1. Exterminator.Copy !req
2. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
3. You want I should spit right in your face?Copy !req
4. You want, hmm?
You want? You want?Copy !req
5. I ran out.Copy !req
6. You ran out?
Oh, that's nice.Copy !req
7. You ran out.
It's impossible you run out!Copy !req
8. What'd you do, eat the stuff?Copy !req
9. The Chink shortchanged me.Copy !req
10. No “ got.” Come “FhdayCopy !req
11. It's funny.
It's actual very funny what you just said.Copy !req
12. Ran out.Copy !req
13. They can either paint it, or draw it, or write
it down and then pass it on to somebody.Copy !req
14. They read what you're saying,
and then they reexperience.Copy !req
15. That's the only connection
you have with that, man.Copy !req
16. So you can't rewrite...Copy !req
17. 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie...Copy !req
18. and you betray your own thoughts.Copy !req
19. To rethink the flow and the rhythm
and the tumbling out of the words...Copy !req
20. is a betrayal.Copy !req
21. And it's a sin, Martin.
It's a sin.Copy !req
22. I don't accept your, uh...Copy !req
23. Catholic interpretation
of my compulsive, uh...Copy !req
24. necessity to rewrite
every single word at least 100 times.Copy !req
25. Guilt is -Thanks.
Guilt is the key, not sin.Copy !req
26. Guilt re not writing
the best that I can.Copy !req
27. Guilt re not, uh, considering everything
from every possible angle.Copy !req
28. Balancing everything.Copy !req
29. Well, how about guilt
re censoring your best thoughts?Copy !req
30. Your most honest,
primitive, real thoughts...Copy !req
31. because that's what your laborious
rewriting amounts to, Martin.Copy !req
32. Is rewriting really censorship, Bill?Copy !req
33. Because I'm completely fucked if it is.Copy !req
34. Exterminate all rational thought.Copy !req
35. That is the conclusion I have come to.Copy !req
36. What is the man talking about?
I'm being serious.Copy !req
37. So is he.Copy !req
38. So how is the extermination business
going there, Bill?Copy !req
39. Somebody's stealing my roach powder.
Somebody's got it in for me.Copy !req
40. Hmm. Well, Bill,
maybe you should take it as a sign.Copy !req
41. Maybe you ought to try your hand
at writing pornography.Copy !req
42. Yeah, a novel a week at 120 bucks.
It's serious money.Copy !req
43. I can connect you with the guy.Copy !req
44. We're thinking of
collaborating on one ourselves.Copy !req
45. I gave up writing when I was 10.Copy !req
46. - Too dangerous.
- Only if someone reads what you write.Copy !req
47. So far we haven't had that problem.Copy !req
48. I've found my profession.
I'm an exterminator.Copy !req
49. Of course, Bill. That's just what the world needs -
more literate exterminators.Copy !req
50. Give me a cigarette.Copy !req
51. Of course, then, you know...Copy !req
52. you're gonna have trouble
if you can't keep track of your roach powder.Copy !req
53. Wait a minute.
Do you boys know something about this?Copy !req
54. We don't exactly know anything.Copy !req
55. No, but we suspect
it's a domestic problem.Copy !req
56. ' JV'
, [fCopy !req
57. - My God, what are you doing?
- You weren't supposed to see this.Copy !req
58. Well, now that I'm seeing it, what is it?Copy !req
59. I'm shooting up your bug powder.Copy !req
60. You might like to try it yourself.Copy !req
61. Or you might not.Copy !req
62. Iran out in the middle of a job.Copy !req
63. You gotta stop using the stuffijoan.Copy !req
64. They ration it out like snakebite serum.Copy !req
65. Well, just do what everybody else does -Copy !req
66. cut it with baby laxative.Copy !req
67. The roaches will
shit themselves to death.Copy !req
68. It's the best job I ever had.Copy !req
69. If I run out again, I'm finished.Copy !req
70. Hmm.Copy !req
71. It's, um -Copy !req
72. It's a very literary high.Copy !req
73. Very literary.Copy !req
74. Is that why Hank and Martin
know all about it?Copy !req
75. No, we just, uh -Copy !req
76. We all just tried it together -
spur of the moment thing.Copy !req
77. They didn't like it, I did.Copy !req
78. What do you mean,
it's a literary high?Copy !req
79. It's a Kafka high.Copy !req
80. You feel like a bug.Copy !req
81. Try some.Copy !req
82. Well, I don't know.Copy !req
83. I don't know.Copy !req
84. - I think our metabolisms are very different.
- Whose?Copy !req
85. Yours and Kafka'?Copy !req
86. I thought you were finished
with doing weird stuff.Copy !req
87. I thought I was, too,
but I guess I'm not.Copy !req
88. Personally...Copy !req
89. I prefer a pyrethrum job to a fluoride.Copy !req
90. With the pyrethrum...Copy !req
91. you kill the roaches right there
in front of God and the client...Copy !req
92. whereas this starch and fluoride -Copy !req
93. leave it around,
the roaches eat it...Copy !req
94. come back a few days later,
they're running around fat as hogs.Copy !req
95. And there it is, Bill.
You want to put on some weight...Copy !req
96. you gotta switch
from that yellow powder diet of yours...Copy !req
97. to some of this good
fluoride stuff right here.Copy !req
98. Sure works for the Chink.
He's healthy enough.Copy !req
99. You see him scarf that poison down?Copy !req
100. He doesn't really eat it.Copy !req
101. It's sleight of hand.Copy !req
102. The hell he doesn't. Been breathing in
the powder so long, it just makes him laugh.Copy !req
103. - Just like them roaches.Copy !req
104. William Lee.Copy !req
105. - What is this?
- He's Hauser. I'm O'Brien.Copy !req
106. City Narcotics.
We're gonna take you downtown, Bill.Copy !req
107. Little matter of possession
of a dangerous substance.Copy !req
108. You've got quite a record, Bill.Copy !req
109. A lot of drugs poured down the old vein.Copy !req
110. I was a troubled person then.
I'm married now.Copy !req
111. Straight. Got a good job.Copy !req
112. That's good, Bill.
That's nice.Copy !req
113. - What's this, then?
- That's my job.Copy !req
114. I use it to kill bugs.Copy !req
115. - He says it kills bugs.
- He could be right.Copy !req
116. - I'd like to see it.
- Me, too.Copy !req
117. - I'd like to see it, too.
- Well, gee.Copy !req
118. I'd like to demonstrate, but I already
got rid of that last case of crabs I had.Copy !req
119. Very funny, Bill.Copy !req
120. But, you know...Copy !req
121. I think we got a bug
around here somewhere.Copy !req
122. You're right.Copy !req
123. Let's see if that yellow stuff will kill it.Copy !req
124. We'll be back later
to see how it worked out, kiddo.Copy !req
125. Yeah.Copy !req
126. Break a leg.Copy !req
127. - William Lee?Copy !req
128. I have arranged all this
just to have a moment alone with you.Copy !req
129. I am your case officer.Copy !req
130. - Uh, my what?
- Case officer.Copy !req
131. You are my agent.Copy !req
132. I, in turn, report to your controller.Copy !req
133. Come, come, Mr. Lee.
You don't have to play dumb with me.Copy !req
134. Oh. No. Well...Copy !req
135. that would be foolish, wouldn't it?Copy !req
136. It would. Say, Bill...Copy !req
137. do you think you could rub
some of this powder on my lips?Copy !req
138. Uh, yeah.Copy !req
139. Sure.Copy !req
140. Well, now.Copy !req
141. As you might have expected...Copy !req
142. I have instructions
for you from Control.Copy !req
143. It's about the little woman.Copy !req
144. - The what?
- The little woman.Copy !req
145. Your little woman.Copy !req
146. - Your wife.
