— Get it? Art? You get it where you get anything you buy it, listen Gibbs don’t try to tell me in this day and age there isn’t enough around for everybody great art, pictures music books who’s heard all the great music there is, you? You read all the great books there are? seen all these great pictures? Records of any symphony you want reproductions you can get them that are almost perfect, the greatest books ever written you can get them at the drugstore your friend here selling his blood he’s crazy that’s all, like the one that just enriched the countryside here with the Mozart, pick up the paper the only time you read about them they’re making trouble for somebody, for themselves or somebody else that’s the only time you hear about them.
— The only time you hear about anybody.
— that we’re ready to vote for our share in Am…
— What do you mean do I go around with narcotics signing petitions painting slop writing books full of dirty words with a beard? They just want something for nothing half of them are crazy anyhow what about the one he just said he was afraid his head would fall off? Or your big name painter that cut off his ear what about him.
— But that’s what I said, without them where do you get the…
— Wait be quiet!
— Yes well of course we don’t really ahm…
— Look that’s my company! Did you hear that? They’re buying a share in my company Diamond Cable did you see that? That’s my company…!
— I saw it, from the show of hands it looked like they wanted to buy the…
— The what Gibbs, the what. The show of hands you didn’t even see it, you’ve been standing there trying to look down her dress they bought what they wanted to buy. You saw it Whiteback?
— why we call it corporate democracy isn’t it class…
— There did you hear that? Corporate democracy did you hear that Gibbs? This share in America it’s my company they just bought a share in my company, I didn’t get where I am slopping paint on the floor and cutting off my ear either run this school system along corporate lines Whiteback you’d have these strike threats complaints over harassment cleared up in no time, you’d…
— Yes well of course Vern ahm, I don’t think Vern would…
— That’s what they’re whining about isn’t it Dan? this harassment?
— The, the yes the directives the forms, the rules, regulations, guidelines…
— Yes well of course the ahm, you teachers get them from me, I get them from the District Superahm, Vern that is to say yes and he gets them from…
— Start an investigation find out who’s behind it, the…
— The harassment?
— No behind the complaints, the…
— And of course we all get them from the state and the state gets them from the federal education office in…
— The complaints?
— No the directives that is to say, guidelines, forms, regulations, Title Four…
— Title Four’s a hell of a big investment the government’s just protecting their investment see it at the corporate level all the time, that’s what you’re…
— Yes well of course we ahm, in terms of the ongoing situation in order to correlate the ahm, correlations Dan you can ahm…
— The, the correlations the correlations require standardization which, which requires standards…
— Go ahead Dan I’m listening, just let me get Whiteback’s phone in there…
— The standards yes establishing the standards in, just in the scoring area, some of the cards they have holes punched in them that don’t make any sense at all, on these tests for instance the ones to classify potential failures…
— Good, get them early. Hello? Weed out the bad risks… what…? he listened, spoke a crude syllable into the phone and laid it ranting on the desk. — Father Haight over at the parochial school letting us know they didn’t miss anything, lift your lessons right off the air and…
— When a boy that boy with the cap pistol, when he scores top on the music math index and then you check up his holes and find they don’t fit…
— Yes well of course he’s ahm, all we can do that is to say is to ahm…
