Around Day's End

Voice: Kurt! Here comes the helicopter again!

Voice: Let’s hurry—hurry up and do it.

Voice: It’ll be here in a minute.

[Voices Shouting]

[Shouting and Babbling]

[Shouting in background]

Man in Dark Coat: logistically. Like I—

Man in Light Coat: You know, living in New York.

Man in Dark Coat: I’ve been thinking about not talking for, like, six months or something like that. 

Man in Light Coat: Why, man?

Man in Dark Coat: Well, I read a thing that Buckminster Fuller did it for like a year, he stopped talking and he reorganized his thoughts. At the end of that time, you know how he is now, he talks [indistinguishable]. It’d be hard to do–

Man in Light Coat: Well, impossible.

Man in Dark Coat: Yeah especially, you know, in the subway. Yeah, I kept changing my rules, like I was gonna not talk at all then I decided that, well, I’ll just talk on the telephone. You know?

Man in the Light Coat: One after the other.

Man in Dark Coat: Or well, I’ll just carry a blackboard in my hand and write on it instead of talk and you know.

Man in Light Coat: A notepad.

Man in Dark Coat: Yeah, something like that. But—because sometimes it’s... [indistinguishable].

[Wordless Singing]

Voice: Center.

Voice: Right.

[Indistinguishable Voices]

Woman’s Voice: That was a new one. That was wrong?

Man’s Voice: [Indistinguishable] Stay clear of the hole... 

Woman’s Voice: ...Clear of the hole… [indistinguishable] See, I only do a quarter!

Man’s Voice: This is a half.

[Singing]

Woman’s Voice: Oh! February 24th. [indistinguishable] Number here. Next year it’ll be something else. Just doing it! Got to do it. Got it. Yep.

[Grunting and Panting]

[Singing]

[Indistinguishable] 

[Singing]