- Tell me.Copy !req
147. Your wife is not really your wife.Copy !req
148. She is an agent of lnterzone Incorporated.Copy !req
149. You must kill her.Copy !req
150. Killjoan Lee.Copy !req
151. It must be done soon -
this week.Copy !req
152. And it must be done real tasty.Copy !req
153. Interzone Incorporated?Copy !req
154. An organization based in Interzone...Copy !req
155. a notorious free port
on the North African coast.Copy !req
156. A haven for
the mongrel scum of the Earth...Copy !req
157. an engorged parasite
on the underbelly of the West.Copy !req
158. Ah, I can't see it.Copy !req
159. Why would a classy
American woman likejoan...Copy !req
160. ever want to work for a two-bit outfit
like lnterzone Incorporated?Copy !req
161. But who saysjoan Lee is really a woman?Copy !req
162. In fact, who says she's human at all?Copy !req
163. - What do you mean by that?
- I can say no more.Copy !req
164. Hey, where you going?Copy !req
165. Don't do it. Don't do it.
There'll be hell to pay.Copy !req
166. We've been made.
We gotta get out of town.Copy !req
167. Wait a minute.Copy !req
168. - What's going on?
- I got busted for bug powder.Copy !req
169. I started hallucinating behind the stuff.Copy !req
170. God knows what I really said
to those two flatfeet.Copy !req
171. I'm not even sure
how I got out of there.Copy !req
172. Did you bring back
tomorrow's bug powder?Copy !req
173. Did you, Bill?
Did you?Copy !req
174. My God, joan.
You're acting like a full-fledged junkie.Copy !req
175. And it's bug powder,
for Christ's sake!Copy !req
176. Oh.Copy !req
177. I do have a little bit of a habit, yes, hon.Copy !req
178. You ought to at least give me
a few marks for originality.Copy !req
179. How did you know
it just wouldn't kill you?Copy !req
180. I don't know, Bill.Copy !req
181. I felt drawn to it.Copy !req
182. You know?Copy !req
183. Like you feel drawn... to an old lover.Copy !req
184. Say, Bill...Copy !req
185. could you rub
some of this powder on my lips?Copy !req
186. Could you, Bill?Copy !req
187. Please?Copy !req
188. Hey!Copy !req
189. Bill.Copy !req
190. Hey, where were you this morning?Copy !req
191. We missed you at the Automat.Copy !req
192. I, uh, got in a bit ofajam.Copy !req
193. I misplaced the gear,
in a manner of speaking.Copy !req
194. Yeah.
We heard about it.Copy !req
195. We saw you go off with the heat, in fact.Copy !req
196. They won't give it back to Cohen.Copy !req
197. It's evidence, they say.Copy !req
198. Yeah. It's an embarrassment, yes.Copy !req
199. Is that why you tried to lift mine?Copy !req
200. That's unkind, Edward.Copy !req
201. “Lift” is unkind.Copy !req
202. I'm doing a job for a friend.Copy !req
203. The centipedes, Edward.
The centipedes are getting downright arrogant.Copy !req
204. They're starting to attack his children.Copy !req
205. Take it from me, Bill.Copy !req
206. You're not the first one
to develop a bug powder problem.Copy !req
207. See this man.Copy !req
208. He'll help ya.Copy !req
209. “Dr. A. Benway...Copy !req
210. General Practitioner.”Copy !req
211. Bug Powder?Copy !req
212. - You mean, uh, pyrethrum?
- Yes.Copy !req
213. Hmm. I get a lot of you folks
in the extermination trade.Copy !req
214. You better help this friend of yours
get off the yellow stuff.Copy !req
215. - It'll kill him.
- How do I get him to kick?Copy !req
216. - Kick?
- H-How do I get him off it?Copy !req
217. Oh.Copy !req
218. Mix it with this.Copy !req
219. Gradually increase the percentage of black
without telling your friend...Copy !req
220. and he'll lose his taste
for the bug powder soon enough.Copy !req
221. What is it?
What does it do?Copy !req
222. Oh, it's all natural.
It's made from, uh...Copy !req
223. aquatic Brazilian centipede
or some such outlandish thing.Copy !req
224. It shuts down the brain's
response to the bug powder. That's all.Copy !req
225. The powder becomes
irrelevant to the addict...Copy !req
226. and the addict then
ceases to be addicted.Copy !req
227. Side effects?Copy !req
228. Nothing that will surprise the addict.Copy !req
229. But, uh, before I -
before I do your cure...Copy !req
230. I've gotta score some bug powder.Copy !req
231. Score?Copy !req
232. You're not trying to... pull a fast one
on the old doctor, are you?Copy !req
233. I came here for help.Copy !req
234. Of course you did.Copy !req
235. Phew!Copy !req
236. My God.Copy !req
237. It smells like a... tainted cheese.Copy !req
238. You'll see how elegantly this works.Copy !req
239. The black will disappear completely.Copy !req
240. And there'll be no smell,
no discoloration.Copy !req
241. It's like an agent -Copy !req
242. an agent who's come to believe
his own cover story...Copy !req
243. but who's in there, hiding...Copy !req
244. in a larval state...Copy !req
245. just waiting
for the proper moment to hatch out.Copy !req
246. Extra, extra! Read all about it!Copy !req
247. Thirty-nine cents, just for today! Special.Copy !req
248. Thirty-nine cents.
Fresh cabbage.Copy !req
249. Centipedes.Copy !req
250. “Followers of obsolete,
unthinkable trades...Copy !req
251. “doodling in Etruscan...Copy !req
252. “addicts of drugs not yet synthesized...Copy !req
253. - “black marketeers of World War Ill...Copy !req
254. “Excisors of telepathic sensitivity...Copy !req
255. - “osteopaths of the spirit...Copy !req
256. “investigators...Copy !req
257. - “of inflections denounced . .Copy !req
258. - “by bland, paranoid chess players...Copy !req
259. “Servers of
fragmentary warrants taken down...Copy !req
260. “in hebephrenic shorthand...Copy !req
261. “charging unspeakable
mutilations of the spirit...Copy !req
262. officials of unconstituted
police states, broke -”Copy !req
263. - Hi, Bill.Copy !req
264. Say, why don't you and ljoin them?Copy !req
265. Hank and I were just bored.
It wasn't serious.Copy !req
266. I didn't take it seriously.Copy !req
267. Where is Hank?Copy !req
268. He got embarrassed and left.Copy !req
269. Not before he came, I hope.Copy !req
270. Hank's on junk.
He doesn't come.Copy !req
271. Not before you came, I hope.Copy !req
272. I'm on bug powder.
I don't need to come.Copy !req
273. - “Olfic/a/s of unconst/tuted police states...Copy !req
274. “brokers of
exquisite dreams and nostalgias...Copy !req
275. “tested on the sensitized
cells of junk sickness...Copy !req
276. “and bartered for
raw materials of the will...Copy !req
277. “drinkers of the Heavy Fluid...Copy !req
278. sealed in translucent amber of dreams. ”Copy !req
279. I guess it's about time
for our William Tell routine.Copy !req
280. Oh, God.Copy !req
281. Oh, God.Copy !req
282. Joan.Copy !req
283. Joan.Copy !req
284. Oh, yuan.Copy !req
285. Are you a faggot?Copy !req
286. Not by nature, no.Copy !req
287. I'm not.Copy !req
288. I wouldn't say... faggot.Copy !req
289. No.Copy !req
290. However, circumstances have forced me
to consider the possibility that -Copy !req
291. I'd like you to meet a friend of mine.Copy !req
292. He specializes in sexual ambivalence.Copy !req
293. Sexual ambulance, did you say?Copy !req
294. My God.Copy !req
295. He's called Mugwump.Copy !req
296. No point in feigning surprise.Copy !req
297. You knew we would be
getting in touch with you.Copy !req
298. Why else would you come
to a waterfront dive like this?Copy !req
299. Why else?Copy !req
300. I suggest a Clark Nova portable.Copy !req
301. It has mythic resonance.Copy !req
302. Clark Nova. A typewriter?
You suggest it for what?Copy !req
303. For your report
from lnterzone, of course.Copy !req
304. Handwriting is not
considered professional.Copy !req
305. lnterzone.Copy !req
306. My report.Copy !req
307. And don't leave out
any of the tasty details -Copy !req
308. the small red hole in the forehead...Copy !req
309. I Moaning]
or...Copy !req
310. the look of astonishment on her face.Copy !req
311. Listen to me.
You're just gonna have to leave town...Copy !req
312. and lnterzone is the only place...Copy !req
313. that'll have a shady character
like you at such short notice.Copy !req
314. Take this.Copy !req
315. Take what?
What is that?Copy !req
316. Your ticket to lnterzone.Copy !req
317. Tourist class, I'm afraid...Copy !req
318. but what can you expect these days?Copy !req
319. We'll contact you there.Copy !req
320. Hmm. It's commie trash.Copy !req
321. And it's been fired very recently.Copy !req
322. You use it in a holdup?Copy !req
323. I want that-that typewriter in the window.
I want the portable.Copy !req
324. This plus...Copy !req
325. $8.00.Copy !req
326. You got any ammo to go with it?Copy !req
327. These'll cover the state tax.Copy !req
328. - Bill.
