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okay let's see yes a cello may have a

b-flat please b-flat

listen Sandusky could you get someone

else to do that mr. Matthias I'm not so

good at b-flat it means I just can't

seem to get my hands and my eyes to

match any possibility you know like

private tutoring because I don't think

you've read the Teletoon and if you like

a professional and everything and I was

just thinking you know if I could study

we get along

you want a one-way ticket to the zoo hey

you grab his leash easy where'd you

learn to do that Oh a day younger

brother I use the Tormentor well that's

very impressive

extremely thank you you you bad bad you

understand

bad no not time to eat and you damn well

know it no sweet candy don't you talk

back to me give me your hand come on

come on you're bad

so anyway afternoons are good for me

they're good for you would that be okay

right

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music Department our new

artist-in-residence mr. vice president

Norton's wife Oh welcome to the month

thank you

I just told me Marge Marge oh my husband

is desert to miss you he's off on a

fundraising junket but he told me

specifically before he left to take care

of you make you absolutely feel our

western hospitality tell me more do you

like antique maps oh you know mal course

the cornerstone of the art department

mrs. Newton

Lauren could you excuse us a moment is a

terrible emergency in the music

department no yes a tarnish problem in

the brass

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cuz Our Lady of the apes probably wants

an increase in urban an allowance Oh

Alex

quite a treat to situate your party does

where's the primate disease that is

babies you know these gentlemen of

course and mrs. Parrish Alec - Chris -

yeah dr. Parrish ah I really must confer

with you all go ahead confer away

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so what how was your first day with the

Philharmonic oh it started off pretty

bad by the middle it was hideous

by the end the dissonance made over here

of my body stand on dissonance is valid

I wish my students were that free I can

make it happen yep kidding will they do

the music out here my teeth hurt at

night yes so I thought he wanted

something mindless so you could devote

yourself the composition that's mine

listen I only need ten hours a week you

have a teen graduate assistants well why

can't you lend me just wanna balance

this is no party talk no is it

why don't you come around to my office

like all the other faculty go well let

me get you something to drink please

urgent I only have two months and

Michael requires what time there helps

you know that I have nothing but respect

for your dedication and I pay no

attention to my other colleague Xue

suggest that you want to humanize that

little anthropoid and turn him into a

furry little childish michael requires

more time than I can give him on my own

not the time long time later I

appreciate you getting me the job it's

just that I mean I got a couple of goons

in the percussion technical pent up

Easterners set of expectations how

things should be done our life should be

live

I really do understand me I crave the

theater all I could find was a revival

of them any get your gun flying in

yesterday's edition of the New York

Times I looked in vain for LOX and

bagels

I miss the crowds I miss the fear of

getting mugged in the subway for God's

sakes and then finally finally finally

it came to me you gotta give yourself

over to the lifestyle you got a memo out

wait listen listen

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um would you uh pass the guacamole oh oh

yes you can relax I'm collecting a

natural sound including a sculpture I'm

workin on silences I'm really interested

in how oh yes um

excellent yeah it's called the wither

the West it's going to be a massive

statement we're leaving a massive

question for you I've whipped up a

little surprise in the kitchen I'm gonna

take care of that immediately right now

because I just can't wait not not any

longer I'm sorry I gotta run I'll be

back I promise be back Kowski he's so

intense - daddy's gay

sick hi I'm uh I'm mark Mathiason anyway

Alex Pistone psychology oh I'm musically

this is Bruce husbandry sit Oh yours no

just met sit seem to have a real rapport

with animals I like animals I don't make

small talk with the can no matter how

grumpy Oh on five and rejection so yeah

yeah are you enjoying the party

uh yes yes very much you owe

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well goodbye Bruce he's with us

music well not right now

damn

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so you better hear Michael you study him

