{"product_id":"romance-isbn-9780307275189","title":"Romance","description":"Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright David Mamet’s \u003ci\u003eRomance\u003c\/i\u003e is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors.\u003cbr\u003eIt’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices, and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity.“It made me weep with delight. . . . \u003ci\u003eRomance \u003c\/i\u003eis funny. \u003ci\u003eExtremely\u003c\/i\u003e funny.” \u003cbr\u003e–Terry Teachout, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wild ride. . . . An outrageous, hectic comedy composed in the hyperliterate profanity that made him a legend. . . . For fans of Mamet at his most joyfully vicious, it’s everything you ever wanted.” –\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An exhilarating spectacle. . . . Inspired folderol. . . . Mamet . . . is a connoisseur of fiasco.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A joy. . . . A fiesta of forbidden laughter. . . . A giddy, glorious, bad-taste valentine. . . . The most skillfully constructed farce since Michael Frayn’s \u003ci\u003eNoises Off.\u003c\/i\u003e” –\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003eDavid Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. He has taught at Goddard College, the Yale School of Drama, and New York University, and lectures at the Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member. He is the author of the plays\u003ci\u003e The Cryptogram, Oleanna, Speed-the-Plow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSexual Perversity in Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written screenplays for such films as \u003ci\u003eHouse of Games\u003c\/i\u003e and the Oscar-nominated \u003ci\u003eThe Verdict\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWag the Dog.\u003c\/i\u003e His plays have won the Pulitzer Prize and the Obie Award.Scene One\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A courtroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The judge is on the bench. The defendant is being interrogated by a  prosecutor. The defense attorney sits at the defense bench. A bailiff stands  at the side.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Who is this . . . ?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (All turn to sound of siren-as of motorcade passing in the streets.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Who is the person in the hotel room?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I have no idea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: You were there. You were seen there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: By whom?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Just answer the question please.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Then, please may I be addressed with one? (Pause) Would you  please address me with a question? (Pause) \"You were seen there\" is not a  question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Just answer the question as you've been directed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Well, you ask the questions, and I will attempt to answer them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Your Honor, my client is endeavoring . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Excuse me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: . . . to respond to the questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Oh, please . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: \"Oh, please?\" Your Honor? I must object. This scurrilous,  this sad . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: May we be spared the . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: This sense of \"weariness,\" this false, adopted, what is  it? A \"charade\"? A \"vaudeville\" . . . ?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Your Honor, I object, I most strenuously object.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: One moment. May we not have Peace? (Pause) Is that such a strange  word? You will forgive me if I pontificate a moment. Will you? If I speak of  Peace. Is that not the theme of the week?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: It is the theme of the weak. The theme of the strong, Your  Honor, if I may, is truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Yes. Thank you. The theme of this week. This week's theme. Is it not  peace? If not, why are they gathered here? Why are they all come here, if  not for peace?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: It is a signal Honor, may it please the court. To welcome them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (Sound of sirens. All listen.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: And there they go. And there they go. The great men. On their way to  the Peace Conference . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (General murmur.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Mark your calendars, people. It's a Red Letter Day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Indeed it is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Indeed it is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: It Honors our fair city, and it Honors us. To see those who have come  so far. (He sneezes.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    bailiff: Gesundheit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Thank you. And. On our way to work today. The faces. Lining the  streets. Perhaps you saw them? This man or that woman. Enemies, perhaps,  certainly no more than strangers. Reaching out. Because of our Visitors.  Yes. Yes. We have strife. But, but, their presence here . . . (Almost  sneezes, but holds it) I'm sorry, did I take my pill?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    bailiff: You did, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Thank you. Instructs us, that perhaps, the aim of strife is not  Victory. No, but simple peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    all: Mmmm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: (Pause) I'm sorry to've taken your time. Continue. (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Thank you, Your Honor . . . did you contact . . . ?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: No.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I must ask you to . . . refrain from interrupting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Might I have a glass of water?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Get him a glass of water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Thank you, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (The bailiff brings the defendant a glass of water.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Let me begin again. Did you physically contact a person in Room  . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: . . . and could someone get my pill, please . . . ?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    bailiff: Your Honor, you've taken your pill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I took my pill?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    bailiff: Your Honor, yes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Do you require me to repeat the definition of \"contact\"?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I do not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I will ask you once again. Do you require me to repeat the  definition?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I took my pill, then why do I have to sneeze?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (The bailiff brings a vial of pills. The judge sneezes.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    bailiff: Gesundheit, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Gesundheit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Thank you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Your Honor, I do not wish to descend to the \"picayune,\" but as  my colleague has wished you Gesundheit, I feel that I must wish you  Gesundheit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Thank you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: In fairness to the State.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Thank you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Gesundheit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Thank you. (Pause) Where were we?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: (To the defendant) Do you require me to repeat the definition of  . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Because, I don't know about you people, but I'm moved. Yes. Yes. One  becomes callous. But yes, again, we may learn. When we see Two Warring  Peoples, Arabs and Jews, an Ancient Enmity. Opposed since Bible times, I'm  sorry. I'm moved. Did anyone see the parade?