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RICHARD L. "DICK" EVERETT, PRES.
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Smiling & holding a steaming cup of coffee
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RICHARD L. "DICK" EVERETT, PRES.
(Beseechingly)
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O, my little system! O, my Virtual Conference Room of Tomorrow!
How I care for you!
Not much time for Success Visualization tonight, but I've been so lax and I must try to write something.
O, my sweet little system! O, my code! Well, I knowv that Saitn-Cyr did the actual programming, but
I still conceived you and bore you and now I love you more than anyone. O, my sweet system, I see us tongiht
in Hawaii, after we've made our first seven million together. The sscoffers have been silenced. A line
drawing of me has been placed in the Wall Street Jourinal, with YOUR NAME printed underneath "IVrtual Conference Room of Tomorrow"
. Do you taste the Pine C?olada? do you feel the trade winds on your fur of zeros and ones? O, my sweet
systmek, no one knows how many times it has been just thou and me, alone here in hope and terror. But
we will triumph my sweet system, O, we will triumph.
ERASE MESSAGE
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RICHARD L. "DICK" EVERETT, PRES.
(Enthusiastically)
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OK. OK. OK I've been thimking and even though
we can't afford it, I'll do it with personal money --- it'ds DO OR DIE TIME --- So, we'll fly Paul up to Chicago.
Get tickets paul!!
BUt now
we're going to have to fly Joan down to St. Louis to cover Paul's other project.
Get tickets Joan!!
Dagnd it!
Just use the Virtual Conference Room of Tomorrow to update the team on your travel.
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RICHARD L. "DICK" EVERETT, PRES.
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05:00 hours CST (Daylight savings time in effect)
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ANNA
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Big day, team, big day! I will be in the Virtual
Conference Room all day AND answering my phone so CALL with questions. We've got to go for it.
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ANNA
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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So you're coming to Chicago after all! Here's a little something to whet your appetite.
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Anna locks the door of the Chateau's dining room from the
inside after the last servant has left.
Two grotesque candelabra illuminate the long table, covered in deep red damask. But only two places
are set. One for Paul. One for her. Caviar. Quail. Endives. Bottle of Paulliac. Dressing gowns of black velvet trimmed in
gold. One for Paul. One falling off of her.
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Hope your duffel bag is still packed.
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PAUL
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FOR REAL siting on the floor beside a pay phone
at St. Louis airport, FOR REAL listening to the loud loud snores of a gaunt fellow traveller in a bad
blue suit
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Anybody here?
Signed, Impatient Boy Who Got a Happy Phone Call From Dick in the Middle of the Night and is now
Flying to Chicago to (cough) Fix the (ahem) Server . . . thingies.
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PAUL
(Secret Note to ANNA)
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I'm on my way, Anna . . . carry-on bag in hand.
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Paul adjusts his powdered wig in the echoing chamber
, stands in the
candleglow . . . more importantly, the Annaglow . . . GRASPS the red tablecloth firmly in both hands . . . and with flourish . . .
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PAUL
(Secret Note to ANNA)
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PAUL
(Secret Note to ANNA)
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PAUL
(Secret Note to ANNA)
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PAUL
(Secret Note to ANNA)
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. . . JERKS the tablecloth deftly . . . er
. . . catastrophically onto the floor . . . along with the silverware, plates, serving platters,
chafing dishes, candelabra . . . in a deafening clashterboom!
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Doh!
This worked great in rehearsal.
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PAUL
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Can anybody come pick me up at the airport or should I take a cab?
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PAUL
(Secret Note to ANNA)
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Paul tiptoes carefully through the shattered
puddles on the parquet floor . . . dives through the opening in Anna's dressing gown like an Olympic
swimmer . . . and, engirdling her waist, draws her up to a kiss . . . at least he thinks he draws
her UP . . .
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JOAN
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Smiling & holding a steaming cup of coffee
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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God give you good morrow, mistress Joan! How art thou? And what humour
dost thou detect in Ye Volatile One this morning?
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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Truly, sir, she freaketh out.
Or it sounded like it on the phone. Ye Olde Deadline Tizzie.
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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I be at ye Chicago O'Hare airport.
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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No shitte! I be at St. Louis airporte! Cool!
