Monday, November 03, 2003

Attilio. What you want to do is find a rock and make sure that the monkeys see you pick it up. It's one of the things that separate us and monkeys. We can use things as tools and in this case, weapons.
Gennadi. How big does the rock have to be?
Attilio. Something large so that the monkey will scream when it hits its side. This'll do. See how the gang is moving away?
Gennadi. They seem pretty reluctant though.
Attilio. They may not want to, but they don't want to be hurt either. These monkeys are traumatized by little kids yelling and hurling rocks while they sleep.
Gennadi. Don't they have hostilities towards us because of that?
Attilio. They may want to do something to us, but they know that can't cross that line - no sense of sacrifice, selflessness.
Gennadi. They seem to have a lot of self-control. What happened to the wild inside?
Attilio. When is comes to pain, the wild scatters.
Gennadi. That monkey's coming our way.
Attilio. Get that rock over there.
Gennadi. But what if I miss and it angers him?
Attilio. It's never gotten to that point with me. Act if you're going to bury the rock into their skull. Monkeys don't know what it means to bluff.
Gennadi. I have to remember to only play poker with loaded monkeys.
End. Poker with Loaded Monkeys