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START: Alan: This is a marvelous apartment.
Michael: It’s too expensive. I work to pay rent.
Alan: What are you doing these days?
Michael: Nothing.
Alan: Aren’t you writing anymore?
Michael: I haven’t looked at a typewriter since I sold the very very wonderful, very very marvelous screenplay which never got produced.
[... … …]
END: Michael: Why are you in New York?
Alan: I’m dreadfully late for dinner.
Michael: Whose dinner? Where are you going?
Alan: Is this the loo?
Michael: Yes.
Alan: Excuse me.
Crowley, Mart, The Boys in the Band, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968, pp. 48-52.
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