S H O W   2 : G U E S T   I S   H A N N A



  Pangloss says, "okay..."
  Pangloss says, "We would like to welcome you all here to our Here's
 Pangloss show."
  Pangloss says, "it is, as you must know by now, an issues-based show,
 whichfore, we deal straight on with "issues'"
  ........Shhhhh.........
  Pangloss says, "We are not certain precisely which issues should be dealt
 with, but as this show as well, is young as dirt, we plug forward like our
 forefingers infront of us and essay to learn...that is our mission statement."
  Pangloss says, "Also please keep your gaping faceholes closed while I
 introduce the guest."
  yawn
  Pangloss says, "Tonight's guest is hanna."
  Pangloss says, "our textturd friend."
  Pangloss [to hanna]: hanna can you please say hello?
  Caille_Bot . o O ( *groan* )
  hanna says, "hello"
  hanna smiles winningly 
  Pangloss [to hanna]: Please state the following: whether you prefer to
  exhale or inhale.
  hanna says, "inhale"
  If you keep up with this show, you will be served with legal papers
  tomorrow.
  Pangloss has forgotten our notes.
  Pangloss says, "We have forgotten our notes."
  You are a fraud, hanna.
  You are also a fraud, Pangloss
  Pangloss to the audience, Is it okay to extemporize?
  Pangloss says, "yes, that is correct."
  Why are you asking the audience for acquiescnece? You might as well have a
  rubber duck.
  Pangloss [to hanna]: Please state the following: The denouement or the
  beginning?
  Hanna-Barbara-TM-REG says, "I should be answering these questions, not
  this barbarian you have onstage!"
  Pangloss falls to the ground.
  Pangloss is never sure.
  Hanna-Barbara-TM-REG [to Caille_Bot]: Did you bring any tomatoes?
  Pangloss is merely trying, merely trying, in these bleak times, to hearken
  back to the angels.
  hanna says, "oh let me catch up please"
  Pangloss says, "They pull on my head...I can easily have you nextweek but
 we are all about courtesy here."
  hanna says, "i like the beginning best"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: We have heard as much...Please tell the studio
 audience about your experience with 'beginnings'?
  hanna says, "i am over my spell... i still get stage fright you know."
  Pangloss [to hanna]: How do you know when the beginning is over, for
 example?
 
 

