Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations Read Free Page A

You're going home?
    DEBORAH : Do you want me to?
    DANNY : Only if you want to. Do you want to?
    DEBORAH : Do you want me to stay? I don't know if it's such a good idea that I stay here tonight.
    DANNY : Why? (Pause.) I'd like you to stay. If you'd like to.
    DEB nods .
    DANNY : Well, then, all right, then. Huh? (Pause.)
    DEBORAH : I like your apartment.
    DANNY : Yeah? I'm glad.
    DEBORAH : I like it here.
    DANNY : So, look, so tell me. How would you like to eat dinner with me tomorrow. If you're not doing anything. If you're not too busy. If you're busy it's not important.
    DEBORAH : I'd love to eat dinner with you tomorrow.
    DANNY : You would, huh?
    DEBORAH : Yes.
    DANNY : Well, okay, that's nice. That's very nice. I'm going to look forward to that.
    DEBORAH : I could come over here and cook.
    DANNY : You could.
    DEBORAH : Yes.
    DANNY : You could come over here and cook dinner, you'd like to do that?
    DEBORAH : Yes.
    DANNY : We could do that . . .
    DEBORAH : Sure.
    DANNY : Yeah. We could do that. (Pause.) Let's do that.
    DEBORAH : Okay. (Pause.) I'm not really a Lesbian.
    DANNY : No?
    DEBORAH : But I have had some Lesbianic experiences.
    DANNY : What, like going to bed with other women?
    DEBORAH : . . . and I enjoyed them.
    DANNY (pause): Well, sure. (Pause.) You going to sleep?
    DEBORAH (sleepily): Yes.
    DANNY (Pause): You having a good time?
    DEBORAH (sleepily): Yes.
    DANNY : That's good. (Pause.) Goodnight.
    DEBORAH : Goodnight.
    Pause.
    DANNY : See you in the morning.

    The next morning, DEB and JOAN at their apartment . DEB enters .
    JOAN : So what's he like?
    DEBORAH : Who?
    JOAN : Whoever you haven't been home, I haven't seen you in two days that you've been seeing.
    DEBORAH : Did you miss me?
    JOAN : No. Your plants died. (Pause.) I'm kidding. What's his name.
    DEBORAH : Danny.
    JOAN : What's he do?
    DEBORAH : He works in the Loop.
    JOAN : How wonderful for him.
    DEBORAH : He's an Assistant Office Manager.
    JOAN : That's nice, a job with a little upward mobility.
    DEBORAH : Don't be like that, Joan.
    JOAN : I'm sorry. I don't know what got into me.
    DEBORAH : How are things at school?
    JOAN : Swell. Life in the Primary Grades is a real picnic. The other kindergarten teacher got raped Tuesday.
    DEBORAH : How terrible.
    JOAN : What?
    DEBORAH : How terrible for her.
    JOAN : Well, of course it was terrible for her. Good Christ, Deborah, you really amaze me sometimes, you know that?

    A bar . BERNARD is seated at the bar; he is waiting.
    BERNIE : What do you have to do to get a drink in this place, come on a cracker?
    DAN and DEB appear at the entrance to the bar.
    DANNY : You're going to like Bernie, you're going to like him a lot. Ah! Ask him to tell you about Korea, he has got some stories you are not going to believe.
    BERNARD spots them.
    BERNIE : Yo! Siddown, siddown, so what are you having?
    They all sit down at a table .
    DANNY : Deborah?
    DEBORAH : Jack Daniels on the Rocks.
    BERNIE : So she knows what she's talking about, huh? (To DEB ) Black or Green?
    DEBORAH : Black.
    BERNIE : Okay. And you?
    DANNY : The same.
    BERNIE : Right back. (He goes to bar.)
    DANNY : Well, that's Bernie.
    DEBORAH : Seems like a nice enough sort of fellow.
    DANNY : Hell of a guy.
    DEBORAH : Is he coming with us to the movies?
    BERNARD comes back with drinks.
    BERNIE : So, actually, I'm Bernard Litko; friend and associate of your pal, Danny. And you're Deborah.
    DEBORAH : Deborah Soloman.
    BERNIE : Danny's been telling me a lot about you.
    DEBORAH : We only met Wednesday.
    BERNIE : He talks about you constantly.
    DEBORAH : No!
    BERNIE : Yes.
    DEBORAH : What does he say?
    BERNIE : All the usual things.
    Pause.
    DANNY : Bernie was in Korea.
    DEBORAH : Really?
    BERNIE : Yeah. You see M * A * S * H on TV? (Pause.) It all looks like that. There isn't one square inch of Korea that doesn't look like that. (Pause.) I'm not kidding. (Pause.)
    DEBORAH : When were you there?
    BERNIE : ‘67.
    DEBORAH : Really? What were you doing in Korea in