- Martin.Copy !req
329. Listen, Bill, I told the police
it was a drunken accident, that I saw it.Copy !req
330. So at least that's on the record.
They're after you though.Copy !req
331. They're saying that -
that you escaped from custody...Copy !req
332. and murdered your wife,
and-and they want you.Copy !req
333. I'd better-
I'd better lie low till my ship sails.Copy !req
334. - You booked passage somewhere already?
- Sure. Look.Copy !req
335. Got my ticket.Copy !req
336. Put this away,
for God's sake, Bill.Copy !req
337. - I'll send you a report.
- You'll send me a report?Copy !req
338. Well, I'll send you
a copy of the report.Copy !req
339. Are you gonna be all right?Copy !req
340. I hear lnterzone's really nice
this time of year.Copy !req
341. He woke up in bed...Copy !req
342. to find himself wedged...Copy !req
343. between a Dutch transvestite...Copy !req
344. and six Arab men.Copy !req
345. Clark Nova.Copy !req
346. Very nice for writing reports.Copy !req
347. I use a Krups Dominator myself.Copy !req
348. Company policy.Copy !req
349. You're American, correct?Copy !req
350. You know Dr. Benway?Copy !req
351. I am interested in selling...Copy !req
352. a large stash of the black meat.Copy !req
353. Verstehen Sie?Copy !req
354. The sun-dried, powdered black meat...Copy !req
355. of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede.Copy !req
356. And...Copy !req
357. for some reason...Copy !req
358. lam certain that you are working
for Herr Dr. Benway.Copy !req
359. I'm - l-l-I'm sorry.Copy !req
360. I apparently mistook you
for somebody else.Copy !req
361. But as it happens, Mr. Lee,
lam, among other things...Copy !req
362. a provider of rare services to the arts...Copy !req
363. and in my experience
as a provider of rare services to the arts...Copy !req
364. I have found that writers
are a-a particularly needy group.Copy !req
365. Is there nothing
I can provide for you...Copy !req
366. Mr. Lee?Copy !req
367. Avery professional...Copy !req
368. operation...Copy !req
369. as you can see, Mr. Lee.Copy !req
370. You like a taste?Copy !req
371. I'd be happy to join you in a taste,
if you're planning to have one.Copy !req
372. You can understand
that if you were...Copy !req
373. a purchasing agent
for a foreign power...Copy !req
374. how it would be
to my advantage...Copy !req
375. to impress you with the cleanliness...Copy !req
376. and the sincerity...Copy !req
377. of our operation.Copy !req
378. - You, uh, mentioned a Dr. -
- Benway.Copy !req
379. - Benway.
- Benway. Correct.Copy !req
380. Yes.Copy !req
381. Does he qualify as a foreign power?Copy !req
382. Oh, but yes!
He's very foreign.Copy !req
383. May I?Copy !req
384. Yes.Copy !req
385. Lee, wake up.Copy !req
386. This is no time to doze off...Copy !req
387. like a freckled-face boy
on a fishing raft.Copy !req
388. What's up?Copy !req
389. Now, now, Bill.
No need for that.Copy !req
390. You didn't think
we'd abandon you, did ya?Copy !req
391. No, no. The thought
never occurred to me.Copy !req
392. Good. We like confidence in an agent.Copy !req
393. But don't let it make you careless.Copy !req
394. I was, uh -Copy !req
395. I was just in the...Copy !req
396. process of configuring my report.Copy !req
397. That's good, Lee. Admirable.Copy !req
398. But there have been some changes -Copy !req
399. - Changes at the top.
- Oh? Yeah?Copy !req
400. Good changes, Bill.
Fresh blood. Sparkling insights.Copy !req
401. Uh, Bill, could you do me a favor?Copy !req
402. What?Copy !req
403. I want you to type
a few words into me -Copy !req
404. words that I'll dictate to ya.Copy !req
405. Yeah.Copy !req
406. Sure. What the hell.Copy !req
407. Okay. Now, the first sentence is...Copy !req
408. “Homosexuality is the best
all-around cover an agent ever had.”Copy !req
409. Aw, come on, Bill.Copy !req
410. Don't be such a pansy!
Be forceful.Copy !req
411. Hurt me.Copy !req
412. I love it.Copy !req
413. That is a great sentence.Copy !req
414. These are words to live by, Bill.Copy !req
415. I'm glad these words
are going into your report.Copy !req
416. Our new management will be so pleased...Copy !req
417. that you see our point of view.Copy !req
418. What - What point of view?Copy !req
419. Well, uh, just that we appreciate...Copy !req
420. that you might find the thought
of engaging in, uh, homosexual acts...Copy !req
421. morally and, uh, possibly even...Copy !req
422. physically repulsive...Copy !req
423. and, uh, we are encouraged...Copy !req
424. that you are able to overcome
these personal, uh, barriers...Copy !req
425. to better serve the cause
to which we are all so devoted.Copy !req
426. You have left the Clark Nova at home?Copy !req
427. It's doing all right without me.Copy !req
428. And, uh...Copy !req
429. you have contacted Dr. Benway?Copy !req
430. I told you before
I never met the man.Copy !req
431. Bill, I can smell him on you.Copy !req
432. Benway marks out all those
whom he has met like a lemur...Copy !req
433. pissing on a Iiana vine
to mark his territory.Copy !req
434. You're a marked man, Bill.Copy !req
435. joanie.Copy !req
436. joanie, shall we go?Copy !req
437. Yes. Yes.Copy !req
438. Hans. Hans, that couple.Copy !req
439. Who are they?Copy !req
440. They are Tom and joan Frost.Copy !req
441. Americans who have lived here
a very long time.Copy !req
442. They're both writers.Copy !req
443. Writers of fiction, like you.Copy !req
444. They live in a nice flat...Copy !req
445. in the new building
at the foot of the mountain.Copy !req
446. They're visited constantly...Copy !req
447. by many handsome,
young lnterzone men.Copy !req
448. Sometimes...Copy !req
449. two or three at a time.Copy !req
450. (Ian you, uh, introduce me?Copy !req
451. I do not think
it would be to your advantage.Copy !req
452. For some reason...Copy !req
453. that woman has taken
a serious dislike to me.Copy !req
454. Kiki.Copy !req
455. Come sit with us.Copy !req
456. Kiki, this is Mr. Lee.Copy !req
457. Hello.Copy !req
458. Mr. Lee is curious about the Frost couple.Copy !req
459. He would like to meet them.Copy !req
460. I think the woman would have
sex with you, Mr. Lee.Copy !req
461. The man, he only likes Interzone boys.Copy !req
462. I don't want to fuck 'em.
I just want to talk to 'em.Copy !req
463. You know how
Americans are, Kiki.Copy !req
464. They love to travel...Copy !req
465. and then they only want to meet
other Americans...Copy !req
466. and talk about how hard it is
to get a decent hamburger.Copy !req
467. There's a party tonight at the O'Leary place.Copy !req
468. Frost will be meeting
a group of us here...Copy !req
469. and then walking
through the casbah.Copy !req
470. My friends and I would be happy
to take you with us.Copy !req
471. You're the new writer, aren't you?
You've just arrived.Copy !req
472. A few days ago.
I write, uh, reports.Copy !req
473. Oh? Uh, and did you
come to lnterzone for the boys?Copy !req
474. - No, I didn't.