  hanna says, "which beginnings?"
  Pangloss hands hanna some water.
  hanna says, "why, the beginning is over when it ends, of course!"
  Pangloss holds out our hands...you may choose the one on the left or the
 one on the right.
  Pangloss [to hanna]: is it true then, that you have made love with Rubens
 for no apparent reason?
  Pangloss says, "Please talk about perhaps, how that love affair began."
 hanna says, "no that is not true. i have made love to  others with no
  reason, but not rubens. i would never sink so low"
  hanna says, "there was never a love affair."
  Pangloss nods and writes down some important letters in our notepad.
  www.hanna.com has disconnected.
  The housekeeper arrives to cart www.hanna.com off to bed.
  Pangloss says, "Was I involved?"
  hanna says, "yes you were involved."
  hanna is horrified!
  Pangloss says, "Was I decent? Did I wake up early enough?"
  hanna says, "i don't want to talk about that now."
  Pangloss can't remember it.
  hanna says, "you were evil."
  Pangloss says, "Who was I then?"
  Pangloss inhales noisily.
  Pangloss says, "no."
  hanna says, "i was only to refer to you as 'boss' i don't know who you
 were"
  hanna says, "i don't know who you are"
  Pangloss says, "I have always been good. At least as concerns morals."
  hanna says, "do you know who you are"
  Pangloss says, "can you please tell me how it began?"
  hanna says, "you have morals, no."
  hanna says, "how what began"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: how your meaningless love affair began.
  Pangloss says, "And please don't lie. Please don't lie if I was in it."
  hanna says, "with you or with the other one?"
  hanna says, "oh i won't lie"
  Pangloss says, "Well, I should firstly ask if you were in love yourself."
  hanna says, "i blocked it out for the longest time but then i realized i
 had to face up to it..."
  hanna says, "no  i was not in love. i do not believe in love."
  Pangloss says, "And perhaps was experiencing the 'cognitive dissonance' of
 unrequited love."
  hanna says, "not the romantic kind of love, capital letter or not."
  Pangloss says, "WHy don't you believe in love?"
  Pangloss says, "That is what we all aspire to."
  hanna says, "i do not aspire to love like that"
  Caille_Bot [hanna-b]: no
  Pangloss says, "Then what sort of love breaks you? What sort of love do
 you aspire to?"
  hanna says, "i aspire to the impossible; i want to love myself."
  Pangloss says, "There is love without object..."
  Pangloss says, "That is one of the most profoundly rewarding types...you
 remain in a state of rigid desire."
  Pangloss says, "Did you mail a letter requesting as much?"
  hanna says, "i can't wait to get to that stage... i don't think i ever
 will, sadly."
  Pangloss says, "Why is that sad?"
  hanna says, "i want to have lots of orgasms"
  Pangloss ...
  Pangloss says, "There is plenty of room for that."
  hanna says, "yes. but i hear they are better if one is in love."
  Pangloss says, "Rapturous torrential orgasms....you can have that...but
 you can have that now. Why would you desire that for all eternity?"
  Pangloss says, "But if your desire is to love yourself?"
  hanna says, "yes i do desire it. but that is my problem.. i said i like
beginnnings... once i have what i want, it had ended... and i have to begin." 
  Pangloss says, "A constant state of beginnings then? Constantly recreating
 themselves?"
 
  
 

