Category: psychologue
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Sex 411: Shylock’s Home
Earnest: (pensively) Something is still not right. / Reflection: Clearly all of us have to work together to pick up the full signal. / Klein: In a specific pattern. / Tube: But which of us goes where? / Which: (smiling as she rolls up her sleeves and comes over) I…
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Hello, Keeper (Unhidden Difficult Parts)
I stand up and look. / Keeper is an intimidating 14-year old, with her mother’s fierce, intelligent eyes. / She’s staring at me suspiciously, with her hands on her hips. / I take a Moment…
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Hello, Trauma (Hidden Difficult Parts)
Then I realize he is more likely to show up — or at least I am more likely to notice him — when I am stressed, frustrated, or stuck. / That’s when I know his name.
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Tick the Watchdog (Modern Difficult Parts)
Tick: What do you want? / Earnest: Ah, I believe you represent the “modern” part of me that is obsessed with time and efficiency, as opposed to the traditional values of relationship and conformity.
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Sex 410: Dis-Engaged
Klein: Do your worst, foul vixen! Strike us dead this instant, lest we destroy this castle and you with it! // Earnest: Whoa, Klein. No need to get dark so fast. // Nother: Klein… is that… you?
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Sex 409: Bar-Bie-Barians
My evil sister! A being so twisted and devious, brave men faint in her presence. You are marching to your doom! I will have nothing to do with this. Farewell!
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Sex 408: Geni-All-OG
Resumed from Sex 407A: Anxiety on the Stage Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A plane, sphere, Klein bottle, and tube walk into a Parallel Bar… but never meet! Get it? No? Anyway, this is what happens next…
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Sex 407A: Anxiety on the Stage
Ang: He is called “trauma.” Earnest met Trauma when young. Not know what to do with him. Sent down here with rest of us. / Audience boos. Ang bristles. / Ang: Not his fault. Our job. Stay hidden so Earnest can function.
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Sex 407: Which Witch (Gut Fight)
Raven would make me strong. / Blanche wise. / Ember happy. / Which would I prefer? / Which…
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Forgiving Pharisees (More Difficult Parts)
The Earnest Redeemer: Exactly. The other disciples _want_ to protect Him, but between you and me they’d be useless against armed guards. And deep down they know it. You’d actually have a fighting chance of distracting them long enough for Jesus to escape / Simon the Zealot. If that’s what…
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Psychologue: Sweet Baby James
James: Wait… I know that look. You are trying to find a way to tell me a painful truth I don’t want to accept!
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Sex 406: Oz Together Now
Klein. That’s awesome! Let me just grab my oil can and we can hit the road [rushes off] / Earnest. [to Reflection] Why would he need oil? He is just made up of mathematical abstractions. / Reflection. [shh] Not so loud. You’ll hurt his feelings. / E. Feelings? He hates…
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Hello, Resentment (The Difficult Parts)
“I need you to be who **we** are. That is the only way anything will ever get better.” — Resentment
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Young and UG: HeartSync DeBrief
3:00 PM, Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 The scene is a forest clearing by moonlight.A lonely hut sits in the middle.All is silent. A small boy slowly creeps out of the woods towards the hut.He avoids the door, but scratches softly near the window. Young Ernie: [whispering] Ug! Ug, are you…
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Sex 404: What The Deuce?
You are used to thinking of war as the opposite of peace. / But I know that they are two sides of the same coins. / Twins, if you will…
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Sex 403: Not the Bees
I see an elderly yet somehow ageless woman / Smiling maternally at the bees as they go about their business. / Without thinking I blurt out… / The Earnest Redeemer: Don’t trust them! They will fail you. They won’t live long enough to fulfill their purpose!
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Sex 402: Big Sir
Father Time: You’re not listening. And even if you were, Sex is not a thing you can comprehend with words. It must be experienced. Stop talking. Look!
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Sex 401: Love and War
The Earnest Redeemer: Okay. That, right there. Specifically, there’s two distinct dimensions of Sex I don’t know how to reconcile. 1. Love (indicating Aphrodite) seems inherently symmetric. Sex as mutual pleasure, mutual consent, mutual joy to build the long-term parental partnerships undergirding a family. 2. War (glancing at Ares) is…
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Gut Check, Inc.
I find myself on another plane of existence. Talking to some sort of a stomach thing. GutBrain: I am not some mere “thing.” I am a highly-evolved neural complex. Far older than you, you neo-cortical whippersnapper!
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Cheapskate, Inc.
Earnest: Whaddya mean? Aren’t you the persona that flails me when I waste food, time, or money? / Cheapskate: No, sir! I’m just pointing things out. I’m the accountant. Not the enforcer. / Earnest: Um, then who… / Cheapskate: Meet Guido. / [Hat tip to Myth Inc. Link]
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