I do research in in language acquisition

my Michael has a vocabulary of 125 words

oh yeah eternally you should turn left

there because we live in there -

actually no I mean language well by

teaching language that's incredible

point is

did you ever have a pen well sure let's

bring a spaniel when I was a kid

Artie yeah he lives at the 18 which is

pretty good crazy thing now you know we

put him into vet school my parents took

this vacation and when they came back to

get him out he was so happy to see them

that he had a heart attack he died right

there on the spot sorry

don't be silly died happy oh oh right

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didn't you ever want to talk to me oh

sure you know you had some great sense

no I mean really talked I mean well

asked him which breeds are the brightest

or whether or not dogs are by nature

managua how we felt about death in our

species communication no I project that

well it might take ten or fifteen years

until Michaels really converse n't

enough but gonna go together to Africa

and should I tell you maybe he can tell

me what his species is like what the

thinking 15 years how they perceive

human beings on how they excuse me I uh

you know I think run a football field

yes I know this forest

oh listen it's it's certainly been very

refreshing meeting you your involvement

with III I mean your you really and

their you're doing something thank you

very much for a lovely evening

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what can I do for you I was looking for

dr. Bristow you'll find her in room 208

this is Washoe Alan and Beatrice Gardner

had a simple but overwhelming insight

talking producing vocal utterances is

not the only way to conduct a

conversation and if a chimpanzee could

not imitate speech it might well be able

to master another form of communication

language using gestures or signs instead

of spoken words amis land the language

of the death flower drink baby towel

who's that me me

washer lights today why show is almost

20 years old and for the past 7 years

she has been teaching her adopted son

Lula Stu sign

Washoe by herself just think of the

implications it took man hundreds of

thousands of years to develop language

hundreds of thousands of years separate

man from the so called lower forms of

life and yet in an evolutionary instant

a mere beast is passing this most

sophisticated form of communication to

future generations is washer washer he's

already been talking now for twenty

years what are you trying to prove with

Michael Simon isn't mimicking that he

doesn't do it for rewards like M&Ms and

bananas but that he genuinely wants to

communicate like a human trial I want

him to conceptualize to make

combinations words he puts together by

himself phone takes time what are you

doing me III I was writing music and I

had an inspiration would you like to get

a cup of coffee

oh no I I don't talk

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I'm cool

Cleo's mother you play real good ah you

don't make one mistake dude you're a

mother I know I don't look old enough

I'm not

I hate Cleo when I was 14

of course that's nothing huh hardware

this child in Chile Argentina one of

them sunny poverty country baby when she

was six

we heard you playing last night

oh I'll try to keep it down yeah but

we're all music lovers here even that

stuff you play Kenny Rogers is my

favorite yeah you're professional

musician I used to be I'm teaching at

the University really Kyle goes to

school over there which is some sort of

prodigy no why should you stop talk

Turkey

so how come you gave it up music oh why

I didn't give up music yet I'm I'm

actually I'm teaching so I can write

music so I can have a little time peace

quiet no interruption

so did your temporary I know about

temporary

no no you know what I do just temporary

cashier at a video or okay ha

I tell you all the licks lips going on

in my brain still one time way back when

Derek nice clothes daddy he found

himself a girlfriend and took off for

good and I had to get me a job real

quick I was a roller skate waitress at

the drive-in now that was some kind of

work I would imagine that would be

doctor purse you encouraged me to embark

on this project Alex that was when you

were students we had a little more in

common misunderstanding problem that I

have is that psychology department -

suffering cutbacks like everybody else

and something has to go and then old

flames get put out first don't get all

flustered it's nothing personal

our emphasis has got to be a hard

scientific investigation with direct

social value project Michael isn't hard

enough project microwaving it's a little

tough to take a room full of bananas and

baby toys seriously Alex I know you're

working a little fanny off in that

playroom but my playroom isn't as

impressive as your playroom if you would

just come and see the progress we're

making Michael and I are on the brink of

a breakthrough breakthroughs are great

breakthroughs that bullshit Alex science

is not great through sciences baby steps

you want to earn respect as a scientist

you cut yourself a little piece of turf

and you worry it to death my work is as

