(I Like The Actors Who Appear, Etc.)

By Daniel Jackson, adapted from Richard Foreman.

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Here's the story: I lead you into the next room, and pull back the curtains on the window.  You look through the window and see I want to demonstrate my ability to tell time automatically. Mentally.  I'll write the time on this piece of paper.

Eight -- thirty four

Now I seal this paper in this envelope. I'll attach this envelope to the wall.  Now -- YOU will go and take this piece of paper out of the envelope.

It says eight thirty four.  That doesn't agree with the clock.

Maybe the clock is wrong.

Can I sit?

Of course. But I don't think it stops with sitting. Or, being seated.

You're correct.

I shall sit down to my dinner, and you, of all people . . .

Is it warm out?

No --

Are overcoats being --?

No. NO! It's quite cool. It's the anticipation of a coming holiday. People's faces, flushed with excitement.

Where are they? What's the name of the city?

It has a certain evocative presence. Invading even this room… Now it's disappeared completely.

It's subjective.

Yes.

This is for you.

What did you buy?

I wouldn’t eat it.

Shoes!

Did you have a need for new shoes?

Yes… I did.  I was beginning to be depleted in my stock of shoes

I bought shoes.

Why?

I made it special.

Ah. They’re a kind of poison?

Well -- not poison…

What?

A kind of emotional poison!

I'd better see what effect it has on me.

I wouldn't eat it.

Try an alternative.

Eat it and find out.

You will not believe me when I tell you the truth about myself: the truth about myself is that I have obtained supreme knowledge, and this knowledge radiates from me, to fill each of you in my presence. This is not wrong or undesirable.

I knew I'd be caught and you'd be caught flipped over a table that stood in my way.

I pivot, and a new plot of ground, a new territory, even though urban in the extreme, was mine for all kinds of floral expansion.

Did I already empty this bottle to this significant degree? Oh my god --

What?

I must be under a rather terrific influence

Are you drunk?

Is this for me?

Of course!

Well, I'll save it

Be careful. In time, its contents change.

For the better?

Of course. 

I must be partly responsible.

Not yet.

When does it change?

Let's give it some time

I have nothing but time

I'm in a similar category of course.