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Buck: Wasn´t there a Desmond in the book somewhere? Yes, a barrow Desmond has.

Sissy: Desmond has a barrow in the market place.

Luck: Molly is the singer in a band.

Sissy: Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on bra.

Luck: Bra?

Sissy: Yep. Burning of the midnight bra.

 

A thunder backstage. Enter A-Kill-Ease (limping)

A-Kill-Ease: Yes, an arrow he has. And I, I have a narrow escape. He just hits my heel, see. It will soon heal. Exits (limping).

                          

Enter Penny

Penny: Who was that?

Sissy: Just someone from that other book. Don´t worry about it.

Penny: I was just thinking about Marion. How is she doing? And Mary?

Sissy: You know Marion and Robbing Hood got married.

Luck: Molly stays at home and does her pretty face. Her city face.

Penny: As we are criss-crossing the city. The pocketa-pocketa secret life of Walter Mitty city.

Sissy: Zigzagging every nitty gritty bit of it.

Luck: The witty city.

 

Enter mystery lady (wearing colourful apron)

Luck (watches her a sec, then continues): Now I remember. Not Desmond. Dormond. A pub in Dub. Everything in Double Inn is happening twice.

Sissy: Encore!

Luck: Every thing. In Double Inn. Is happening. Twice.

Penny: Have you read the book twice?

Luck: No.

Penny: Once?

Luck: Yes, of course. At least the beginning. (reciting) Stately, plump Buck Mulligan.

Stately? Is he stately or is he doing something in a stately way? Adjective or adverb? Still pondering that one. And that´s how far I´ve got.

And who´s who in the book? Keep getting them mixed up. Is the hero Molly or Buck?

Apron lady (arms akimbo): It´s not Buck and it´s not Bucket, It´s Bookay!

Luck: Oh, sorry. I stand corrected. Mollified.

Apron lady (with a salute to the gallery): Ahoy there, brisk sailors! Exits.


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