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This is the first scene of the play, when Lula and Clay first meet.
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START: Lula: Hello.
Clay: Uh, hi’re you?
Lula: I’m going to sit down...O.K.?
Clay: Sure.
[... ...]
END: Lula: And we’ll pretend that people cannot see you. That is, the citizens. And that you are free of your own history. And I am free of my history. We’ll pretend that we are both anonymous beauties smashing along through the city’s entrails. [She yells as loud as she can] GROOVE!
Amiri Baraka, “Dutchman”, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. E, 6th edition, W.W. Norton & Co., 2003, pp. 2312-3.
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