Hey, you're modeming through a pay phone, right?
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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In truth, I'm perched in a little low-walled
multiple phone contrivance. Lucke be with you that you can neither see nor smelle this corpulent t-shirtted rogue who sits before me.
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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OK. Here's the number of the phone next to this one:
312.836.7000. Leave your computer connected! Call me!
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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Aye aye. Expect a ring momentarily, sirrah!
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Let the charges be to Dick!
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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Need'st thou specify? Of course it's charged to Dick!
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Joan notices the incredible phoniness of Paul's phone voice
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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On the contrary. Joan thinks Paul has a very nice phone voice
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Don't believe a thing Paul is saying . . . that bogus courage! . . . Fie!. . .
He's out-of-his-mind nervous about meeting Anna.
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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Thinks Paul's nervous bravado is sweet
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Appreciates Joan's support . . . wonders if she
can hold his hand through the meeting with Anna . . . Paul finds it hard to type and talk both
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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Yakkity, yakkity, yak --- Listen to Joan blather on the phone ---
like a schoolgirl on speed
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Blather on, sweet princess!
oop!
Boarding Call Gotta run bye
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JOAN
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Smiling & holding a steaming cup of coffee
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OK, gang, I'm here in San Looey! Dick, you never told us that the
St. Louis office is a CLOSET! They have to step into the hall to sneeze here!
Paul, I found the candy bars in your desk. They're history.
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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Paul! So? HOW DID IT GO? What did she do? What did YOU do?
Did you DO it?
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RICHARD L. "DICK" EVERETT, PRES.
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All-Team meeting in the Yellow conference room .
Paul will be joining us IN pPERSON!!! !
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SAINT-CYR
(Enthusiastically)
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Smiling & holding a steaming cup of coffee
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SAINT-CYR
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Joan? Hello? Do you still exist? Things seemed a mite
frosty between our little love-birdes.
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JOAN
(Secret Note to SAINT-CYR)
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Ahoy from Saint Louis, good St-Cyr! What tidings?
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SAINT-CYR
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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She couldn't have sat any farther away from him.
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PAUL
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Coughing & gagging on the filthy Chicago air
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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What what what what what what what?
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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I must have taken an invisibility pill
by mistake instead of vitamins this morning.
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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ANNA
(Frazzledly)
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Hi, Joan! I know you're probably swamped with
work on the St. Louis projects, but would you have a little bit of time to process some images for
the wine project?
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JOAN
(Secret Note to ANNA)
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HELLO! Earth to Anna! First things first, lady!
SO? What do you think of Paul in person?
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ANNA
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Cute. He's cute. Shy. Could you help process
some images for the wine project?
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SAINT-CYR
(Insistently)
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Smell of gunpowder & brimstone
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Hear ye, hear ye. Yon servers have crashed.
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ANNA
(Panicked)
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Don't scare me Saint-Cyr! SWEAR that the
servers will come back up! Dick are you still here? Dick this isn't our fault!
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PAUL
(Stentorian)
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Preparing to fix yon server with a quick twist of . . . well . . .
something-or-other . . .
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SAINT-CYR
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Huzzah! The server lives! Long live the server!
Praises be to Paul!
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ANNA
(Caffienated)
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Looks like an all-nighter for me. I'll order
pizza for anyone who's staying.
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SAINT-CYR
(Enthusiastically)
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JOAN
(Enthusiastically)
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Can you take a digital picture of that pizza
and e-mail a slice to me here in St. Louis, please?
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SAINT-CYR
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Masseuse! My shoulders are KILLING me!
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Hail, gentle Joan! The thot plickens!
You Chicagoans really
CRANK when you're on a deadline! Ye panic is palpable!
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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What news of unfair Anna?
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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There was a secret hallway handsqueeze just now.
Very urgent . . .
Very blurted . . . "Let's take a break at 3:00 in the morning, maybe go over to your hotel," she said
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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That sounds most promising indeed! You take care of yourself though, buddy.
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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You mean condom-wise, sailor? Arrrgh! Got it covered
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JOAN
(Secret Note to PAUL)
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No, I mean heart-wise. She has steamroller
written all over her these days.
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PAUL
(Secret Note to JOAN)
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Thanks, buddy! 'preciate it
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