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1/28

Beat

Tactic

Action

Reaction

Win/ Loss

Don't we look great.

You look beautiful.

To flatter.

Sweetly

You look beautiful!You look like a firefly in a nightclub.

Win

To prompt

Hopefully


2/28

What does that mean?

Loss

It was your remark.

To mock

Readily

It was a compliment of some kind, Rhonda Louise.

Loss

To question

Openly

Trust me.

Win

To retract

Sulkily

But here we are. And I'm stumped, sister, stumped, I really truly am.

Win


3/28

To open

Excitedly

Cause you are stunning,

Win

To urge

Hungrily

and I am stunning,

Loss

To withdraw

Purposefully

and this room is just ideal to show how stunning we really are...

Win

Like the oysters.

To poke

Snidely

Exactly.


4/28

Loss

To humor

Malevolently

But where are the men?

Loss

You told me not to invite any men.

To joke

Cautiously

I know. I know I did that.

Win

To mollify

Hurriedly

But where are the men?

Loss

That was the whole point.

To criticize


5/28

Harshly

I know. But where are they?

Loss

The three of us would just deck out and look great for each other and fuck the men.

To register

Impatiently

I know, I know, but don't you feel we are wasting out gorgeousness on each other.

Loss

No.

To halt

Angrily

Just a little?

Loss

No.

To recognize

Resolutely

I understand what you are saying that, but come on.

Loss


6/28

Wait. I know what you are hinting at.

To warn

Candidly

(Look I am sorry to have brought it up)

Win

That ain't what going on here.

To discourage

Forcefully

(If you don't want to talk about)

Win

Anyway, you're married.

To deflect

Hurriedly

So what?

Loss

So you're here without a man because your husband's out building buildings somewhere.

To scorn

Deliberately


7/28

So what?

Loss

To shrug off

Tiredly

You're here alone, I mean, without a man, because you threw Jerry out.

Loss

Stop. Right there.

To silence

Spitefully

She pulls back seeing, she has hit a nerve

Win

That's a black lie.

To disparage

Indigently

(What's the problem?)

Loss

I'm here alone tonight cause you knew your husband whadn't going to be around tonight


8/28

To state

Flatly

(He's been away a lot recently)

Win

and you don't cheat so you suggested this girls' night

To concede

Begrudgingly

(I've just been lonely)

Win

which is fine with me

To absolve

Firmly

(Then why are you acting all offended?)

Loss

but don't you then turn around and tell me I don't have a date because I threw this one guy outta my life.

To retort

Hotly

(It's just that guys would make)


9/28

Loss

That's just a detail.

To educate

Directly

Sorry

Win

If I wanted a guy here tonight there'd be a guy here tonight.

To finalise

Emphatically

She looks me straight in the eyes, listening.

Win

I'm dressed up cause you wanted me to dress up.

To blame

Abruptly

(I didn't force you to do anything)

Loss

I'll tell you why you are crying out Where's the men?

To divide


10/28

Scornfully

(Admit it you like, the attention men give you)

Loss

It's cause we're dressed for men.

To judge

Cheerlessly

(I know I do.)

Win

These clothes evolved outta a situation where observations were made about which kinda garments are effective to wear to

attract males of the species.

To enlighten

Knowingly

She nods eyes widening.

Win

It's really like the female fashion's premier designer is Mister Charles Darwin.

To meet

Boldly

(See, it's only natural.)

Loss


11/28

The point is these kinda clothes are bait.We're wearing bait.

To condescend

Bitterly

(What's wrong with men liking a certain kind of clothes?)

Loss

These clothes are just like worms only theres' no fish to bite.

To imbue

Matter of Factly

Worms!

Loss

Bait.

To correct

Plainly

It's weird to think of my clothes as worms.

Win

And you yourself as the hook.

To adopt

Resolutely


12/28

Especially when

i've already landed my fish.

Loss

To reverse

Jealously

Bob. Bob the big mouthed bass.

Loss

Well that's cause you gotta keep in shape.

To depreciate

Flippantly

What do you mean?

Win

You gotta know, if it came to that extreme, that you could catch another gentleman.

To deride

Zealously

(There is nothing wrong with enjoying men's attention.)

Loss


13/28

My father used to practice fly fishing in the living room.

To trip

Purposefully

(I don't )

Win

He's be casting this fly in and about a sewing hoop to the consternation of my mother.

To evoke

Patiently

She frowns, looking thoughtful.

Win

He was practising outwitting the trout.

To affirm

Blatantly

(Smart man.)

Loss

It's the comparable same thing to happily married women who flirt.

To incite

Slides her wedding ring across the table to her. Calmly.


14/28

She stiffly takes the ring.

Win

They're casting flies in the living room.