scientific as yours or anyone elses my

documentation is rigorous the only thing

that I lack is manpower which it's no

fondle so I'm gonna tell you something

else

quick pedaling that April on campus on

the back of your bike that's the entire

scientific community on it

thank you it doesn't matter anyway

Michael and I are gonna show you in

those foundation people things that you

never dreamed of and we're gonna get our

$80,000 wouldn't set my heart on it Alex

I would and you can put that in your

computer and process me i'm really

attempting to focus him right now i'm

analyzing the role of routine you want

me to leave yes trying to focus him what

why do you do that here because it's

imperative that you learn to concentrate

and confused surroundings for alex i

mean that's a risk so don't don't let me

chase you away it's alright really we

were going anyway Michael

sure I'm fine really it's just I'm just

sort of American Science Foundation sure

jig you're in the art department knew

two months they're coming to evaluate my

work with Michael it

well dr. Parrish won't give me any more

assistance and I really want me out of

here I mean my work is no it's

completely political I mean I don't mean

my work is it

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well that just sucks doesn't no no no no

that was almost there actually that was

much cleaner that was almost crisp well

one thing the music was written in 4/4

would probably sound better played this

way oh my god what was I doing

nobody are you were close you were close

really it was somewhere around three

three and a half maybe you don't think I

should change my major do you mean music

is your major I want to be a

professional like you a soloist

yes solo solo cello oh it's uh it's it's

still early in your give your career I

mean you haven't really been playing

long enough to be making these kinds of

decisions twelve years

Beethoven was probably dead at my age

watch this barmaid yeah that's two

drinks

and that's for me and my friend very

impressive so what now that you're

tutoring chimpanzees when are you gonna

find time to write a full time

commitment or anything I'm just helping

someone out of a jam is it rude to

suggest that someone is irrelevant it's

always irrelevant it's always a woman

it's always got a problem that only you

can solve the ballerina with a crack in

her kneecap is too neat and she was not

a ballerina so it was an ice skater

whoever she was the point is she had a

broken wing about that that painted that

thought she was gone color was paint was

blocked yeah well it was gadget I mean

you didn't write a note Wow is this like

meeting fucking a baseball game what

guys ice skating was Tania's life's work

what could she do with our legs yeah

well what about your life's work I know

what - getting it I do not use

involvements with women to avoid writing

the Sheila Sandusky this is Mel Gorski

pleasure

oh me too I'm still sort of reeling from

this afternoon the private lessons

you're giving me I swear they've already

changed my life

a little peculiar no well yes if you

want I'd sit at your feet if you'd let

me I mean that okay I'll tell the chimp

professor that I have other commitments

there's another big deal

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give me

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time to go no you're wonderful with with

Michael you you are oh thanks um this is

ridiculous I've enjoyed this experience

okay I see tomorrow sorry no you're

right Mars wilderness observation day

I'll we go to whistlers region I'll see

you Sunday

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brings the whistle is rich I'm serving

the effects of repression in the wild

but we come here every Saturday

oh no kidding no is if somebody told me

this would be a perfect isolated spot to

get some work done oh I mean then I mean

we can go Michael oh no no no stay

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okay so 1932 ah dr. whoopee I invented

what he called a simple minute see the

chimpanzees would pull a lever and get

paid in poker chips and this this is the

each implement Oh

Richard let's shift back drink water now

should provide piggyback ride and doctor

with shoulder no blue chip with my

grapes grapes and one day one of the

chimps was merrily feeding her blue

chips into the machine waiting for

grapes then what do you think I don't

know what to think gonna give you your

grapes

maybe sure you gave her a live rat boy

can't even begin to imagine she grabbed

a pile of yellow chips she scrambled

away from the rats

she took a flying leap on dr. woof

shoulder you see she just really needed

to escape she was willing to pay for it

that's creative use of language well

money talks

exactly nope did you hear of sugar blues

and actually I can't really prove that

Michael is is creative with languages

that tune of the chin boom enemy he

hasn't really invented his own

combinations yet that's what I'm hoping

I've just landed on two whole months

until the site visit I'm confident we'll

do it Michael Michael no oh can you swim

no no Michael stay all right

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it's not necessary everything is under