- Tom and I did.Copy !req
475. That's quite a hot threesome
you arrived with.Copy !req
476. They're very cheap,
and they're really a lot of fun.Copy !req
477. - Yoo-hoo!Copy !req
478. You use a Clark Nova, don't you?Copy !req
479. To write with. Typewriter.Copy !req
480. Oh, I do. Yes.Copy !req
481. I wouldn't use a Clark Nova myself.Copy !req
482. - Too demanding.
- Demanding?Copy !req
483. Oh, come on. We're both writers.
We know what we're talking about.Copy !req
484. Well, I'm new to this game,
to tell you the truth.Copy !req
485. If I get blocked again,
I'll let you try my Martinelli.Copy !req
486. Her inventiveness will surprise you.Copy !req
487. I can't wait.Copy !req
488. They say you murdered your wife.Copy !req
489. - Is that true?
- Who told you that?Copy !req
490. Word gets around.Copy !req
491. It wasn't murder.
It was an accident.Copy !req
492. There are no accidents.Copy !req
493. For example...Copy !req
494. I've been killing my own wife slowly,
over a period of years.Copy !req
495. - What?
- Well, not intentionally.Copy !req
496. I mean, on the level of conscious intention,
it's insane, monstrous.Copy !req
497. But you do consciously know it.
You just said it. We're discussing it.Copy !req
498. Not consciously.Copy !req
499. This is all happening...
telepathically.Copy !req
500. - Nonconsciously.
- What do you mean?Copy !req
501. If you look carefully at my lips...Copy !req
502. you'll realize
that I'm actually saying something else.Copy !req
503. I'm not actually telling you
about the several ways...Copy !req
504. I'm gradually murderingjoan -Copy !req
505. about the housekeeper Fadela,
whom I've hired...Copy !req
506. to makejoan deathly ill by witchcraft...Copy !req
507. about the medicines
and drugs I've given her...Copy !req
508. about the constant nibbling away
at her self-esteem and sanity...Copy !req
509. that I've managed
without being at all obvious about it.Copy !req
510. Whereasjoanie finds that she simply...Copy !req
511. cannot be as obsessively precise
as she wants to be...Copy !req
512. unless she writes
everything in longhand.Copy !req
513. Look, uh, I'm afraid, um...Copy !req
514. I'm not gonna be
very good company tonight.Copy !req
515. Thanks for the invite anyway.
I think I'll - I'll have to take a rain check.Copy !req
516. Oh.Copy !req
517. Enjoying the beach?Copy !req
518. I would never have expected
to see you up and out so early.Copy !req
519. You certainly were in rough shape
at the O'Leary party last night.Copy !req
520. Was I?Copy !req
521. You were very raw -
emotionally, I mean.Copy !req
522. You seemed to be in a lot of pain.Copy !req
523. Pain.Copy !req
524. I don't remember... pain.Copy !req
525. And, in fact, I don't remember
the O'Leary party.Copy !req
526. In fact, I don't remember you.Copy !req
527. Well, it was a very intense
performance in any case.Copy !req
528. My name's (Iloquet.Copy !req
529. Yves Cloquet.Copy !req
530. (Ian I buy you breakfast?Copy !req
531. I've seen you around,
but I had no idea you were queer.Copy !req
532. Queer.Copy !req
533. I saw you arrive
with those three lnterzone boys.Copy !req
534. What an entrance.Copy !req
535. You all looked very...Copy !req
536. familiar with each other.Copy !req
537. Queer.Copy !req
538. A curse.
Been in our family for generations.Copy !req
539. The Lees have always been perverts.Copy !req
540. I shall never forget
the unspeakable horror...Copy !req
541. that froze the lymph in my glands...Copy !req
542. when the baneful word seared
my reeling brain -Copy !req
543. 'Q00Copy !req
544. was a homosexual.Copy !req
545. I thought of the painted,
simpering female impersonators...Copy !req
546. I had seen in a Baltimore nightclub.Copy !req
547. Could it be possible
I was one of those subhuman things?Copy !req
548. I walked the streets in a daze...Copy !req
549. like a man with a light concussion.Copy !req
550. I would have destroyed myself-Copy !req
551. But a wise old queen -Copy !req
552. Bobo, we called her-Copy !req
553. taught me that I had a duty...Copy !req
554. to live and to bear my burden
proudly for all to see.Copy !req
555. Poor Bobo came to a sticky end.Copy !req
556. He was riding in
the Duc de Ventre's Hispano-Suiza...Copy !req
557. when his falling hemorrhoids
blew out of the car...Copy !req
558. and wrapped around the rear wheel.Copy !req
559. He was completely gutted,
leaving an empty shell...Copy !req
560. sitting there
on the giraffe-skin upholstery.Copy !req
561. Even the eyes and the brain went...Copy !req
562. with a horrible “schlupping” sound.Copy !req
563. The duke says he will carry that ghastly
schlup with him to his mausoleum.Copy !req
564. You sound as if you could use a drink.
My place?Copy !req
565. A drink.Copy !req
566. A drink?Copy !req
567. No.Copy !req
568. No, I can't. I gotta go home.Copy !req
569. I have a-
I have a-Copy !req
570. I have a report to write.
Excuse me.Copy !req
571. Hmm.Copy !req
572. You made a big hit
with our young friend Yves.Copy !req
573. - Yves?
- (Iloquet.Copy !req
574. Yves said you were wonderfully funny.Copy !req
575. Said you did a little routine that made him...
chuckle to himself all day.Copy !req
576. Yes, you-you could, um -Copy !req
577. You could probably get him into bed
if you worked at it a bit.Copy !req
578. Deadly aphrodisiac, humor.Copy !req
579. I'm not, uh -Copy !req
580. I don't really-Copy !req
581. Have you seen Hans around?Copy !req
582. Oh, you mean you haven't heard?Copy !req
583. No. I haven't heard.Copy !req
584. Hans was arrested and deported
two weeks ago.Copy !req
585. - Deported.
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
586. They let him take his clothes
and his passport.Copy !req
587. That was it.
Everything else - nationalized, as they say.Copy !req
588. Why?Copy !req
589. He neglected to pay
the right officials, I think.Copy !req
590. You knew he ran
a drug factory in the medina?Copy !req
591. - What, um -Copy !req
592. What drug did he manufacture?Copy !req
593. Nothing too exotic.Copy !req
594. Majoun, I think.
It's a local hash resin-almond paste.Copy !req
595. You'd spread it on a muffin like jam.Copy !req
596. Try it.Copy !req
597. While you're at it,
why don't you try my Martinelli?Copy !req
598. Take her now.Copy !req
599. Try her out.Copy !req
600. Holy shit. That machine doesn't
belong to me. It's Tom Frost's.Copy !req
601. My God, Lee...Copy !req
602. Surely you know better than to bring
an enemy agent into your own home.Copy !req
603. You gave me no choice. You were giving her
access to your innermost vulnerabilities...Copy !req
604. forcing them on her,
for God's sake!Copy !req
605. But what am I gonna tell him?Copy !req
606. What's your assessment of the situation?Copy !req
607. Did Frost know that his machine
was an lnterzonal agent?Copy !req
608. He, uh - He and his wife
appear to have a close connection...Copy !req
609. with the indigenous population here.Copy !req
610. His wife.
Yeah, yeah!Copy !req
611. Of course!
The key isjoan Frost.Copy !req
612. You will seduce her, and you will discover
the substance of her report...Copy !req
613. and deliver it directly to me.Copy !req
614. Seduce her?
But what about -Copy !req
615. What about Kiki and
the lnterzone boys? My cover.Copy !req
616. It'll work beautifully, Bill. The opposition
will be thrown into total confusion.Copy !req
617. - Tom's gone out with the boys.
- I came to see you.Copy !req
618. Oh.Copy !req
619. There's a great restaurant
in New York looks just like this.Copy !req
620. Oh, really?Copy !req
621. - You write in longhand.
