Wake Up Dead Man

Wicks: I've masturbated, um, four times this week. Four or five, generally, in... What'd I say, six weeks? Well, let's say 30 times, masturbated. Uh, this week, in my bed, in the morning once. Once in the shower, standing up, which was convenient. Just use a bath gel. Oh, once in the middle of the night, after a dream about… Jud: That’s all right. Wicks: Oh, one of those Japanese cat cafés. Jud: Okay. Wicks: You know, I read this article, but the cats were girls, and, you know, so… And I hadn’t prepared, so I had to finish into a copy of Catholic Chronicle magazine, just what was on the end table, which is probably its own kind of sin. I don’t know, maybe not, but… Not good.

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Cy: I came this close. I was the GOP golden boy. The great hope. I've got connections, ins and outs. I was on the cusp, but I just couldn't engage voters. It didn't have that "cult of personality" thing, I guess. Jud: It's hard connecting with people in a genuine way. Cy: I know. I tried everything, believe me. I mean, I hammered the race thing. I hammered the gender thing. The trans thing, the border thing, the homeless thing, the war thing, the election thing, the abortion thing, the climate thing. The thing about induction stoves, Israel, library books, vaccines, pronouns, AK-47's, socialism. BLM, CRT, the CDC, DEI, 5G, everything! All of it I did. Nobody, just nothing... People are just numb these days. I don't know why. Jud: Well..maybe we need to get back to fundamentals. You know, basic building blocks on how to genuinely inspire people. Cy: The basics. You mean like, show them something they hate, and then make them afraid it's gonna take away something they love? Jud: Well...n

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Martha: Yes, the harlot whore. That was Wicks' mother. Jud: Okay, so what's the deal with that? Martha: She was a harlot and a whore. Jud: Okay...

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Wicks: Anger! Anger lets us fight back, take back the ground we've lost! And we've lost so much ground. And now you're afraid. Look at those bare-knuckle instincts coming back! Good! You're afraid I'm gonna come at you again, but you're protecting yourself. Because the world wants to destroy us. Your version of love and forgiveness is a sop. It's going along to get along, with modernity, not wanting to offend this garbage world. Meanwhile, they destroy us. Feminists, Marxists, whores..bit by bit, they do. But I carry my burden. I hold the line. And you? You simpering child from Albany? Are you gonna get angry and fight? Jud: You're poisoning this Church. And I'll do whatever it takes to save it. To cut you out like a cancer.

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Jud: I take it you're not a Catholic Blanc: Ah, no. Proud heretic. I kneel at the altar of the rational.

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Jud: How does all this make you feel? Blanc: How does it make me feel? Truthfully? Jud: Sure. Blanc: Well, the architecture, that interests me. I feel the grandeur, the… the mystery, the intended emotional effect... And it’s like someone has shone a story at me that I do not believe. It’s built upon the empty promise of a child’s fairy tale filled with malevolence and misogyny and homophobia and its justified untold acts of violence and cruelty while all the while, and still, hiding its own shameful acts. So like an ornery mule kicking back, I want to pick it apart and pop its perfidious bubble of belief and get to a truth I can swallow without choking... The rafter details are very fine, though. It’s… Listen… you want to kick me out, you go right ahead. Jud: No, no. You’re being honest, it’s good. Blanc: The truth can be a bitter herb. I suspect you can't always be honest with your parishioners. Jud: You can always be honest by not saying the un-honest part. And you're right, it's sto

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