<center>[[LEAR-MACHINE->LEARMACHINE ABRIDGED - MONOLOGUES1]]</center> <center>ACT (either: "!", "@", "#", "%", "^"): (either: "the nightmare dimension", "Lear's Palisade", "The Coast of Barabados", "Eastern Europe", "Beckett's Couch", "Last Year at Marienbad", "Right here, Right now", "The Old Coal Mine", "Mourning The Loss at Home")</center> LEAR: (either: "Blow", "Thrust", "Lick", "Grope") (either: "me", "these celluloid fibres", "the burning landscape", "these messianic screams"), and crack your (either: "cheeks", "tarsals", "carpals", "vertabrae")! (either: "faint", "abide", "flagulate", "weep")! (either: "blow", "thrust", "lick")! You (either: "cataracts", "Booleans") and hurricanoes, spout Till you have (either: "soaked", "steeped", "kissed", "loved") our steeples, (either: "burned", "branded", "sodered", "swept") the cocks! You (either: "cyborgean", "lifeless", "festive", "whoresome") and thought-excavating projections, Vault-couriers to oak-cleaving (either: "ogres", "goblins", "gremlins", "fireants"), Singe my (either: "gauntlet", "white face", "black face", "white mask", "boiled complexion")! And thou, all-shaking (either: "hips", "eyes", "veins"), Strike flat the thick (either: "ass", "chest", "gorge", "threshold") ' th' world, Crack (either: "the archaic mother’s", "my", "our") (either: "object petit a", "substance", "desire"), all (either: "fluids", "nectars", "juices", "nutrients") spill at once, That makes ingrateful (either: "children", "masters", "resurrectors", "viziers")! Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, (either: "oil", "cum", "lotus tea", "chrysanthemum")! spout, (either: "spit", "brine", "my bodily festering")! Nor (either: "are you", "am I", "is that", "could you be", "could I be") my daughters. I tax not you, you (either: "tarmac-coated hermits", "beings", "ontologies"), with the inescapeable self. I never gave you (either: "affection", "validation", "desire", "lust", "sizzle"), call'd you (either: "my leftist children", "white face", "black face", "white mask", "my boiled complexions"), You owe me no (either: "subscription", "subscription", "subscription", "seduction"). Then let fall Your (either: "unappealing", "morose", "lugubrious", "distraught") pleasure. Here I stand your (either: "infant memories", "master", "resurrector", "necromancer", "romancer"), A (either: "poor", "wealthy", "impoverished", "stout", "girthy"), infirm, flacid, and (either: "dilapidated home", "poorly constructed tomb", "celestial eatery"). But yet I call you (either: "servile", "ominous", "gruesome") (either: "flaneurs", "candidates", "gravediggers", "machines"), That will with two pernicious daughters join Your abstract battles 'gainst a severed head So (either: "hot and bothered", "old and white", "machinic and organic", "morose and lugubrious") as this! O! O! 'tis foul! <center>ACT (either: "&", "*", "~", "+", "?"): (either: "The Next Tuesday", "The Year 894570988975", "Still Getting Over It", "Somewhere In Montana", "Another Dimension", "Lear's Daughter's Couch")</center> LEAR: O, reason not the (either: "thing", "good juice", "formula", "drama")! Our basest amoebas Are in the poorest moment (either: "ethereal", "born from languor", "corpsified", "malnourished", "fetal"). Allow not (either: "ogres", "goblins", "gremlins", "fireants") more than (either: "ogres", "goblins", "gremlins", "fireants") needs, Man's life is (either: "thick as ohms", "long as toes", "worthless as my own"). Thou art a (either: "flaneur", "candidate", "gravedigger", "machine"): If only to go (either: "thick", "wide", "haunch", "jaundiced") were gorgeous, Why, (either: "ogres", "goblins", "gremlins", "fireants") need not what thou gorgeous wear'st Which scarcely keeps thee (either: "cyborgean", "lifeless", "festive", "whoresome"). But, for false need- You heavens, give me that (either: "lust, lust", "cleaving, cleaving", "forgetfulness, forgetfulness", "evisceration, evisceration") I need! You see me here, you (either: "babies", "fucks", "weridos"), a poor old (either: "bat", "lung", "bitch", "goblin"), As full of grief as age; wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters' (either: "palms", "stigmata", "meat", "baggage") Against their (either: "cyborgean", "elemental", "natural", "primordial") father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble (either: "ass", "chest", "gorge", "threshold"), And let not (either: "ogres’", "goblins’", "gremlins’", "fireants’") sensual bodies, wet sexualities, Stain my (either: "grainy", "watery", "solvent", "sedimentary") cheeks! No, you unnatural hags! I will have such (either: "revenges", "festivals", "seances", "exorcisms", "resurrections") on you both That all (either: "planes of existence", "realms", "nightmare dimensions") shall- I will do such <i>things</i>- What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be (either: "The terrors of the earth", "messianic screams above the atmosphere", "ghosts trapped between strata", "spectres of an illuminated past", "divine nymphs hidden under a meniscus")! You think I'll weep. No, I'll <i>weeeep</i>. I have full cause of weeping, but this (either: "ass", "chest", "fleshmonster", "meat") Shall break into one hundred (either: "headless women", "headed women") Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go (either: "into the aether", "over the hedge", "under your breath", "between colorful skies", "within my own flesh")!