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Oh?
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In the lobby in Caesars Palace
in Las Vegas.
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It's not exactly a gallery,
it's more a concession.
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- Paintings of clowns on black velvet?
- That's right, junk.
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Oh, it's pure junk, but people like it. They
get a kick out of it. He does very nicely.
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- Pearl collects African art.
- Oh. Oh, I love black ebony.
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I own some statues.
Actually, they're from Trinidad.
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Oh, I love those real primitive statues
with the big hips and the big breasts.
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Oh, I even have some voodoo
masks. I believe in that stuff.
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I could tell your fortune,
but I need cards. Later, maybe.
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This couple we met were raving about it,
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so I cabled from the office to get tickets.
I'm glad I did. It was fabulous.
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We thought it was interesting.
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But depressing as hell. It was
pessimistic to the point of futility.
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Fashionable pessimism
is all the rage nowadays.
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When they sentenced those Algerians
to death, I thought it was a good ending.
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You call that fashionable,
but it's hard to argue
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that in the face of death,
life loses real meaning.
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- It is?
- Well, I can't argue it succinctly,
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but if you've read Socrates or Buddha,
Schopenhauer, even Ecclestiastes,
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they're very convincing.
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Well, they should know.
I don't read that much.
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What struck me was the way the
terrorists only killed if they had to.
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Never wantonly, just if they
had to, to achieve their aims.
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I was very moved when that Algerian boy
said he killed in the name of freedom.
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- It gave me chills.
- It's killing for an abstraction.
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Why? You value the life of a single person
over the lives of thousands of others?
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I don't know. I mean, who are those
thousands? It's another abstraction.
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To me, the conflict over
the giving of the information
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between the French doctor and the
Algerian was the best part of the play.
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I know. The writer argued both sides so
brilliantly you didn't know who was right.
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I didn't get that. I mean,
to me, it wasn't such a big deal.
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One guy was a squealer.
I liked the guy that wasn't.