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Bernstein delivering his monologue about the girl on the ferry inCitizen Kane.
(Ya ever seen a ghost?
Mulaney asks his mother at random, while theyre sitting on a couch eating Triscuits in silence.)
This is not to say that Mulaney thinks were allactuallyat constant risk of random extermination.
He gently mocks the idea; thats the whole point of his fixating on it.
But the fear is there, its pervasive, and its instilled in us from childhood.
He was a man most acquainted with misery, Mulaney says.
He could look at a child and guess the price of their coffin.
When he works up a rhetorical head of steam, his accent turns old-timey.
Im actively rooting for it.