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I did, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I did, Your Honor, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I was moved, I'm sorry. (Sneezes)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    all: (Pause) Gesundheit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: All right. You are a chiropodist, are you not?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I am not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Your Honor, I ask that the defendant be instructed to . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I am a chiropractor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I beg your pardon, I intended to say chiropractor. You are a  chiropractor, are you not?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I am.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: And I would like to apologize for being late.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Not at all, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: You people are giving up your time, I see no reason why I should  subject you to any further, uh, uh . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Not at all, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: That's very gracious of you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Curiously, I was late because of the parade. I took my pill, but I  could not remember if I had taken my pill. As they do tend to make one  groggy. So I returned to my house. To, to, to take my \"pill\"; which rendered  me late as, on my leaving the house, I encountered the Parade. (Pause) I  would have been on time if not for the . . . (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Of course, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Parade. A policeman. Stopped them, for a moment. Just to let me  through. He didn't have to do that. He had no idea who I am. Call me a Weepy  Old Fool. (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: All right. When, could you tell me, please, did you last leave  the country?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Thank you, Your Honor, for the water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I need a glass of water, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (bailiff goes for the glass of water.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: When did you last leave the country?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Because I have to take my pill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: This country?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I mentioned the parade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Indeed, Your Honor did. (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: (To the defendant) Is this your signature?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: (Pause) I do not know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Does it appear to be your signature? (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I don't know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: So many people. But, I suppose, that's the nature of a parade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (A slight susurrus of appreciation)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Surely you know if it's your signature?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Is it like your signature?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Yes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: In what way? (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: . . . it is written . . . it is written similarly to my signature  . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: It is . . . (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I just said so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Similarly to your signature. Fine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I guess what I am trying to say is this: We get caught up in the  \"form,\" the Law, Religion, Nationality . . . uh . . . skin color. And then,  and then, miraculously, miraculously, now and then, and by the grace of God,  we are free. And see, that, underneath, we love each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    all: Mmm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: That two world leaders, steeped in enmity . . . (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Momentous days, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Yes, momentous days, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I think we can so stipulate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (Laughter from the two attorneys.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: And I'm not even Jewish . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: On the date in question . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: You know, I'd like to take that back. I don't even know why I say  \"not even.\" I believe a more \"neutral\" expression might have been \"And I'm  not Jewish.\" (Pause) Proceed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: How does this signature differ from your signature? (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I don't know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: You said this resembles your signature In Part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I did . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Let me suggest to you that I would like you to inform me in what  way this differs from your signature. (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I don't know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Then would you say they are the same?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: One moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Yes, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: The pills, I believe, have made me \"drowsy,\" and I beg your pardon,  but, if you'd indulge me: What is the difference, between a chiropodist and  a chiropractor?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: A chiropractor aligns the spine, to create both physical and  spiritual harmony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: And the other fellow?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: He rubs people's feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: For pay? (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Yes, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: And you're which, now?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Your Honor, my client is a chiropractor. (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: All right. Do you deny this is your signature?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: May I have a moment? (He goes into conference with his attorney.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: (To bailiff) Jimmy: Is it hot in here?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    bailiff: Would Your Honor like the window opened?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I can neither deny nor affirm that signature is mine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: What would assist you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (Pause. Conference between defendant and his attorney)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: No, no, I think I prefer the heat to the noise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I cannot say that there is any thing which would assist me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Because it's noisy. Well it's noisier because of the parade . . .  (Pause) So much of life is a choice, between the lesser of two evils.  (Pause) I suppose that's what I'm here for . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    all: (Dutiful laughter)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: They rub people's feet for \"pay.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Yes. Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Ah, well . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I quite agree, Your Honor. (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I have here a document, which bears your signature. Do you  recognize it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: It is a check.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: It is one of your checks. It bears your account number. Your  name is printed on it. It was signed by you. Do you . . . and it was honored  by the bank. Do you acknowledge it to be your signature? Let me put it  differently: Do you dispute it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: May I have a rest?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Do you dispute it? A check. In the amount of this credit card  bill. The bill contains a charge for two airfares. Here is the credit card  slip. Signed by you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: You know . