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** "Adelaide's Lament" is an example of Crowning Music of Funny.
** The following sequence:
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'''Benny Southstreet:''' This doll has captured my attention.
'''Sarah:''' Let us give you the strength to ''stop'' your drinking, to ''stop'' your gambling!
'''Benny Southstreet:''' She has lost me. }}
** And later:
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'''Sky:''' How dare ''you'' misquote the Bible! }}
** Adelaide and Nathan discussing their relationship, and the lies Adelaide's been telling her mother about it:
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'''Adelaide:''' Nathan, after fourteen years it's already too late to be 'sooner', and if it gets much later, soon it'll be too late to even be 'later'. Besides, I don't know what to do anymore about Mother.
'''Nathan:''' Mother? What about your mother?
'''Adelaide:''' There is something I haven't told you ... but my mother, back in Rhode Island, she thinks that we're ... that we're already married.
'''Nathan:''' How could she think such a thing?
'''Adelaide:''' Maybe because I wrote to her that we were already married.
'''Nathan:''' That would make her think so.
'''Adelaide:''' Well, in Rhode Island, people do not ''stay'' engaged for fourteen years, they ''get married''!
'''Nathan:''' So how come it's such a small state?
'''Adelaide:''' Futhermore, after about two years ... after about two years, we -
'''Nathan:''' We got a divorce?
'''Adelaide:''' We had a baby.
'''Nathan:''' You wrote your mother we had a ''baby''?
'''Adelaide:''' Well, I ''had'' to, Nathan. Mother kept after me and after me and finally I just ran out of excuses.
'''Nathan:''' What type of baby was it?
'''Adelaide:''' It was a boy. I named it after you, Nathan.
'''Nathan:''' Thank you.
'''Adelaide:''' You're welcome.
'''Nathan:''' So tell me, what has Nathan Junior been up to all these years?
'''Adelaide:''' Well, right now he's in boarding school. As a matter of fact, I wrote Mother that he won the football game last Saturday.
'''Nathan:''' Wish I'd had a bet on it.
'''Adelaide:''' But Nathan ... That isn't all.
'''Nathan:''' You're not going to say we also have an Adelaide Junior?
'''Adelaide:''' ... All these years, Nathan. Mother believes in big families, and, and we had such an early start.
'''Nathan:''' Just give me the grand total.
'''Adelaide:''' ... Five.
'''Nathan:''' Adelaide! How could you do this to a nice old broad like your mother?! }}
** Nathan and his buddies are listing possible places to hold the craps game:
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Latest revision as of 11:26, 7 August 2014
- Crowning Moment of Funny:
- "These dice ain't got no spots on them--they're blank!" "I had the spots removed for good luck, but I remember where the spots formerly were."
- "I'm REALLY sorry."
- "I will add nothin' to what Sky said, except to say that there are many here, upon who, if they get outta line, I would squeal with pleasure."
- "Adelaide's Lament" is an example of Crowning Music of Funny.
- The following sequence:
Sarah: You who drink too much, you who gamble at cards and dice and horse racing. Let us help you not to lose your money in gambling dens and bookie joints. |
- And later:
Sarah: This may not be a church, but it is a mission! How dare you blaspheme! |
- Adelaide and Nathan discussing their relationship, and the lies Adelaide's been telling her mother about it:
Nathan: Of course we'll get married, sooner or later. |
- Nathan and his buddies are listing possible places to hold the craps game:
Nathan: And things being how they are, the back of the police station is out! |