control now really please oh he's not

going anywhere

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what are you looking at hey thanks for

walking me home from school do you want

me to help you with that homework again

yeah

Oh

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Derek my ex came to visit last night

thought he'd move yourself right back in

I kicked him out but good oh oh listen I

hope you don't mind I told Cleo to walk

home with you for a few days no no of

course not

look is there anything I can do the

little police or something I this is

this is I tell you pizza it might be a

coke and what someone else um let me get

a pencil okay Alex Tyler do you think

that there's any chemical basis for

attraction between specific pairs of

animals beg pardon chemical attraction

I mean animals or sets the same human

beings uh well who otherwise what who

aren't obvious mating pairs um well

let's see certainly I mean we know that

physiological data correlates chemically

based autonomic reflexes with the

presence of pleasurable affective

stimuli in the subjects proximate

environment

pulse rate rate of respiration and

perspiration which is a temperature

regulating system of the organism first

appearing evolutionarily in the lower

mammals but reaching its fullest

complexity and refinement and man-woman

ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny right

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fine I'm making a fool of myself

how one moment one impulsive moment in a

pond

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did you get my shoes

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just wants to be alone right

he said that

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hi mark stop buying dinner come on in

it's it's just business

yeah business manner tomorrow we can

discuss it tomorrow oh you should ask I

came by thank you let's drink drink

and I could do with a drink myself oh

excuse me I I can't talk to both of you

at once well I understand the situation

now perfectly oh what's this

it's Michael Michael Michael Michael

hey did you see that they put his

picture in the human pile he often makes

that mistake

wait a minute are you really listening

to him he thinks he's one of azam having

an identity crisis yeah and we have a

deadline we're facing here can we get

back to work

fine yes let's work my all needs I don't

know what that means

he called you a bug who's this tell me

good there you see Michael you knew it

was you all along he just has a

sensitive just call me Mike I did not

look I did not I did not hit my god

you're sensitive today I can't write and

I couldn't write so may I come in please

Oh Michael's not here Alex

I didn't come here to see Michael well

I'm preparing Michael's dinner and I'm

sure you have dinner waiting for you

someplace else

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I sweetheart have a date for lunch and

to knock I can't you see that I'm on a

roll here sure

sorry don't just stand here sing to me

anymore

yes know what compounds you problem

you're lonely poor ski it's the West

it's all about space loneliness well I

want to be I came here to be loved

you see that's what I'm trying to

express in this piece I'm working on

sometimes I feel if I could ever be a

piece truly left alone there are musical

worlds uncharted space long wings about

the American dream

doesn't make myself clear to her I mean

she's got a commitment I've got a crowd

I want to help her with Michael I can't

afford to diffuse my focus I mean that

simple complex

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that was very yeah I think we really

making some progress here it's starting

to sound like something okay well if you

don't want to give you private lessons

at your house what about a mother sorry

Sheila I have to make a choice between

the symphony that I cannot write and

your enthusiasm for music now surely you

understand please sorry there's some

aside I really have something I have to

tell you well how could you how could

you what look I'd rather not talk about

it this is crazy look I've got another

commitment I know I'd rather not discuss

it well I'm just not sure you understand

I feel pulled in different directions

and very fun believe me I understand

perfectly

I've I've been in this situation before

oh yeah what's nothing all the time I

know I'm not the only person in the

world with other to commit it just

doesn't happen all the time it happened

once briefly your love obviously friends

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look look at that you play Oh

no well well Michael does well it was my

mother's and I couldn't I couldn't bear

to part with it so I I suppose it's

silly considering limited space

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that's beautiful

yeah you do no no spark

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listen fortissimo beam which is the

