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the other list . . . ?
    Williamson: You want something off the B list?
    Levene: Yeah. Yeah.
    Williamson: Is that what you’re saying?
    Levene: That’s what I’m saying. Yeah. (Pause.) I’d like something off the other list. Which, very least, that I’m entitled to. If I’m still working here, which for the moment I guess that I am. (Pause.) What? I’m sorry I spoke harshly to you.
    Williamson: That’s alright.
    Levene: The deal still stands, our other thing.
    Williamson shrugs. Starts out of the booth.
    Levene: Good. Mmm. I, you know, I left my wallet back at the hotel.

    SCENE TWO
    A booth at the restaurant. Moss and Aaronow seated. After the meal.
    Moss: Polacks and deadbeats.
    Aaronow: . . . Polacks . . .
    Moss: Deadbeats all.
    Aaronow: . . . they hold on to their money . . .
    Moss: All of ‘em. They, hey: it happens to us all.
    Aaronow: Where am I going to work?
    Moss: You have to cheer up, George, you aren’t out yet.
    Aaronow: I’m not?
    Moss: You missed a fucking sale. Big deal. A deadbeat Polack. Big deal. How you going to sell ‘em in the first place . . . ? Your mistake, you shoun’a took the lead.
    Aaronow: I had to.
    Moss: You had to, yeah. Why?
    Aaronow: To get on the . . .
    Moss: To get on the board. Yeah. How you goan’a get on the board sell’n a Polack? And I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you what else. You listening? I’ll tell you what else: don’t ever try to sell an Indian.
    Aaronow: I’d never try to sell an Indian.
    Moss: You get those names come up, you ever get ‘em, “Patel"?
    Aaronow: Mmm . . .
    Moss: You ever get ‘em?
    Aaronow: Well, I think I had one once.
    Moss: You did?
    Aaronow: I . . . I don’t know.
    Moss: You had one you’d know it. Patel. They keep coming up. I don’t know. They like to talk to salesmen. (Pause.) They’re lonely, something. (Pause.) They like to feel superior, I don’t know. Never bought a fucking thing. You’re sitting down “The Rio Rancho this, the blah blah blah,” “The Mountain View—” “Oh yes. My brother told me that. . . .” They got a grapevine. Fuckin’ Indians, George. Not my cup of tea. Speaking of which I want to tell you something: (Pause) I never got a cup of tea with them. You see them in the restaurants. A supercilious race. What is this look on theirface all the time? I don’t know. (Pause.) I don’t know. Their broads all look like they just got fucked with a dead cat, I don’t know. (Pause.) I don’t know. I don’t like it. Christ . . .
    Aaronow: What?
    Moss: The whole fuckin’ thing . . . The pressure’s just too great. You’re ab . . . you’re absolu . . . they’re too important. All of them. You go in the door. I . . . “I got to close this fucker, or I don’t eat lunch,” “or I don’t win the Cadillac . . . .” We fuckin’ work too hard. You work too hard. We all, I remember when we were at Platt . . . huh? Glen Ross Farms . . . didn’t we sell a bunch of that . . . ?
    Aaronow: They came in and they, you know . . .
    Moss: Well, they fucked it up.
    Aaronow: They did.
    Moss: They killed the goose.
    Aaronow: They did.
    Moss: And now . . .
    Aaronow: We’re stuck with this . . .
    Moss: We’re stuck with this fucking shit . . .
    Aaronow: . . . this shit . . .
    Moss: It’s too . .
    Aaronow: It is.
    Moss: Eh?
    Aaronow: It’s too . . .
    Moss: You get a bad month, all of a . . .
    Aaronow: You’re on this . . .
    Moss: All of, they got you on this “board . . . ”
    Aaronow: I, I . . . I . . .
    Moss: Some contest board . . .
    Aaronow: I . . .
    Moss: It’s not right.
    Aaronow: It’s not.
    Moss: No. (Pause.)
    Aaronow: And it’s not right to the customers.
    Moss: I know it’s not. I’ll tell you, you got, you know, you got . . . what did I learn as a kid on Western? Don’t sell a guy one car. Sell him five cars over fifteen years.
    Aaronow: That’s right?
    Moss: Eh . . . ?
    Aaronow: That’s right?
    Moss: Goddamn right, that’s right. Guys come on: “Oh, the blah blah blah, I know what I’ll do: