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No sign of damage or = Very nice set of Your husband is deformity, organs, Mrs. Har potent, you say; yo Docron, (Surprised she knows.) Have you been xr, No, Doctor, (Pause. Comes away, peels off a disposable glove into wastebasket.) Well you ean probably work ives what a post-coital test, involves ‘or eleventh day of your next — (CUT LIGHT. In darkness, loud ALARM on speakers, Screen fully drawn. Sounds of shifting. CUT ALARM.) Anwe. (Yawning, unseen be} so early? iwning, unseen there.) Specimen, love. d screen.) God, what Coun. Specimen. We of our mixture, F Cou. moving.) Mouth like a bloody Trot 03 (Siow DIM GLOW as of electric barfire beyond sereen: form of Coun before it. LOUD SPEAKERS:. urine trickling into water; rip, scuff of tissue paper; chain pulled.) 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He takes out of pocket a tiny glass or plastic container—two inches deep at most, neck barely an inch across, with blank label. He looks up from this to us, The building site sounds worry him. And an anatomical problem: how to address an erection lo this ludicrous jar? With simp precise gestures he sketches one or two ways that eccur to him, Impossible. A third way. Even more absurd, He catches our eye, goes to sil on chair near curtain, plays for time, Has thought: takes out pencil stub, writes on label. Shows ua:) My name. Against confusion. (Sits, drums fingers. Another idea: puts jar on floor, all but gets down onto all fours above it- A BUILDER's VOICE calling someone above, out- side—Couts sharp back on his chair again, jar in IN CLINIC SOUNDS: trolleys tn corridors, someone on intercom calling for a doctor. Ase iN sees he must make a reat effort. He brings chair down, drops trousers, turns back on wus, Over shoulder, to us:) What: are yous expectin’ to see, then? (Sits. 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Repeat. SOUNDS of airport corridor, many people trooping. FADE AIR- CRAFT SOUNDS, Two CAR DOORS SLAM: SOUND of IGNITION, car pulling away. UP FAINT- SP LIGHT. Coun, Axw sit as in van, he passenger in coat, she with minimal mime perhaps false szering heel necessari Con. the he Someone yomb, keep away.? r the tensi : T began to wonder to say, only the bombs have made me 1 i a ASHES 59 (Searches self deeply for these words:) vy. ly of things (This last word he almost fails to find. Seif- satisfaction, no. Tries again.) 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