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I love you, croons one.
Give him a hug, implores another.
Im going to put my snake on you, says the third.
Then, lest the innuendo be lost on us, he drops his voice an octave.
Im going to put it around you.
Okay, nice to see you!
Schreck says cheerfully, dodging the reptiled men just in time to avoid contact.
Some paces later, she slows.
We were both so polite, she sighs.
Did you notice that?
A patchwork quilt?)
I was big into contests when I was a kid, Schreck shrugs.
Always looking for money.
Instead, Schreck laments, women choose to be polite.
That I felt like I should be nice to them.
Then theres the gallows humor.
Funny, funny, funny!
People who endure these things all, I think, develop a pretty ferocious sense of humor.
I did come back out, she assures me.
People feel raw in the audience.
It feels very jagged, a lot of crying, a lot of enthusiasm.
I would say that both extremes of reactions are heightened.
Theres also a lot of truth-telling.
Which helps with the shucking of politeness, the nurturing of the rage.
I think Im going to keep doing it because it seems the feeling of this moment.
It feels like a righteous rage.
It feels like a powerful, healing kind of rage.
Thats the kind I want to tap into.
What else does she want?
I think we can agree that it was a complicated encounter.
We cant reduce it.