To establish

Smugly

Is that what you think of me, Rhonda Louise?

Win

Well. Billie. You are on of the worst flirts I know.

To provoke

Honestly

Do you honestly think I flirt to keep in shape in case Bob leaves me?

Loss

Yes. Fear!

To berate

Heatedly

She pulls back, adopting a hurt expression, trying to win my sympathy.

Win

I think that's one of the reasons.


15/28

To implicate

Meaningfully

She reaches for my hand.

Loss

But I think you do it too cause you'd like to screw the socks off the lot of 'em.

To guilt

Pointedly, pulling my hand away.

Is that what...

Loss

Yes! Horniness!

To snatch

Wildly

(Yes.)

Win

Definitely!

To assert

Palpably

(You don't know me.)


16/28

Loss

And I think you do it too as a sort of check you run to make sure you still exist.

To belittle

Frustratedly

(I don't always feel good about it ok.)

Win

That's the most existential reason.

To manipulate

Triumphantly

(You can't be as saintly as you pretend to be.)

Loss

I flirt therefore I am.

To flaunt

Carelessly

(He's never there to notice)

Loss

And I think you do it too to...

To ensnare


17/28

Restlessly

I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHY I FLIRT.

Win

Why?

To press

Collected

Habit.

Loss

Oh.

To submit

Tensely

There was probably a dozen reasons why, at one time, but they're all dead now.

Win

To disapprove

Inwardly

Still standing up but dead. Like stuffed birds in the museum of Natural History.

Win


18/28

To connect

Guiltily

Like me.

Win

What's the matter Billie?

To invite

Sympathetically

I feel dead. I feel dead.

Win

You're not dead, honey.

To comfort

Delicately

Yes, I am.

Win

No, you're not.

You just feel dead.

To endear


19/28

Airily

The other night, Bob asked me to marry him.

Loss

But you are married to him.

To lead

Consciously

He forgot!

Win

He what?

To trouble

Excitedly

Oh, it was sweet really.

Loss

To encourage

Delicately

We had this dinner and we drank champagne and he'd bought me these pink roses,

Loss


20/28

To steer

Reaching for her hand, concernedly

Loss

To incite

squeezing her hand, gently

Win

To push

Eagerly,

and the moment was just so...He got carried away and proposed.

Loss

But that's just so dear.

To shame

Begrudgingly,


21/28

Oh, it was precious, it really, really was.

Loss

To shape

Carefully

But it is also just exactly what it is about my marriage that drives me insane.

Win

To agitate

Abruptly

I mean, I could kill!

Win

I don't get it.

To provoke

Resolutely, trying to persuade her that there is something wring with her marriage

It's the court ship. He can't give it up.

Win


22/28

To blame

Pointedly

We can't give it up.

Loss

To imbue

Worriedly

It's been three years and we are still on the balcony, if you know what I mean.

Win

To support

Fully

I thought that marriage was supposed to lead somewhere, not just to be frozen in some terrific moment.

Win

To alter

Calculatingly


23/28

Win.

To indicate

Meaningfully

I thought it was supposed to be this great adventure.

Loss

To focus

Narrowly

Like death.

Loss

It's hard for me to sympathize, Billie

To warn

Seriously

Oh, I'm sure it is. Nobody ever sympathizes with me.

Loss

To hamper


24/28

Disapprovingly

Well. You've always done well that I could see.

To encourage

Tersely

And terrible!

Loss

You've always had money.

To challenge

Patiently

Yes I have.

Win

And some guy that adored you.

To admit

Dejectedly

Almost always.

Win


25/28

And you're good looking and you have nice clothes and you've always lived in some place that was great...

To eliminate

Plainly

But it's always been like photographs.And I want to be in a movie!

Loss

To clear

Quickly

Win

To question

Warily

An adventure movies where half my clothes are torn off by a gorilla

Win

To abide

Tiredly


26/28

and I marry a chief and I'm thrown in a volcano

Loss

To overlook

Dispassionately

but I survive and become a Hollywood star

Loss

To probe

Loosely

and I give it up and become a nun in an insane asylum in France

Loss

To mock

Childishly

and learn about bing silent and unknown,

Loss


27/28

To ignore

Over dramatically

and I invent something.. useful and good...

Win

To impede

Insistently

that the government and the corporations want to steal and twist for evil...

Loss

Billie! Billie! Billie!

To interrupt

Curtly

What?

Win

What are you talking about?

To dismiss

Brusquely

I just wish my existence was more picturesque.


28/28

Loss

And for this you want my sympathy?

To deny

Unrelentingly

No, not for that, Rhonda Louise.

Win

To implore

Actively

I want you sympathy for an ache in me which knows no name.

Loss

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