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George : Good morning, Shop Around the Corner.
George. May I help you?
Christina : Kathleen, The Channel 2 truck just
pulled up.
Kathleen : In a second.
Christina : Everyone's read the article.
Birdie : "And so, you do not have to look to
any of the
usual places where good and evil
face off, the
places Herodotus just called 'the happy land of
absolutes'. We have the perfect example here on the
West Side where the cold
cash cow, Fox
Books threatens survival of a temple to one of the
twentieth century's most profound truths: You are
what you read."
Frank : I believe that.
Birdie : "Save The Shop Around The Corner and you
will save your soul." Frank, that's charming.
Frank : You think it’s a little
over the top?
Birdie : That was The Village Voice. I told them to
come over whenever.
Kathleen : Oh, man. Ok. All right. "Float like a
butterfly. Sting like a bee."
Kids : One, two, three, four! We don't want your
superstore! Five, six, seven, eight! Go away and
close the gate! One, two, three, four!
Joe : We don't want this superstore.
Nelson Fox : Is that what they’re saying?
Joe : Catchy. Yeah.
Joe : Who wrote that?
Schuyler Fox : Annoying.
Nelson Fox : Pissing me off actually
Kathleen : Do you want the West Side to become one
big, gigantic strip mall?
Crowd : No.
Kathleen : Do you want to get off the subway at 72nd
and Broadway and not even know you're in New York
City?
Crowd : No.
Kathleen : Can we save The Shop Around The Corner?
Crowd : Yeah.
Anchorperson : We're here and for The Shop Around The
Corner, the famous West Side children's bookstore
now on the verge of
having to close its doors because the big bad wolf,
Fox Books, has opened only a few hundred away wooing
customers with its sharp discounts and
designer coffee.
Kathleen : They have to have discounts and lattes
because most of the people who work there have never
read a book.
Joe : She's not as nice as she seems on TV.
Kevin : You met her?
Joe : Yeah. Boy, she's a
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