CGM | The Accident and the Magic Kingdom (1922)
Channel: Lazy at Churches
Date: 20/08/2020

Computer-Generated Monologues
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Hello all you cybernetic thespians out there. I used an algorithm to create brand new dramatic works, spanning multiple styles and hundreds of years. Please enjoy this piece from The Accident and the Magic Kingdom (1922) by A. S. Kline.

Feel free to perform, wherever and whenever!

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ELEONORE.
Oh dear! I feel as if I've gone and poisoned my own husband, that poison... Why, if there was anything ... true ... about this unholy place... ... Oh, God, how I wish he would be alive to stand up here now! To hear me and my fellow patients, to listen to the one and only voice in this evil delirium, to know what we have all been through ... It all depends on the heart of the man who stands before us. . . . THE CURE, THE CURE! GOD IN THE NAME OF THE NEW AGE! 

Ate with my father, who was the only one who refused to go into the church. All those who died from various causes in the past and our own on the freeway were on the altar. I remember a hysterical old man wept, saying, "Do they really give a damn about the pain of a desperate ballplayer? If it's a poor sport to leave a ball squashed on the diamond, I'll tell you it's a very poor sport to put a blubbering crybaby in a tub full of beer. Blubbering crybaby."

I have walked the circumference of this strange country; I have seen and met and eaten and drunk with all types of people; I have studied like an adept, and with my friend from abroad whom I have learned to be as wise and like a scientist, I have been able to calculate the fate of our population. It is estimated that of our men one-half will die in war, and ten-five will perish in a hopeless revolution. But of those that do die, only three-fourths will come back. The remaining two-thirds will remain behind, barren of imagination, living on the fertile labor of ersatz fathers and mothers, who will continue to brood for another thousand years and only tell the stale yarns of the same old war, urchins and vultures, to be as good as dead in five years.

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