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17. (9/30/2009)
my body lives over the ocean.
GUS
My body lives over the ocean.
By body lives over the sea!
My body lives over the ocean.
Won’t you bring back –
JACQUES (while passing across the scene)
Excuse me?
GUS
Yes?
JACQUES
I don’t mean to interrupt.
GUS
Oh… then:
Won’t you bring back my body to me.
JACQUES
Yes.
That’s what I thought.
Are you singing “My body lies over the ocean?”
GUS
Yes!
You know the song.
JACQUES
No,
That’s not what I meant.
GUS
Then you don’t know it?
It’s a lovely song.
JACQUES
No, I mean, that’s not the lyric.
GUS
I think I know the lyrics.
I wrote the song.
JACQUES
The lyric is
My bonnie lies over the ocean.
Not my body.
GUS
That’s the lyric to that song.
Not to my version.
I rewrote my version.
To say my body.
It’s a metaphor.
JACQUES
A metaphor?
GUS
A metaphor is a figure of speech concisely comparing two things, saying that one is the other.
JACQUES
I know what a metaphor is.
I want to know what it’s a metaphor for.
GUS
It’s a metaphor for my body.
JACQUES
Your body is a metaphor for your body?
GUS
Yep.
JACQUES
That.
That sounds.
That sounds good.
GUS
Would you like to sing with me?
JACQUES
I think I would.
They sing.
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