dominance of the key of E minor of

Olson's did you hear that I mean it it

just took six bars six bars to grow it

back to the original home key of C major

which is not only brilliant will this

hang on the final I'm sorry what will

this be on the final final it's three

months away so so then what's our

assignment well you can review the

Mozart and the list I guess oh I I

didn't get a list the sonata in D minor

dorkface

get down

down

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what happened yesterday was a terrible

mistake must be the pressure of the

strain am I making myself clear

communicating well I'm really relieved

that we understand each other

aren't you sure I am well I'll pick

Michael up at 6:00 we have a lot of work

to do no no no wait a minute here would

you please get off

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cornball leo

that was concealed

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would you pass the Bachman

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Dorsky

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whoa-oh-aah that's what you called the

overture elicits very lusty you know

it's almost muscular you hated it

no no you know me I'm a little

old-fashioned I like a little melodies

yeah sure

there's a bad time for me right now well

you know it's a pretty complex concept

then you're hearing it out of context

come to my unveiling and then you can

experience the total peace and it's a

physical environment this is just a

teaser Hey

oh I'm glad you like the peace kid or

anything like that in my life

well do you think Li what's she doing

that's sign language that's bad

where'd you learn how to do that is she

saying something where's Michael

honey are you trying to talk hi Tyler

SELEX enger' she's got a class how about

Michael

look at that

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Michael where's the ball

where is the ball in the chest get me

the chest

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I have a right to be of course now

listen to this mic you tell me what is

going on here yes you're contaminating

my experiment so you can't just bring it

just filed in here you're you're you're

throwing off my data you serious sue I

am a trying to conduct originally

controlled replicatable experiments

Richard all I have gathering fundamental

information on I'm trying to put

together a substantial corpus of

utterances just being English yes please

leave work focus I've got a very deep

dark old mill coal mine

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solution is dealing with the problem you

know in the Mozart would you say that

Punto Darko's soul put a cello or what

Michael yes tree this morning Oh

Michaels it it's it's very unusual for a

chimpanzee to request some but not in

their immediate environment I guess I

should be flattered to be missed

whatever it was I think I overreacted I

think I think Michael would like you to

come back to work with him again did did

Michael say anything else see the site

committee comes tomorrow and and I need

Blaise and Tyler to help me finish

compiling my data analysis and we're not

really ready gotta be kidding well I

thought now that everything was was

clarified between us I thought maybe I

can't just leave him with a stranger

it's only for tonight

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okay for tonight

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you wanna play you play okay crazy about

the country west about a banana break

only two feet tomorrow you gotta believe

me

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I don't believe this right before the