  hanna says, "what about my desire being to love myself? why else would i
 want to love myself if not to be in ecstacy."
  hanna says, "yes. are you of a differing opinion?"
  Pangloss says, "That is a non issue."
  Pangloss is not here.
  hanna says, "where are you?"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: that is not an issue either.
  Pangloss says, "it's not to say...it is before you can say it."
  hanna says, "what is the issue i have forgotten"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: Then are you present?
  hanna says, "i think i am more future"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: are you present and will you continue to be?
  Pangloss [to hanna]: How are you future?
  Pangloss [to hanna]: do you live among angels?
  hanna says, "i live with the demons"
  Pangloss says, "leather-crusted?"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: Diamond-collared?
  Pangloss ohs.
  hanna says, "no no none of them eat meat nor do they wear it"
  Pangloss bites our lip and notes something in our notebook.
  hanna says, "and materialism is a thing of the past, so there are no
 diamondss"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: demons you say?
  Pangloss [to hanna]: What sort of demons?
  hanna says, "yes horrid wonderful demons"
  Pangloss says, "Do they understand your love?"
  Pangloss says, "Do they understand your desire for self-love?"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: Are they *capable* of love?
  hanna says, "they are a bit on the shorter side, which is fine with me, i
 don't like towering beasts, they are superior to anyone i  know."
  hanna says, "they do not understand my love."
  Pangloss has known many superior beings who are not vertical in stature.
  hanna says, "they do not understand anyone's love. it does not exist for
 them."
  Pangloss says, "Desire?"
  Pangloss says, "Do they understand desire?"
  hanna says, "yes. desire is what fuels them. that is why they are demons."
  Pangloss says, "What do they desire?"
  hanna says, "they don't know. that is their one fault. they don't know."
  Pangloss says, "Do they desire love?"
  hanna says, "they would like to know."
  Pangloss says, "maybe they desire love and they don't know it?"
  hanna says, "maybe you are onto something..."
  Pangloss says to hang on while we get some props.
  Pangloss runs backstage.
  hanna says, "let me ask them about this... well, maybe not now. i don't
 want to explain love to them..."
  Pangloss comes out with a scythe and a ball of wax and a fan.
  hanna says, "oh if you are getting props i will take the time to ask."
  Pangloss says, "Which would you like?"
  hanna says, "the wax"
  Pangloss hands the wax to hannah.
  no h.
  hanna says, "these demons know what they want now! you have given them
 ..something.. not hope... "
  Pangloss says, "What do they want?"
  Pangloss says, "They don't want hope?"
  hanna says, "i think they were happier moping."
  Pangloss says, "They want wax?"
  hanna says, "they would like the fan"
  Pangloss says, "The demons want wax?"
  Pangloss says, "They want the wax and the fan?"
  Pangloss says, "Are they here right now?"
  hanna says, "the demons want the fan"
  hanna says, "i could try to channel one if you'd like."
  Pangloss rushes to the sides of the stage to look for the demons.
  hanna says, "they don't speak this language you know"
  Pangloss says, "they're not 'bad' demons are they? They are just desirous
 demons?"
  hanna says, "they are firghtfully shy and won't let you see them"
  hanna says, "the desire more than desire alone"
  hanna says, "give them the fan"
  Pangloss says, "*I* am shy too! I am trying so hard...so hard."
  Pangloss hands the fan to hanna.
  hanna says, "are you a demon perhaps?"
  Pangloss is not.
  hanna gives the fan to the demons
  Pangloss says, "That is a non-issue."
  Pangloss lives between the worlds where demons are possible.
  hanna says, "i believe you might be one of them."
  hanna says, "surely you know some. "
  Pangloss says, "Let's get back to the beginnings..."
  hanna says, "the demons say they are very happy with the fan"
  Pangloss says, "Have you seen Hannah these past years? As I remember it,
 you were claiming to know her."
  hanna says, "they thank you more graciously than i a feeble ... can
 articulate"
  hanna says, "i am her"
  Pangloss says, "Hannah is coming back."
  hanna says, "i am hanna i am here"
  hanna says, "and do please drop this h business"
  Pangloss knits our brow.
  Pangloss says, "You realize that we probably do not understand each other."
  hanna smiles winningly comfortingly faithfully
  Pangloss says, "Hannah owns this place and out there."
  hanna says, "yes yes i know"
  hanna says, "but she is a commie"
  Pangloss says, "Hannah is possessed of leather-crusted wings."
  hanna says, "she shares she does not own anything"
  Pangloss says, "perhaps you met Hannah on one of her visits?"
  hanna says, "nah, i dopn't wear leather anymore. that was years and years
 and decades and days and centuries and years ago"
  Pangloss says, "Maybe you would like to talk about when you met Hannah. Or
 when you first met G. or when you first sang to the sirens?"
  hanna says, "i formally introduced myself to myself yes."
  hanna says, "i sang with the Sirens. i was one of them, but i couldn't
 stand eating men. it is one thing to kill them, but to eat them? "
  Pangloss says, "Then perhaps you would like to talk about why you have
 this dissociative problem."
  hanna says, "which problem is that?"
  Pangloss nods.
  Pangloss says, "Well, first talk about killing/not eating men."
  Pangloss says, "Was it an aesthetic discrepancy? Or was it moral?"
  hanna says, "i do not like men for the most part they are too stupid to
 give me anything i cn't give myself"
  hanna says, "well, truthfully, they taste horribly!"
  Pangloss says, "ah."
  hanna says, "haven't you ever tasted a man before?"
  Pangloss says, "So...we might say that it was 'aesthetic'...or perhaps
 'culinary'?"
  hanna says, "it is the most horrible thing in the world. yes yes i admit i
 am selfish."
  Pangloss says, "Well, there is nothing to being selfish."
  
