So on your side of the table sits a spoon and a silence. Mine has a village on it. I am winning the evening, Cutlery, and I don't even enjoy winning.
THE VILLAGE IDIOTSThey were warned.
The ones the village still talks about.
The ones people liked for better reasons are in the Hall of Heroes.
Standing there doing arithmetic.
Mister Standing-Still, your best line yet, and it was about me.
You stand there like a coat rack with opinions.
Four turns, one utensil, no plan. You've done this before — I said so — and I was wrong. You've watched somebody do this before. That's worse.
You are the sixth thing this village has sent, after a goat, a letter with four spelling errors, a nephew and two years of nobody at all, and you have brought *
Let's total up what you've done since you climbed up here, since you've clearly never negotiated in your life.
You've had two hours and produced arithmetic and a cutlery anecdote.