Bloody Socrates!<\/p>\n

H:<\/p>\n

(upset, softly<\/em>) Damn\u2026 Bloody Socrates!<\/p>\n

Curtain<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Down under\u2019s down under\u2019s down\u2026 There\u2019s brightness at the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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