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Your Honor, if I might continue, here is the check signed by  you. Both signatures were accepted as valid, one by the travel agency, one  by the bank. You disputed neither.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I might have gone to Hawaii.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Ah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: But that would not be said to be leaving the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Perhaps you would confine yourself to responding to my  questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: It is not leaving the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: What is not?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: A trip to Hawaii.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: You went to Hawaii?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I did not say that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Yes you did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: But . . . but . . . might I . . . might I finish? Might I finish?  Might I have an opportunity to explain myself? Do you think? In the midst of  this, this . . . in the midst of this inquisition? (Pause) Do you think? As  one human being, speaking to another? I might do that?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Might I suggest if you wish to have the proceedings terminated  happily and quickly you might do well to respond to my questions? Now. Did  you, in the months in question, leave the Mainland?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: (Pause) I do not recall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: What?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: He does not recall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My mind was drifting. He does not recall what?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: If he left the Mainland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Isn't that something one would know?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I quite agree, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Don't you know, son, if you left the Mainland?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I don't recall, sir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: What would assist you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I don't know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Let me understand you: you do not know if . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I don't know. Yes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: If you left the Mainland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: The Mainland of what, please? (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Of, of the Continent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: And he doesn't know that . . . ?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: That is right. (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Do you feel. Let me put it differently: In your experience in  this . . . is such a recollection within the abilities of a reasonable man?  (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: I don't understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: . . . I withdraw the question. And I ask you at this point, if  you are suggesting Mental Incapacity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Your Honor . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Do you suggest your inability to retain a date, or movement on  your part, over the course of a year, do you put it forth as evidence of  Mental Incapacity? Yes or no.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defense attorney: Your Honor, please, this is unnecessary. This is . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: If I asked you:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I beg your pardon, I am not the issue here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: If I asked anyone. (Pause) Some . . . some. Would have a . . .  how can you say it is Mental Incapacity? That's, that's. Vicious. To offer  that, excuse me, sir, that's . . . anyone might. Misremember, or . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: That's correct . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Yes?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Yes, in a busy life . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: . . . anyone might disremember . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Or have difficulty remembering . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Yes . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: A date, or . . . that, that . . . that is, just . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: You're saying that's Human Nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Absolutely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: That is Human Nature. Fellas. Just this morning, I, uh . . . (Pause)  People Forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: You've said that you have difficulty with your memory. That's  right. It is Human Nature. Yes. It is. How does one deal with it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Is it hot in here? (Lays his head down on the desk.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: One, one has, they have Agendas, or . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: People have difficulty remembering, so they have Agendas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Yes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Which they would trust more than their recollections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Yes. That is the purpose of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: That they would prefer notations on a scrap of paper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: As you know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: (Lifts his head up) If we could move it along, gentlemen, I am not  feeling too . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: . . . if it please the court.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I find I'm not feeling too well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: With the Court's Pardon, if I might, the one instant . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I found that my mind was drifting. That's not like me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Many times, Your Honor, sitting for long periods stresses the  spine and induces a decrease in the fluid of the dural matter which may  cause lapses in attention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Yes, you bet, but, in truth? I thought I'd step down, just . . . just  . . . (He sneezes.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    bailiff: Gesundheit, Your Honor . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Thank you. To be a part of the parade. Do you know, just to be a part  of it. I wonder if the pollen in the elm trees near the consulate  exacerbated my attack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    defendant: Is it elm to which Your Honor is allergic?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Do they have \"pollen\"? I suppose they'd have to, as they're \"trees.\"  They're \"trees,\" right, Jimmy? They're \"trees\"? Right, \"elm trees.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    bailiff: Your Honor?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Well, they say tomatoes are a fruit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: Might we, with respect to the court, confine and limit our  attention to the . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Quite quite right. I beg your pardon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I will be brief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: It stuck in my mind, because I have an allergy to Pollen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: I'm not feeling well, and, in fact, I think I'd like to call a  recess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: One moment, Your Honor, please, is all I ask.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Is there, um, pollen, in the elm?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: I don't know, Your Honor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    judge: Or is that just a thing we associate with \"bees.\" (Pause)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    prosecutor: (To defendant) I ask you to turn your attention to this  document, and to identify it for me, please. (Pause) Would you identify it  for me, please? Is this your agenda? 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