ABSTRACT

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(burping) … gezplupzt … do excuse me, my rampling rosy … to be quite honest, and sincere, I’m not sure how much more of this eating I can eat ….

two

(reclining and lethargic) … no, me neither gildy … I feel … I feel … I feel a little of what might be called … monstrous …

one

(squinting down at the other, as reading glasses have snapped under the force of expansion) … not a bad term for it … as Kant did usefully observe, “an object is monstrous where by its size it defeats the end that informs its concept”… (surveying its own not inconsiderable amplitude) … you would have thought we met the membership criteria … (suddenly swoony) … whoooah said Snowy … it is as though there may be some kind of exploding event on the horizon … imminently and looming …

two

(shaking head as vigorously as engorged larval form permits) …I do not at all like the sound of that, no sire, no siree, oh no, oh dear, uh-oh … I do not like the sound of that, not one bit at all …

one

122… no, can’t say I’m keen … moi non plus … going around blowing up all over the place … exploding like a bomb abroad … not exactly comme il faut …

two

… jeepers gee whizz and creepers … what … is … happening … to my skin … this isn’t like the other times actually in actual matter of fact …

one

(also rattled) … I think … if things are unfolding according to the logic of our allegory … that we may be pupating … ne t’inquiètes pas, ma cochonette rose, it will … or may … jings!… just about … all be for the best … (gasping) … in the best of all possible worlds …

two

(terrified) … h-e-l-p … Vater, siehst du denn nicht …

one and two togther

… daß wirver-br-e-nn-en …