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Dogville was in the Rocky Mountains
in the US of A.
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Up here where the road came to its
definiteve end near the entrance to the old,
abandoned silver mine.
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The residents of Dogville were good,
honest folks and they liked their township.
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And while a sentimental soul from the East Coast
had once dubbed their main street ELM STREET,
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though no elm tree had ever
cast its shadow in Dogville,
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they saw no reason to change anything.
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Most of the buildings were pretty wretched;
more like shacks; frankly.
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The house in which Tome lived
was the best, though,
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and in good times might almost
have passed for presentable.
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That afternoon the radio was playing softly,
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for in his dotage Thomas Edison Senior
had developed a weakness for music of the lighter kind.
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[Radio Presenter] Ladies and Gentlemen...
the President of the United States...
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Tom, do me a favor, will you?
The radio!?
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Just because the music's over and
you might risk hearing something useful?
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I thought that's why we have the radio...
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Well, I need a rest, as you know.
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Mock me if you like.
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[Narrator] Tom's father had been a doctor
and now received a modest pension,
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so it was no great disaster for Tom
to drift about not doing anything in particular.
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Tom was a writer.
...at any rate by his own lights.
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Oh, his output as committed to paper
was so far limited to the words "great" and "small",