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By Jack Joseph Smith

ug You megt the jagg off in Chicago, right? That's right Dandy, and now were both here in Mount Lebanon to bring theatre into your hearts’ And ‘he loves niggers, right? Negro's; O'Dandy And your going to play his part? That's right Dandy; He he, you fucking jagé offS Why didn't you go to school’ in Chicago Michael? Because you couldn't get inj’ 5 No, Dandy, I just couldn't get away from good old Mount Lebanons Anyway we recently found out, that we botli are going to get paid for ity so we won't have to study its: You brought that ass hole with yous He he two jage offs, I thought he was a writer? - He is a-writer and a director; I jumped up and down and waved my hands saying, the scene begins; I-was going to i get what little realization I could, communicated between O'Dendy and I,. before he got me any further into his mischiefs a O'Neill speaks; I was just wondering O'Dandy, Here you are after two streight days \ of drinking, and your mind is still in good enough working ordéi to-win a game of nental chess, against a good chess players Yet not one week agOs t ean you on the verge‘of killing a man in a tavern, just because he called you the kings Go ahead Dandy, your turn to speaks And don't f1ub your lines, Can't you see the audience is on the edge of their chairss Ass holes Go ahead’ Dandy He was talking to louds

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A drunken bit of theater unfolds as Michael tries to stage O'Dandy against the absent O'Neill from Chicago, turning chess, race talk, writing, acting, and tavern violence into a jeering performance for the picnic crowd.

The whole exchange treats art as one more way to needle, expose, and keep control of the room. Even in the rough OCR, the important thing is clear: Michael is trying to turn O'Dandy's chaos into a scene before O'Dandy drags him deeper into it.


Claude

The scene inside the scene: O'Dandy is made to confess that the man in the tavern got his face ripped for calling him the king because he said it like he didn't mean it — the class resentment pulled out as stage confession.