The Unknown - A Conversation About Alonzo's Health Change
Nanon Zanzi: [embraces Alonzo when he returns from being away at the hospital]
You are thinner, Alonzo! Have you been sick?
Alonzo the Armless:
No not sick... but I have lost some flesh.
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The Unknown - Conflicted Emotions in a Relationship
Malabar the Mighty:
See, Nanon! Eyes that adore you... hands that long to caress you... and strength to protect you! Why do you always draw away from me?
Nanon Zanzi:
Why isn't he different from other men! Why doesn't he keep his hands off me? Hands! Men's hands! How I hate them! Men! The beasts! God would show wisdom if he took the hands from all of them! Forgive me, Alonzo... I did not mean you. You are the one man I can come to without fear.
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The Unknown - Fear of Touch and Brute Strength
Nanon Zanzi:
You are right, Alonzo... brute strength does not mean everything to all women. Alonzo, all my life men have tried to put their beastly hands on me... to paw over me. I have grown so that I shrink with fear when any man even touches me.
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Strait-Jacket - Childhood Rhymes and Dark Revelations
First little girl:
Lucy Harbin took an axe, gave her husband forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave his girlfriend forty one.
Carol Harbin: [Lucy storms out to find two girls playing jump rope]
What is it, Mother?
Lucy Harbin:
I heard them...
First little girl:
London bridge is falling down, falling down, London bridge is falling down, my fair lady.
Carol Harbin:
It's just a nursery rhyme, mother.
Second little girl:
Take the key and lock her up, lock her up, lock her up, take the key and lock her up, my fair lady.
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