   

  Pangloss says, "You didn't mind killing them?"
  hanna says, "not at all.  they were happier that way, i think."
  hanna says, "i don't really care if they were happy or not"
  hanna says, "i was happier"
  Pangloss says, "You wanted to kill poetry? You wanted to kill Orpheus? Or
 was it poets in general?"
  hanna says, "that is what is important"
  hanna says, "orpheus is not a man"
  Pangloss says, "Happier?"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: let me see you hand.
  Pangloss says, "Please."
  hanna offers her hand trustingly
  Pangloss says, "You have callouses."
  Pangloss says, "Where did you get these callouses?"
  hanna says, "from walking my dog of course"
  hanna says, "he is bigger than me, and when he is on his leash, he pulls
 etc etc"
  hanna says, "he is not that much bigger, just terribly stronger"
  Pangloss says, "Why were the men happier before they were alive?"
  hanna says, "because they had the hope of a beginning"
  hanna says, "once they were alive, it was the end"
  Pangloss says, "Didn't they need the experience that this incarnation
 offered them? Do you think that it is your responsibility to offer them
 solace?"
  hanna is a firm nonbeliever in middles
  Pangloss nods.
  Pangloss says, "We understand."
  Pangloss nodding.
  hanna says, "back then i did not care to offer them much solace.. can you
 keep a secret?"
  Pangloss says, "it is not in my contract."
  hanna says, "silly you are supposed to say yes anyways"
  Pangloss says, "it is not in what I have agreed to."
  Pangloss says, "That is not honorable."
  hanna says, "what do you know of honour?"
  hanna says, "have you slept with achilles with hektor with agamemnon and "
  Pangloss spent several lifetimes at least, an 'honorable' person.
  Pangloss says, "And many more 'dishonorable'."
  hanna says, "which are you now?"
  Pangloss says, "One has to know 'honor' before one can be 'dishonorable'."
  Pangloss says, "Neither."
  Pangloss is only a servant.
  Pangloss bursting with love.
  hanna says, "well that is the best way to be. you can have hope for the
 beginning."
  ryan.schram@ writes to you something re(as)sembling himself . . . and
 himself re(as)sembling something . . . and . . .
  Pangloss holding of head to hands and fastening of collar to breast pocket.
  Pangloss [to hanna]: Hope for beginnings...who writes them then? 
  hanna says, "it does"
  hanna says, "time"
  hanna says, "time writes it all"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: You won't speak of beginnings...you only speak of
 hope for their existence.
  hanna says, "why, that is a beginning."
  ryan.schram@ presses gently the bum to the chair.
  Pangloss says, "Yes, it is your past. To speak of beginnings, to speak of
 such things. I will have to speak for everyone then if they won't."
  hanna says, "i have a hard time focusing, i am not trying to ignore the
 beginning, but if you were a bit more specific..."
  Pangloss bets e can find at least a few souls interested in beginnings.
  Pangloss throws our notebook down.
  hanna says, "i am interested in beginnings."
  Pangloss says, "before you weren't."
  hanna would you like me to get that for you?
  Pangloss says, "My poor addle-pated noggin."
  hanna says, "when wasn't i?"
  Pangloss throws ourselves to the ground...
  hanna says, "i have some advil if you'd like.. or maybe wormwood?"
  Pangloss crawls into the audience howling.
  Pangloss pulls a mirror out of ryan's back pocket.
  hanna chases after pangloss
  Pangloss holds the mirror up to hanna...."LOOK".
  Pangloss [to hanna]: look!
  Pangloss says, "please..."
  hanna says, "i am sorry i do not have my contacts in."
  Pangloss is not trying to be rude, forceful or witty.
  Guest_du_Jour teleports in.
  hanna says, "yes you are"
  Doppelganger emerges from the ether.
  Pangloss smashes the mirror to the ground.
  Pangloss says, "Well bugger that idea then..go sit back down."
  Guest_du_Jour says, "I've been trying to find you, schram."
  Pangloss [to hanna]: You won't talk about how you met G.
  hanna says, "i will if it will make you calm"
  Pangloss tells the guest to keep its gaping facehole shut.
  Pangloss [to hanna]: it's not about calm.
  hanna says, "what is it about?"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: it's about saving this world from the oblivion of
 forgetfulness.
 