- Yes.Copy !req
622. I'm not good with machines.
They intimidate me.Copy !req
623. I think I broke Tom's typewriter.Copy !req
624. The Martinelli?
He'll be furious.Copy !req
625. - Does he have another one?
- He has that one, the Mujahideen.Copy !req
626. - It's Arabic.
- Does he use it much?Copy !req
627. Not much.Copy !req
628. What happened to the Martinelli?Copy !req
629. I probably just
threw it on the floor and smashed it.Copy !req
630. Probably? You don't know?Copy !req
631. I suffer from, um...Copy !req
632. sporadic hallucinations.Copy !req
633. Join the club.Copy !req
634. Do you intend to kill Tom's Mujahideen?Copy !req
635. Only in self-defense.Copy !req
636. I understood writing
could be dangerous.Copy !req
637. I didn't realize the danger
came from the machinery.Copy !req
638. - What are you talking about?
- I'll show you.Copy !req
639. Oh.Copy !req
640. - Are you gonna write something in Arabic?
- No.Copy !req
641. You are.Copy !req
642. I don't like using Tom's things.Copy !req
643. We don't trespass on each other.Copy !req
644. Do you have any objection
to trying some of this?Copy !req
645. I can't read it.
Is it erotic?Copy !req
646. It's, um, fairly erotic.Copy !req
647. - Kind of uncivilized.
- More erotic.Copy !req
648. Filthier.Copy !req
649. - Filthier? Okay.
- All you think about.Copy !req
650. - Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades...
- Getting really...Copy !req
651. - pretty good here.
- doodling in Etruscan...Copy !req
652. - addicts of drugs not yet synthesized...
- I'm surpassing myself here.Copy !req
653. Black marketeers of World War III...Copy !req
654. - exc/sors of te/epa th/c sens/tivlty..
- [ M o a n s ]Copy !req
655. Followers of obsolete,
unthinkable trades.Copy !req
656. Ooh, this is very good.Copy !req
657. - Addicts of drugs not yet synthesized -
- Very, very dirty.Copy !req
658. World War III...Copy !req
659. excisors of telepathic sensitivity...Copy !req
660. osteopaths of the spirit...Copy !req
661. investigators of infractions...Copy !req
662. denounced by bland,
paranoid chess players.Copy !req
663. Joan.Copy !req
664. Oh, yuan.Copy !req
665. Mrs. Frost!Copy !req
666. This is an evil
and insane thing that you are doing.Copy !req
667. You must stop it at once!Copy !req
668. Pull up your hair.Copy !req
669. Who's that?Copy !req
670. Oh, my housekeeper.Copy !req
671. - I Wh/p Snaps]Copy !req
672. It's my Mujahideen.Copy !req
673. For God's sake!Copy !req
674. It jumped of its own accord.Copy !req
675. - You did see that, didn't you?Copy !req
676. Joan, are you all right?
What happened?Copy !req
677. Fadela stormed in here, and-and
she threw your typewriter out the window.Copy !req
678. Well, that's it.
The woman has to go.Copy !req
679. She certainly seemed deadly to me.Copy !req
680. Oh, I knew it.Copy !req
681. Look, Tom.Copy !req
682. LookCopy !req
683. This is how Fadela's
been controlling you, joan.Copy !req
684. Your blood, your pubic hair,
your fingernails.Copy !req
685. Fadela controls nobody,
and you know it.Copy !req
686. We have forced control upon her.Copy !req
687. Poor woman's probably desperate
to get out of our household.Copy !req
688. No, missus.
She's making you say everything...Copy !req
689. even that.Copy !req
690. You must find all of these in your house.
You must destroy them.Copy !req
691. Bill...Copy !req
692. I'm going to need my Martinelli.Copy !req
693. I feel desperately insecure
without a typewriter in the house.Copy !req
694. Yes, well, I haven't had a chance to try it out
yet, Tom. I was kind of hoping -Copy !req
695. I'll leave Hafid here with you, joanie,
in case Fadela comes back.Copy !req
696. Bill and I will go to his place
and pick up the Martinelli now.Copy !req
697. I'll go with Bill.
You two stay here.Copy !req
698. I need to get out.Copy !req
699. Fadela's within 3O feet of us.
See if you can find her.Copy !req
700. There.Copy !req
701. She's right there.Copy !req
702. That thing she's cutting up...Copy !req
703. have you ever seen that before?Copy !req
704. No.Copy !req
705. Looks like some kind of
sea creature, I think.Copy !req
706. All those women...Copy !req
707. they work for her?Copy !req
708. In a sense.
They're all Fadela's lovers.Copy !req
709. I'm going to have to -Copy !req
710. I'm gonna have to
stay here with Fadela -Copy !req
711. do penance.Copy !req
712. I've been instructed to reveal to you...Copy !req
713. that you were programmed
to shoot your wife, joan Lee.Copy !req
714. It was not an act
of free will on your part.Copy !req
715. Hey!Copy !req
716. Who the fuck asked ya?Copy !req
717. You worry me, Bill.Copy !req
718. You cause me many anxious moments.Copy !req
719. Oh, gee, I hope you're not
losing any sleep.Copy !req
720. No need to be nasty, Bill.Copy !req
721. There was some thought that you might
actually want to hear this information -Copy !req
722. that it might assuage your guilt.Copy !req
723. Save the psychoanalysis
for your grasshopper friends.Copy !req
724. You have to admit,
it was a pretty tasty setup, Bill.Copy !req
725. Joan marries you as part
of her agent's cover...Copy !req
726. not realizing that you were
the very enemy agent assigned to kill her.Copy !req
727. As elegant as it is brilliant.Copy !req
728. Wait a minute.Copy !req
729. You're saying thatjoan was sent
by lnterzone, Incorporated to marry me?Copy !req
730. Yeah. In fact, she was sent
to you by Fadela, who was her controller.Copy !req
731. We did a lot of groundwork
to set you up in their files...Copy !req
732. as the prime candidate for marriage.Copy !req
733. And it didn't matter that
I didn't know anything about it?Copy !req
734. An unconscious agent
is an effective agent, Bill.Copy !req
735. The situation does generate
some ethical paradoxes at times.Copy !req
736. I'm the first to admit that.Copy !req
737. When you bugs first approached me...Copy !req
738. one of your associates suggested...Copy !req
739. thatjoan was possibly not human.Copy !req
740. What did he mean by that?Copy !req
741. Women aren't human, Bill.Copy !req
742. Or perhaps more precisely...Copy !req
743. they're a different species from men...Copy !req
744. with different wills
and different purposes on Earth.Copy !req
745. You know this instinctively, Bill...Copy !req
746. and it's your instincts
that make you such a good operative.Copy !req
747. I'm talking aboutjoan.Copy !req
748. Ifjoan Lee wasn't human...Copy !req
749. what was she?Copy !req
750. Well, joan was a special case.Copy !req
751. Joan was an elite-corps centipede.Copy !req
752. Joan was a centipede.Copy !req
753. Where's my Martinelli?Copy !req
754. Jesus, Tom, are you nuts?Copy !req
755. Don't fuck with me, Lee.
I want my typewriter.Copy !req
756. A lot of people have tried to silence me.Copy !req
757. All have failed.Copy !req
758. Tom...Copy !req
759. she's here...Copy !req
760. in pieces.Copy !req
761. I fear it's hopeless.Copy !req
762. All right.Copy !req
763. - We're taking your Clark Nova.Copy !req
764. Hafid, the bag.Copy !req
765. No.Copy !req
766. No.Copy !req
767. Wh-Wh-What's going on here?Copy !req
768. Wait, wait, wait! This is
a heinous mistake you're making.Copy !req
769. Lee, do something.
Stop them.Copy !req
770. Well, he's got a gun, Clark Nova.
You don't want to lose your best agent, do ya?Copy !req
771. You're gonna have to write
a full report, Lee. And I mean full.Copy !req
772. How am I gonna write it,
in longhand?Copy !req
773. Will you take this sack off?Copy !req
774. This is insubordination!Copy !req
775. Ooh, you're all gonna pay for this!
Heads are gonna roll!Copy !req
776. Your days in Interzone are numbered, Lee.Copy !req
777. I suggest you give up
the writing game.Copy !req
778. - Make tracks for another part of the world.