site visit if I hear so much as one

sneeze I called the lab two hours ago

you weren't there yeah we went to the

movies picked up a couple of girls hm

other do real animals right Mike he's

not a toy you know

well he's home safe and sound isn't he

might want to give it a rest oh well

it's just that the fate of this project

and my future in scientific

investigation and Michael's whole

existence depend on our performance

tomorrow yeah you better get some sleep

oh why should I expect you to understand

you obviously have other more important

things on your mind

haha oh you know what I've got on my

mind I mean you you have never even

bothered to ask you know the only one

you communicate with around here is that

chimpanzee I don't have to ask you

flaunt it what you can put your shirt

back on I'm not interested

you know Alex you've really got your

head screwed on sideways just go you

make it easy you be good good hug Alex

he's Michael Michael don't be nervous

particularly the role of elementary

pragmatic routines in the clustering of

communicative contents which we will

demonstrate with Michael now in the

adjoining lab light box opens box of

course this is not part of the formal

presentation

oh hi yes Alex tur what would you put on

the ASF people I know it's not over yet

I know what the part that is over Tyler

had to go

we were brilliant yeah I'm quite certain

that we will emerge victorious oh that's

that's that's terrific

dr. Briscoe should be in conference for

another hour maybe two Michael you what

cut Michael Michael

you what Michael come here now you come

here I think he's trying to tell her

something like you be good you be good

he's very distracted he's not focusing

how do you read written Burke's paper

correlation between focus and rapid eye

movement this month science I saw mitten

Berg at the cognitive learning

convention in Dallas no this year's

conventions in Kansas City what happened

to Vegas he left his wife and ran off

with a 20 year old grad student in Poli

Sci she's disgusting I mean Poli Sci

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show me

sweet baby drink

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feels

oh my god Michael you know what you just

did you just invented a word do you know

what he just did he invented a word a

three word combination all by himself

out of three words he already knew sweet

baby

drink milk forget it well is it possible

to replicate that combination yes I'm

sure we don't like to see it again

Michael what's this what names this tell

me what's this what name this he's

Restless he's he's already been working

for over 45 minutes he formed the word

repeatedly just a minute ago you saw him

I'm sorry we must have missed that part

Ellis he did do it yes yes but what's it

Michael put that back in the box put it

back in the box

give it to me give it to me bad you bad

I don't love you

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look Alex

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never sleeps never needs a vacation

virtually eliminates the possibility of

humans now let me show you this beauty

right here this this is the Rolls Royce

of operant conditioning models state of

the art a museum-quality if I had that

chimp I could show you variations that

would positively curl your hair

hold on

she did huh

well yes certainly she said so

I can't let body I likes always leave a

little goodbye get for clear

still works numbers about this place I

know that your friends hey that's pretty

much true huh I never had a friend who

the guy before I'm playing a boyfriend

butter friend friend well it's making

nice little vibrating for me what were

you Austin Oh field trip with Cleo

school

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oh really

completely contrary to doctor Bristow's

methodology I really must insist she

please machine lose you'll get the hang

of it soon enough

that's believe me in a couple of months

this computer is going to be his best

friend don't be so dramatic

come on leave him alone he likes it he's

just getting used to it now don't add

Lexi's my laboratory in the first place

it's not your lab and that's not your

chip

we'll just see whose property is we'll

just see that's my

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no I have to close I can't wait

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on the contrary when they were Cinda the

McArthur genius was a wonderful moment

because it means a continent artists

change they change their mind about me

because what I had done was not static a

Mathias you are a true buddy listen can

I get you some wine

sure enjoy the show later just titillate

your sense of fun and adventure

Michael what is this place secrets lost

the brand you need big dr. Parrish

Alex oh no this piece of symbolism that

is my monkey which way

Oh down that passageway into your left

no maybe you're right

that's the Nexus of the entire political

spectrum talked there's nothing for us

to talk about besides how would we know

how to talk to chimpanzee I'm sorry that

was a stupid thing to be say you do a

torture I I'm torturing you I I think

you're confused about who the victim is

you yes I got the job

hoots you should wait come on for my

musical life into shreds for you in your

chin Oh what about your married life you

bring your wife and your child into my

lab we'll say I'm torturing you my

married life I thought you were

interested in my work I would say yeah

that's the main dish that's more or less

a little side dish for you what you're

really interested in is a little

extramarital hoochie coochie coochie

dog don't change the Sun so you really

think you're pretty clever don't you I

saw you well I don't have a wife well

whatever you call it I'm not that either

you're not no

Oh God we need to have a talk but I mean

I mean a real or real talk

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I'm not going to leave here until we do

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stay very still don't let you have Risto

never be a scientist you're too damn

emotional and violence perfect

come on get up Lord we're scholars

aren't you tell them to stop now you're

so smart you tired come on well you you

you go away you go away

you understand every word that I'm

saying I know that yourself your head at

the psychology department you'll leave

me alone

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Michael time

interspecies communication sweet baby

drink milk

she's talking to him and she play out on

him talk to me

you're talking running

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that's enough evidence for me

maybe we ought to reconsider I miss us

to give them money

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beautiful I wrote it

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really

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