a by Andy Warhol

Author:Andy Warhol
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780802195227
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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(Phone rings three times.) (Opera in the background.) O—This my life. One day in my life I should way. (Ring.) (Opera.) I should of. This is gonna be my really big day. (Ring.) Hello. (Ring.) Adio (Opera.) (Ring ring.) (High note.) (Dial tone.) I'm calling Gramercy 3 (Click click click) (Pause with occasional notes from the opera) (long pause) (loud opera). Yeah, 2 8. (Ondine starts singing.) You can hook it back here, can't I? D—No put it up here. O—I wh— —Do you feel less born? O—Like Doris Day. (Noise.) I could never be . . . . . . . except in Calamity Jane. (Music.) R—Try on, come all … D—He put out the hook.

O—I, don't want it on the hook.

RR—Gee I'm glad nobody's talking to me.

O—So am I.

Opera and voices.

O—Oh how hot. I wonder how this reproduces the voice. Can it do it very well? I mean like uh

D—Yeah.

O—Like uh (opera)

RR—Drella . . . . . . (voices) (opera)

O—1953

RR—Callas

O—Baby, you could, at one point like just about now could could we see how how, like could you put it to the to the best kind of possible reception? And we and we just one sound of this and see if it catches those little—

D—Yeah.

O—Like like like

RR—And I'll be the echo.

D—What do you want? What do you want me to do?

O—The echo, the echo.

D—What are you gonna do?

O—I'm trying to think, I wonder how well this picks up singing. Very very well?

D—Yeah.

O—Great. It is. (Opera is loud) I mean God or heaven? Ech, or censorship.

(Callas.) (Callas Callas.) (Voices are faint.)

O—Ternamente Maria Menegini Callas. He. La regina del mondo. ("The queen of the world.”) Oh n o,no no. I'm talking right into it like this. I'll be superimposed, la regina del mondo, la superbe di gratcio di Dio ) “superb by the grace of God"). Maria Menegina Callas, e molto ("She's too much.”)

R—Ah ha ha.

O—Wagner?

R—Rotten.

D—What do you call him?

O—Rotten? He just called you Rotten. He said, “Rotten,” He he ha ha ha ha ha he said Rotten

R—Say it again.

RR—I want you to say

O—Call our mayor.

R—Call the mayor again.

O—Mayor Rotten, mm hm, Mayor Rotten is divine. This enterne- mente Maria Menegini Callas hm hm hm. That's better, that's mono, that's it. Perfecto eterne- mente Maria Menegini Callas he he he he. Et meme si cordially. Hm? Oh. If he plays that piano he'll sing. I wish you'd play for us if possible.

R—Oh please.

O—Yeah, he's right, it's much too. . . . . (voices) . . . . . . I have to read into the microphone.

R—Yeah.

O—Let me read it into the microphone.

R—You can't you can't read my writing.

O—I can read your writing. I'm, I'm a wiz.

R—Start here.

O—What's this?

R—It's the first line, right here. It's called Not So Funny, the poem.

O—Oh Not—, your writing is strange.

R—I knew I had

O—You're writing is calligraful. Calligraful? Is that a word? Yeah.

R—Calligraphic.

O—Calligraphic, but no no, calligraful is, must be a

R—Something like colorful.

O—No c-, (pause). A poem, by Cristine Rosetti hm hm hm hm.

R—I want to read it.

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