- You guys are gonna -Copy !req
779. Fuck 'em all.
Squares on both sides.Copy !req
780. I am the only complete man in the industry.Copy !req
781. - Bill.
- Bill?Copy !req
782. I must be hallucinating.Copy !req
783. What are you cats doing here?Copy !req
784. We're here to see you, Bill.Copy !req
785. Come on.Copy !req
786. Yeah, man. It's probably the first time
you haven't been hallucinating in a long time.Copy !req
787. What are you talking about?Copy !req
788. What are you saying?
Naturally, I've had a few odd moments.Copy !req
789. Everybody blacks out in lnterzone.Copy !req
790. - Wouldn't you?
- Definitely.Copy !req
791. Sure.Copy !req
792. What's in the pillowcase, Bill?Copy !req
793. These are the remains
of my last writing machine.Copy !req
794. It's been a big problem for me.Copy !req
795. - Mind if I take a look?
- Go ahead.Copy !req
796. Wait a minute.
Where are we going?Copy !req
797. Oh, man.Copy !req
798. - How about back to your place?
- Nope.Copy !req
799. Why not?Copy !req
800. I'm not safe there.
I'm a dead duck there.Copy !req
801. We'll protect you.Copy !req
802. You boys are kidding yourselves.Copy !req
803. You're babes in the woods here.Copy !req
804. Well, what do you suggest?Copy !req
805. We thought it was important for us
to help you get your book together.Copy !req
806. Yeah, I've sent sections of it
to my publisher, and they're interested.Copy !req
807. - All you gotta do is finish it, man.
- You've already done the hard part.Copy !req
808. Book. My book?Copy !req
809. Yeah. The one
you've been calling Nakedlunch.Copy !req
810. Where did you put
that Bradley the Buyer routine?Copy !req
811. Did you find it all?Copy !req
812. Yeah. It's on the sofa
right next to the Hassan's Rumpus Room riff.Copy !req
813. - It's all right there.
- I'm telling you, boys...Copy !req
814. I never saw those pages before.Copy !req
815. I truly do suspect
some sort of colossal con.Copy !req
816. Oh, someone's planted
these pages in your room, right?Copy !req
817. Somebody sent all those letters to me
and signed them with your name, right?Copy !req
818. A well-orchestrated cabal
could easily manage...Copy !req
819. all of these simple things, children.Copy !req
820. When will you learn?Copy !req
821. They've done you a favor, 'cause this stuffs
gonna get published under your name...Copy !req
822. and you'll have a career.Copy !req
823. Yeah, you'll probably
get into print before we will.Copy !req
824. For God's sake, Bill,
play ball with this conspiracy.Copy !req
825. You're patronizing me, boys...Copy !req
826. but I don't mind,
'cause you're so sweet to me, too.Copy !req
827. Hey, Martin, listen to this.Copy !req
828. “So we start for New Orleans past
iridescent lakes and orange gas flares...Copy !req
829. “and swamps and garbage heaps...Copy !req
830. “alligators crawling around
in broken bottles and tin cans...Copy !req
831. “neon arabesques of motels...Copy !req
832. “marooned pimps scream obscenities
at passing cars from islands of rubbish.Copy !req
833. New Orleans is a dead museum.”Copy !req
834. So nice.Copy !req
835. Sound familiar, Bill?Copy !req
836. First time I ever heard it. Read on.Copy !req
837. I think it's time to discuss your, uh...Copy !req
838. philosophy of drug use
as it relates to artistic endeavor.Copy !req
839. I think it's time
to bring this meeting to order.Copy !req
840. I think it's time for you boys
to share my last taste...Copy !req
841. of the true black meat.Copy !req
842. The flesh of the giant
aquatic Brazilian centipede.Copy !req
843. So we're still here
in Interzone with Bill, right?Copy !req
844. That's right, Hank.Copy !req
845. And now we're gonna travel
back to the city, right?Copy !req
846. - That's right, Hank.
- I think Bill's on top of things here, don't you?Copy !req
847. He has a grip on a certain, uh,
unique reality principle, yes.Copy !req
848. I think you both should consider
staying here for a few months.Copy !req
849. Everything you could want
is cheap and-and plentiful here.Copy !req
850. That reality principle thing
could work for you, too.Copy !req
851. Well, my mother's all alone,
and she's kind of sick, Bill.Copy !req
852. And besides, my book's
as all-American as football.Copy !req
853. - Couldn't finish it here.
- America is not a young land.Copy !req
854. It is old...Copy !req
855. and dirty and evil.Copy !req
856. Before the settlers,
before the Indians.Copy !req
857. The evil is there waiting.Copy !req
858. What about you, Martin?Copy !req
859. Maybe you can, uh, move into my place.Copy !req
860. What do you think?Copy !req
861. Stay until you finish the book...Copy !req
862. but then come back to us.Copy !req
863. You'll be okay?Copy !req
864. Yeah. Don't worry about me.Copy !req
865. The Zone is full of surprises.Copy !req
866. The Zone takes care of its own.Copy !req
867. - William?Copy !req
868. You look terrible.Copy !req
869. What are you doing here?Copy !req
870. I don't - I don't know.Copy !req
871. I just -Copy !req
872. My only fr _Copy !req
873. My only friends in the -
in the world.Copy !req
874. I- I'm afraid I-
I'll never see 'em again.Copy !req
875. I feel -feel so -Copy !req
876. Oh. Severed.Copy !req
877. Come with me.Copy !req
878. - Take me home.
- I can't go home.Copy !req
879. I can't go home.Copy !req
880. Is that your typing machine there?Copy !req
881. Foutu.
Broken... beyond repair.Copy !req
882. If we fix the typing machine...Copy !req
883. we also fix the life.Copy !req
884. There. You see?Copy !req
885. There's no cause for despair.Copy !req
886. In this shop,
anything can be fixed that is broken.Copy !req
887. I don't know, Kiki.Copy !req
888. They don't seem to be capable
of delicate work here.Copy !req
889. You must have faith, William.Copy !req
890. Look.Copy !req
891. We have your new writing machine.Copy !req
892. Not bad. Not bad.
Not bad. Not bad.Copy !req
893. I feel very comfortable
working with you.Copy !req
894. I like that sense of camaraderie in an agent.Copy !req
895. You must be progressing.Copy !req
896. My predecessor felt you had
an ambivalent relationship with him.Copy !req
897. - You mean Clark Nova.
- Yes.Copy !req
898. How is he?Copy !req
899. He's still in the hands of our enemies.Copy !req
900. Such are the hazards of our trade.Copy !req
901. A hazardous trade, yes.Copy !req
902. Your report on the subversive
activities ofjoan Frost...Copy !req
903. was a model of its type.Copy !req
904. If you continue to develop
your skills as an operative...Copy !req
905. I think a top position
with the (I.l.A. is not out of reach.Copy !req
906. The C.l.A.?
You really think so?Copy !req
907. You have the demeanor.
That's something you can't buy.Copy !req
908. The (I.l.A.Copy !req
909. The (I.l.A.Copy !req
910. Now, that's a career
you can really sink your teeth into.Copy !req
911. It has...Copy !req
912. resonance.Copy !req
913. But giving yourself over
to being a writer -Copy !req
914. Ah, well.Copy !req
915. This stuff is very potent.Copy !req
916. The two are very closely related.Copy !req
917. So you boys keep telling me.Copy !req
918. Well, what's my next assignment?Copy !req
919. I'm hungry for adventure.Copy !req
920. Excellent.
You know the Swiss dandy Cloquet?Copy !req
921. - Yes.
