Scampi: Blah blah. Blah blah.
MUSICAL INTERLUDE.
Scampi: And so it goes.
Peter: Am I included in this?
Scampi: Peripherally, I suppose.
Peter: Oh.
Scampi: But not really.
Peter: Ah.
Scampi: If you’re going to sit on the tracks, you must sit next to them.
Peter: This does not parse.
Scampi: If you wish to sit down, amidst the urban landscape, you can’t get in the way of the train.
Peter: Oh?
Scampi: It isn’t the point. It will cause you to miss the point.
Peter: I wouldn’t want to do that.
Scampi: Well, no.
PAUSE.
Scampi: Do you think of yourself as a scientist?
Peter: No.
Scampi: I don’t think of you as being a scientist.
Peter: Then we are agreed.
Scampi: If that’s how you want to see it.
Peter: Are we not agreed?
Scampi: Be it resolved.
Peter: Yes?
Scampi: Sometimes, you know, people put those spiky things on buildings. So the pigeons can’t sit on them.
Peter: This is true.
Scampi: Doesn’t that bother you?
Peter: No.
Scampi: No?
Peter: I must confess, it does not.
Scampi: Just wait ‘til I put spiky things on your desk chair. Then we’ll see what bothers you.
Peter: There is no need to be so threatening.
Scampi: Where you see no need, I see need everywhere.
Peter: I see.
Scampi: We are different creatures, you and I.
Peter: We are not a different species, however.
Scampi: How can you be so sure?
Peter: It is a fact.
Scampi: You and your facts. Facts have never stood up to anything.
Peter: What have you got against facts?
Scampi: What did Senator McCarthy have against facts?
Peter: Pardon?
Scampi: Nothing at all. He just rolled on over, like a monster truck.
Peter: And you wish to take McCarthy’s attitude towards truth?
Scampi: I wish to inform you.
Peter: I see.
Scampi: Facts are very nice in your little basement apartment.
Peter: I don’t have a basement apartment.
Scampi: In your little hibernation cave. But they won’t save you, in the end.
Peter: Do I require saving?
Scampi: That’s all I’m saying about that.
Peter: Very helpful.
Scampi: I am helpful. Not that you care.
Peter: I see.
Scampi: You can see your breath.
Peter: Yes.
Scampi: This is a sign.
Peter: Of respiration?
Scampi: Basically.