— Just need to get across the way this complicated circuit of horizontal and vertical deflection coils makes the old box operate.
— Yes well of course that should ahm, that approach should help eliminate the offensive human element in this ahm, in this area of ahm, Dan’s wife, ljust talked to Dan’s wife about it that is to say and you might develop something with her when he’s felt her ahm, her out…
— Kind of you to think of me Whiteback but I won’t count on it… the door slammed behind them, — once he’s felt her out he’ll probably start wondering who’s kissing her now.
— Yes well I don’t quite ahm, he’s right here in my office if you want to discuss her ahm, her now that is to say… the door marked Principal quavered, — Coach…? it bunged hollow behind him. — Dan? I thought Coach was right behind me here he wants to discuss your wife’s ahm, yes well he’d better explain it himself you’ve met Mister Stye? Dan runs all our testing Mister Stye he’s our resident psycho ahm, keeps an eye on tangibilitating the full utilization potential of our student ahm, body yes student body Major you’ve met Mister Major Hyde yes, Major Hyde… and the flurry of pastels subsided as hands seized hands at arms’ lengths, — we thought Mister Stye might look alike at the ahm, like a look at your drivers’ ed tapes Dan…
— I didn’t know they were on they’re, what class would be watching them now I thought they…
— Elementary Dan the, help motivate the elementary youngsters’ potential carwise that is to say, potentiate them for a real meaningful driving experience when they’re big enough to get out and hit the, hit our nation’s highways yes of course that’s what Mister Stye here…
— Mister Stye is connected with one of our prominent insurance companies, Dan. Hyde massed against the desk weighting its corner with a discreetly herringboned web of creases where his legs met, and knocked a telephone from its cradle. — Get another phone, Whiteback?
— I had a line put in to the bank, for calls I get at the bank… catching light from nowhere, his lenses went blank as he retrieved it — keeping the fish and fowl separate you might say, separate the sheep and the ahm…
— Mister Whiteback heads up the bank here you know Mister Stye, sort of doubles in brass, gives him a real surefooted grasp of community affairs, kind of a grandstand view of both sides of the coin I’m sure Mister Stye knows what I’m talking about Whiteback, probably sees it at the corporate level all the time just like I do.
— Yes he’s ahm, Mister Stye that is to say Dan, he’s shown an interest in running for the school board.
— That can be a pretty thankless proposition, I guess you’re aware of that Mister Stye but you take a company like mine, they’re glad to see their people in working for community and civic betterment right at the decision making level I’m on company time right now in fact, trying to help Whiteback here solve a little space problem with this new equipment coming in.
— We thought we could use your advice on it Dan, the…
— Language labs? His lips broke their silent concert with those on the silent screen recalling the emergency brake, how and when employed. — The language labs have come?
— Not quite Dan more the enrichment ahm, in the motivational resources area where’s that list, marriage, potentiate these girls to make marriage a more meaningful experience when they get out and hit the, I had that list a minute ago…
— But that’s still in the decision mamaking stage, equipment for the sex education program we haven’t even…
— Right Dan I just talked to Vogel about it, he’s working up something on his body engine concept as soon as he’s out of electrical circuitry said he’d drop a copy on my desk yes, structuring the material in terms of, out of old parts, he ahm, here, here it is. Washing machine, dryer, stove electric, stove gas, dishwasher, vacuum cleaner…
— We’re talking about appliances Dan, home appliances.
— Hair dryer…
— Home ec Mister Stye, give these little future homemakers a shot at…
— Implementing unplanlessness in the…
— Day they step out of school they’ll know what they want, Mister Stye here knows what I’m talking about. That ad your company runs with the empty chair at the head of the dinner table? One look at that and your little homemaker really puts on the clamps, take that what was his name that shot the president over a washing machine…
— But this equipment, I don’t remember this equipment in the budget.
— Matter of fact Dan it’s all coming to us, all this modern equipment is coming to us courtesy of a subsiderary of the company Major Hyde here is connected with.
— But where’s all this equipment going?
— Resource materials Dan, we can set this home ec motivational center you might call it, set it up in the south annex there…
— But adult ed is there, the Great Books program and…