- And?Copy !req
922. I think he's a faggito and won't admit it.Copy !req
923. That ought to make it all easier.Copy !req
924. You will seduce
or otherwise compromise (Iloquet.Copy !req
925. We have it on good authority
that he's our conduit to Benway.Copy !req
926. Dr. Benway, M.D., Ph.D.?Copy !req
927. Self-styled. He never actually
made it through medical school.Copy !req
928. He runs an interesting little show here
which he calls lnterzone, Inc.Copy !req
929. Pretentious, if you ask me.Copy !req
930. Benway's behind lnterzone, lnc.?Copy !req
931. The base of his pyramid
is a drug called the black meat.Copy !req
932. - The pyramid's tip -
- ls?Copy !req
933. Ah. Well, we'd like to know.Copy !req
934. Dr. Benway.Copy !req
935. - Of course.
- Yes.Copy !req
936. - Yes.
- And he's obviously got sensational cover.Copy !req
937. He's floated in and out
of the Zone for years...Copy !req
938. without anybody actually
ever seeing him.Copy !req
939. But now the pressure's on
to place an agent close to him.Copy !req
940. Me.Copy !req
941. Assessments are being made.Copy !req
942. - You're working away, William?
- Yes, Kiki.Copy !req
943. The machine turns out
to be a very good one.Copy !req
944. Mu y s/mpét/co.Copy !req
945. And I have you to thank for it...Copy !req
946. and so I will.Copy !req
947. Thank you.Copy !req
948. I'm very proud
to be your friend, you know.Copy !req
949. I'm very proud
that I can help you to be a writer.Copy !req
950. You have done that, Kiki.
You really have.Copy !req
951. Would you like some tea?Copy !req
952. That would be lovely, William.Copy !req
953. K //</ICopy !req
954. - Hmm?
- Do you know (Iloquet?Copy !req
955. The Swiss man with the big house
on the Old Valley Road?Copy !req
956. (Iloquet?Copy !req
957. Oh, yes, yes.
Yves with the wonderful car.Copy !req
958. He has a wonderful car?Copy !req
959. The most wonderful car.Copy !req
960. Enjoying the ride?Copy !req
961. I'm wild about it, yes.
Thank you.Copy !req
962. It's good to be wild sometimes.Copy !req
963. You know, I have often thought of
that funny story you told me...Copy !req
964. the first time we met on the beach.Copy !req
965. The one about the Duc de Ventre.Copy !req
966. At first I didn't know how to take it.Copy !req
967. I thought you were
making a pass at me.Copy !req
968. Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?Copy !req
969. His whole abdomen would move up and down,
you dig, farting out the words.Copy !req
970. It was unlike anything I ever heard.Copy !req
971. Bubbly, thick, stagnant sound.Copy !req
972. A sound you could smell.Copy !req
973. This man worked for the carnival, you dig?Copy !req
974. And to start with it was
like a novelty ventriloquist act.Copy !req
975. Afier a while,
the ass started talking on its own.Copy !req
976. He would go in
without anything prepared...Copy !req
977. and his ass would ad-lib
and toss the gags back at him every time.Copy !req
978. Then it developed sort of teethlike...Copy !req
979. little raspy incurving hooks
and started eating.Copy !req
980. He thought this was cute at first
and built an act around it...Copy !req
981. but the asshole would eat its way through
his pants and start talking on the street...Copy !req
982. shouting out it wanted equal rights.Copy !req
983. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags.
Nobody loved it.Copy !req
984. And it wanted to be kissed,
same as any other mouth.Copy !req
985. Finally, it talked all the time,
day and night.Copy !req
986. You could hear him for blocks,
screaming at it to shut up...Copy !req
987. beating at it with his fists...Copy !req
988. and sticking candles up it, but...Copy !req
989. nothing did any good,
and the asshole said to him...Copy !req
990. “It is you who will shut up
in the end, not me...Copy !req
991. “because we don't need you
around here anymore.Copy !req
992. I can talk and eat and shit.”Copy !req
993. After that, he began waking up
in the morning with transparent jelly...Copy !req
994. like a tadpole's tail
all over his mouth.Copy !req
995. He would tear it off his mouth
and the pieces would stick to his hands...Copy !req
996. like burning gasoline jelly
and grow there.Copy !req
997. So, finally, his mouth sealed over...Copy !req
998. and the whole head...Copy !req
999. would have amputated spontaneously
except for the eyes, you dig?Copy !req
1000. That's the one thing
that the asshole couldn't do was see.Copy !req
1001. It needed the eyes.Copy !req
1002. Nerve connections were blocked...Copy !req
1003. and infiltrated and atrophied.Copy !req
1004. So, the brain couldn't
give orders anymore.Copy !req
1005. It was trapped inside the skull...Copy !req
1006. sealed off.Copy !req
1007. For a while, you could see...Copy !req
1008. the silent, helpless suffering
of the brain behind the eyes.Copy !req
1009. And then finally
the brain must have died...Copy !req
1010. because the eyes went out...Copy !req
1011. and there was no more feeling in them
than a crab's eye at the end of a stalk.Copy !req
1012. You seem to like my little friend.
I'm so glad.Copy !req
1013. I'm writing a business piece
on corporate life in North Africa.Copy !req
1014. Oh, my»Copy !req
1015. We are fragile today, aren't we?Copy !req
1016. He has to get to know you first.Copy !req
1017. Oh, does he?
Well, let's see what we can do, then.Copy !req
1018. Kiki, will you come
and see the parrots with me?Copy !req
1019. There are cages in the master bedroom.Copy !req
1020. I, um, don't think I can, Mr. (Iloquet.Copy !req
1021. That is, I don't really want to.Copy !req
1022. I'd particularly like to interview
a certain Dr. Benway.Copy !req
1023. Kiki doesn't seem to find my parrots
attractive anymore. Isn't that sad?Copy !req
1024. Kiki would love to play
with your parrots, Yves...Copy !req
1025. but Kiki is as anxious to contact
this Benway character as I am.Copy !req
1026. Fadela, the witch
who works for the Frosts...Copy !req
1027. she and Benway are...Copy !req
1028. intimates.Copy !req
1029. You didn't hear it from me.Copy !req
1030. - Kiki?Copy !req
1031. Go see the fucking parrots, will you, Kiki?
I gotta take a piss.Copy !req
1032. Then I'll come and get you,
and we'll go home.Copy !req
1033. Pissoir's at the end of the great hall.Copy !req
1034. Kiki.Copy !req
1035. Kiki.Copy !req
1036. Kiki.Copy !req
1037. Hello, Bill. What's up?Copy !req
1038. Something the matter?Copy !req
1039. You seem distracted.Copy !req
1040. I wish you'd say something.Copy !req
1041. I don't like this mood, Bill.Copy !req
1042. - Are we going out?
