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Mabel

Episode Thirty-Seven: Pas de Deux

Mabel

Becca De La Rosa & Mabel Martin

Arts, Performing Arts

4.4776 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Every king has a coronation. And what kind of coronation would it be if everything went perfectly to plan? Featuring: an old friend, a new realization, an interrupted ritual.

 
Written by Becca De La Rosa and Mabel Martin. Guest starring: Dorrie Sacks as Janet Kirk and Alexandra Serova as Aconite.
 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mabel Episode 37, Pad de Du, in which the world splits like an atom.

0:13.0

Why don't you ride when you don't need money?

0:17.0

Why don't you ride?

0:19.0

Swi'o, why don't?

0:21.6

Why don't?

0:46.5

The hill is not a microcosm. It is not the universe. It is not a gaping mouth or a gaping wound. It is not a void to fill. It is not a never-ending song of roses or a lapse in

0:52.7

the signature of time.

0:55.3

It is not sprawling.

0:56.9

It is not relentless.

0:59.6

It is only what it is.

1:04.2

Do you understand that it will rage and gnash its teeth against any limitation?

1:07.8

That it will cower before them, burn, sing?

1:13.0

There is no imposition we can inflict upon it. This is important.

1:18.0

Why does it need a king at all then? Why does it need any external force?

1:25.2

Why does a body need cells? Why does a heart need blood? There are explanations, but beyond that, no answers.

1:29.3

It's just the way that... There are physical facts of existence without which we would not be what we are.

1:34.8

That's all I really know.

1:36.8

What we did had repercussions unthroning him.

1:41.0

I felt it even then.

1:43.2

Yeah, there's always consequences. That's just physics.

1:48.8

I can enforce my will onto things down here, push and pull, cause and effect. That's not the same

1:55.3

as whatever it was he did. He was necessary, like, like you said, like cells, like blood. Is that what it will be

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