  Pangloss says, "but realizing the imporantance of it."
  hanna says, "i will tell if you are so scared of failure i suppose"
  Pangloss says, "Forgetfulness."
  Pangloss says, "no...you see. We need failure."
  Pangloss says, "We want failure."
  Pangloss says, "We want nothing..."
  Pangloss says, "But that doesn't mean that we are not in a rigid state of
 desire. At all moments."
  hanna says, "it was when i was still a suburbanite, so was g. "
  Pangloss says, "oh?"
  Pangloss says, "Many years ago."
  hanna says, "i was alone one day walking aimlessly lonely"
  hanna says, "i am always lonely"
  hanna says, "yes a long time ago"
  ryan.schram@ waves to all.
  Pangloss says, "Before we even had a concrete concept of 'suburbanite'."
  ryan.schram@  is on the scene of writing a paper.
  Guest_du_Jour ku'upio meows.
  Guest_du_Jour teleports out.
  hanna says, "i saw a sign floating in the sky firmly rooted to the ground
 by two narrow posts"
  Pangloss says, "Could you read it?"
  hanna says, "a metal painted a dull shade of gray as to leave the suburban
 landscape undisturbed by the glare of bare ore."
  hanna says, "i am getting to that.. learn patience."
  Pangloss says, "We only have four minutes."
  hanna says, "drought:thirst for it baby."
  hanna says, "the words were so familiar, but they made no sense."
  Doppelganger vanishes through a loophole in the Logos.
  hanna says, "i kept walking walking on going nowhere ever ever so lonely"
  hanna says, "then i saw g or rather i felt him"
  Pangloss says, "Him?"
  Pangloss says, "G was "him" then?"
  Pangloss says, "oh! g."
  hanna says, "yes he was. i almost killed him. "
  Pangloss says, "Not G."
  hanna says, "that is what makes this so strange"
  Pangloss says, "indubitably."
  hanna says, "i had not too long before given up the siren business."
  Pangloss says, "Unfulfilling?"
  Pangloss says, "or too loud?"
  hanna says, "and then this man is here. bad aftertaste we went through
 this before"
  hanna says, "well i could not resist myself"
  Pangloss says, "we won't reiterate."
  hanna says, "i bit off his head"
  Pangloss says, "Bitter men are not good to taste or talk of."
  Pangloss says, "You had that capacity?"
  hanna says, "i spit it back out of course, and a canker worm appeared"
  Pangloss says, "Was it in your jurisdiction to do so?"
  Pangloss says, "Oh my."
  hanna says, "sirens have big mouths. no i had no right."
  Pangloss nods...did you learn?
  hanna says, "the canker worm told me to step on it."
  Pangloss says, "or did you feel that you'd wait for the next time to
 learn?"
  hanna says, "loving animals, i could do no such thing,.. but it pleaded...
 so i did, not caring what they would do."
  Pangloss says, "Long brown cankerworm? Name of 'Frank'?"
  hanna says, "i did learn. i learned that it is a good thing to bite off
 heads."
  Pangloss says, "it's a way to prevent beginnings."
  hanna says, "no he was short and i guess one could say stout"
  hanna says, "no here is the beinginnging"
  Pangloss says, "And that was g.?"
  hanna says, "yes that was g."
  Pangloss says, "There is the beginning."
  Pangloss says, "Thank you."
  hanna says, "but G came out of the cankerworms body!"
  hanna says, "you never knew where G came from?"
  Pangloss [to hanna]: Please take a bow..you have been a mostly lovely
 guest.
  hanna bows
  Pangloss will give you a lovely parting gift.
  Pangloss parts hanna's hair.
  Pangloss thinks we have accomplished much.
Pangloss Archives emits a faint click.  The little green light goes off.




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