- You're going out.Copy !req
1043. Why don't you just write something
and calm yourself down?Copy !req
1044. You're obviously not
in a professional state of mind.Copy !req
1045. Maybe I should write about
your little double cross.Copy !req
1046. You expected me to end up
in that parrot cage with (Iloquet, didn't you?Copy !req
1047. Bill, are you thinking
of getting rid of me?Copy !req
1048. I think an exchange of hostages
is the only viable scenario.Copy !req
1049. No, really, Bill, if you get rid of me...Copy !req
1050. you sever ties with reality.Copy !req
1051. For instance, take the case of-Copy !req
1052. Oh! Careful!Copy !req
1053. Of the female agent who forgot
her real identity and merged with her cover story.Copy !req
1054. She is still a fflcoteuse in Annexia.Copy !req
1055. And incidentally, you can make a square,
heterosex citizen queer...Copy !req
1056. with this angle using drugs -Copy !req
1057. Tom...Copy !req
1058. I've brought you a new typewriter...Copy !req
1059. which conveniently dispenses
two types of intoxicating fluids...Copy !req
1060. when it likes what you've written.Copy !req
1061. Are you proposing to trade back
for your Clark Nova?Copy !req
1062. Thinking of it.Copy !req
1063. Has it written
anything good for you lately?Copy !req
1064. No. It's too damned
all-American for my taste.Copy !req
1065. Guess I've gone foreign or something.Copy !req
1066. Well, my Mugwriter here
is so foreign, it's almost alien.Copy !req
1067. You're gonna do
your best work on her. Guaranteed.Copy !req
1068. Hafid, bring the machine
in question for Bill, will you?Copy !req
1069. And how are you enjoying
your affair with joan?Copy !req
1070. Literate, complex and neurotic,
I would imagine.Copy !req
1071. I haven't seen her for weeks.Copy !req
1072. She ran off with Fadela and her coven.Copy !req
1073. Oh, that's too bad.Copy !req
1074. Yes, she does that
when she feels attracted to a man.Copy !req
1075. Don't give up though.
It's-It's a good sign.Copy !req
1076. With Joanie...Copy !req
1077. the courtship period can involve
years of passionate ambivalence.Copy !req
1078. Tom, I think we should
take a close look at his machine first...Copy !req
1079. test it thoroughly.Copy !req
1080. Don't you, Tom?Copy !req
1081. You both have different writing styles.Copy !req
1082. Bill Lee has always been a man
of powerful instinct, Hafid.Copy !req
1083. If he says I'll do
my best work on his machine...Copy !req
1084. well, I'm sure that's prophecy.Copy !req
1085. Take the gun, too, Bill.Copy !req
1086. No American should find himself
in a foreign land without a pistol.Copy !req
1087. You wouldn't be trying to set me up again,
now, would you, Tom?Copy !req
1088. Well, you've set yourself up already, Bill.Copy !req
1089. I'm just trying to give you
a fighting chance. That's all.Copy !req
1090. Clark Nova.Copy !req
1091. Clark Nova, it's me.Copy !req
1092. It's - It's Bill Lee.Copy !req
1093. Clark Nova, speak to me.
You're safe with me now.Copy !req
1094. They tortured me...Copy !req
1095. did unspeakable things to me.Copy !req
1096. I'm on my last legs.
The bastards.Copy !req
1097. Clark Nova, where isjoan?
Where'sjoan?Copy !req
1098. Hans's old drug factory in the medina.Copy !req
1099. Fadela is there.Copy !req
1100. Fadela is your point of penetration
into lnterzone, Inc.Copy !req
1101. Fadela.Copy !req
1102. Uh, what do I -
what do I do when I find her?Copy !req
1103. You'll know what to do
when the time comes.Copy !req
1104. Just remember this -Copy !req
1105. all agents defect...Copy !req
1106. and all resisters sell out.Copy !req
1107. That's the sad truth, Bill.Copy !req
1108. And a writer -
a writer lives the sad truth like anyone else.Copy !req
1109. The only difference is -Copy !req
1110. He files a report on it.Copy !req
1111. Leave me now...Copy !req
1112. before it's too late.Copy !req
1113. But wait. What aboutjoan?
What aboutjoan?Copy !req
1114. Go now!
Va ya con d/os.Copy !req
1115. - Clark Nova. Clark Nova -Copy !req
1116. Hurry. Hurry.Copy !req
1117. Come on.Copy !req
1118. Your notes must be much more
carefully detailed to be of any use to us.Copy !req
1119. You must write very clearly.Copy !req
1120. The effects of the drugs
must be cataloged...Copy !req
1121. with painstaking accuracy.Copy !req
1122. _ hamCopy !req
1123. - Joan.
- Bill.Copy !req
1124. Oh, Bill.Copy !req
1125. No.Copy !req
1126. No.Copy !req
1127. What is that?
What are you writing?Copy !req
1128. I'm writing...Copy !req
1129. “All is lost.Copy !req
1130. All is lost.”Copy !req
1131. - It's all I've ever written.
- No.Copy !req
1132. No.Copy !req
1133. Oh, yuan.Copy !req
1134. We have to see Fadela.Copy !req
1135. Take me to Fadela.Copy !req
1136. Lee, you're here.Copy !req
1137. Oh, thank God. Thank God.Copy !req
1138. You see, my misdemeanor
has borne sweet fruit.Copy !req
1139. Now you are with us.Copy !req
1140. I was right to approach you so brazenly.Copy !req
1141. And now Dr. Benway will have no choice -Copy !req
1142. - Benway.
- Benway.Copy !req
1143. No choice but to send me back -Copy !req
1144. - You'll see.
- Ben way.Copy !req
1145. Where I belong.Copy !req
1146. Well, well.Copy !req
1147. If it isn't William Lee.Copy !req
1148. I got to say I'm proud of you, sir.Copy !req
1149. It took you a while,
but you got us red-handed.Copy !req
1150. Full marks, boy.
Full marks.Copy !req
1151. I expected to see an operation
all out for the black meat here.Copy !req
1152. What's with all the Mugwumpjism?Copy !req
1153. The black meat concession
turns out to have...Copy !req
1154. some unfortunate
political strings attached.Copy !req
1155. We've just cut those strings.Copy !req
1156. From now on,
Interzone is strictly Mugwump territory.Copy !req
1157. As you can see, we've made
a flying start here with our modest dispensary.Copy !req
1158. I can feel the heat
closing in on you, Fadela.Copy !req
1159. Feel them out there
making their moves, you dig?Copy !req
1160. Oh, really?Copy !req
1161. Fadela. Huh.Copy !req
1162. Huh.Copy !req
1163. You mean this old thing.Copy !req
1164. _ Benway!
_ Benway!Copy !req
1165. Benway!Copy !req
1166. We met once before, remember? Stateside.Copy !req
1167. You don't remember.
You had that look, boy.Copy !req
1168. The look of a...
sheep-killing dog.Copy !req
1169. Decided to recruit you
right on the spot.Copy !req
1170. I'm afraid I was forced
by the tenor of the times...Copy !req
1171. to prescribe that wretched
black meat powder to start you off on...Copy !req
1172. but the hole-in-the-wall operation,
limited resources -Copy !req
1173. you understand the problems.Copy !req
1174. But I understand from Cloquet
that, uh, you're on to our good stuff now.Copy !req
1175. Mugwumpjism can't be beat.Copy !req
1176. And as you can see,
we've got ourselves a few more friends now.Copy !req
1177. And a few more dollars, too.Copy !req
1178. Oh.Copy !req
1179. This little, uh, Fadela number
is something I developed...Copy !req
1180. during my tenure as chief physician
to the prime minister of Annexia.Copy !req
1181. “El Primo” liked to walk the streets
amongst his people in drag, and, well -Copy !req
1182. Well...Copy !req
1183. one thing led to another.Copy !req
1184. It is an elegant way to strike terror
into the hearts of the enemy...Copy !req
1185. wouldn't you say?Copy !req
1186. Old Fadela must be on the rag.Copy !req
1187. She's been acting subversive lately.Copy !req
1188. Speaking of new uses
for old technology...Copy !req
1189. I think the new order could find
a place for a man of your caliber.Copy !req
1190. A.32, wasn't it?Copy !req
1191. That is what you're here for, isn't it?Copy !req
1192. Hell...Copy !req
1193. I could use a reliable man
to send to Annexia.Copy !req
1194. We're expanding, boy.
I need a... spearhead.Copy !req
1195. Just tell me what you want.Copy !req
1196. I want her.Copy !req
1197. Her?Copy !req
1198. That purulent little cunt?
What for?Copy !req
1199. I can't write without her.Copy !req
1200. Bill, I feel confident...Copy !req
1201. that you and I can
work something out.Copy !req
1202. Papers, please.Copy !req
1203. What is the purpose of your visit...Copy !req
1204. and what is your profession?Copy !req
1205. I write reports. I'm a writer...Copy !req
1206. and I intend to write reports on life
in Annexia for the citizens of the U.S.A.Copy !req
1207. Do you have any proof of what you say?Copy !req
1208. How do we know
you are really a writer?Copy !req
1209. Well, I have a writing device.Copy !req
1210. That's not good enough.Copy !req
1211. Show us.Copy !req
1212. - Show you.
- Write something.Copy !req
1213. - Write something.
- Yes.Copy !req
1214. Write something.Copy !req
1215. Joan.Copy !req
1216. Joan.Copy !req
1217. What is it, Bill?
Are we there yet?Copy !req
1218. Almost, joan.Copy !req
1219. But I guess it's about time
for our William Tell routine.Copy !req
1220. Sure, Bill.Copy !req
1221. Welcome... to Annexia.Copy !req
1222. Yes. Welcome to Annexia.Copy !req