{"id":3698,"date":"2015-01-21T04:43:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2020-03-31T23:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T23:20:22","slug":"lenny-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=3698","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Bruce   [1925-1966]"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca &nbsp;Kids sniffing airplane glue &nbsp;\u21d3<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xSfk6nKSCcI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>There were kids eight or nine years old, they were sniffing aeroplane glue, to get high on.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>These kids are responsible for turning musicians onto a lot of things they never knew about actually. So, I had a fantasy, how it happened. Kid is alone in his room, it&#8217;s Saturday. Kid is played by George Macready,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00abNow lets see, I&#8217;m all alone in a room and it&#8217;s Saturday, I&#8217;ll make an aeroplane, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do. I&#8217;ll make a Lancaster: a good structural design, I&#8217;ll get the balsa wood here, cut it out, sand if off. Now a little aeroplane glue, I&#8217;ll rub it on the rag and&#8230; Hey now, ha ha ha. Ohh. I&#8217;m getting loaded! Is it possible to get loaded on aeroplane glue? Maybe it&#8217;s stuffy, I&#8217;ll call my dog over. Fidika! Come here darling and smell this rag. Smell it you freaky little doggy. Smell the rag Fidika, Fidika, Fidika!!! He&#8217;s up there. I&#8217;ve done it. I&#8217;m the Louis Pasteur of junkiedom. Out of my skull for 10 cents. Well there&#8217;s much work to be done now. Horses hoofs to melt down. Noses to get ready.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cut to the toy store. Any toy store. Any neighbourhood &#8211; Kid walks in. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00abHello Chandler, nice store you got here. Gimme a nickels worth of pencils. Big boy tablet. Ju-ju beans. Tailspin Tommy book&#8230; and 2000 tubes of aeroplane glue.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00ab<strong>I hope you can sleep tonight Mr&nbsp;Macready.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca &nbsp;\u00abSouthern Accents\u00bb &nbsp;\u2193<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s6g5t0O6gaM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The whole South &#8230; shit &#8230; The South&#8217;s a different country and the people speak a different language. And because when we talk loud, that&#8217;s right; but if I go &#8230;<em>\u00abBAH-BAH-BAH&#8230;\u00bb,<\/em> that is mad; but in the South everybody goes&#8230;<em>\u00abBAH-BAH-BAH&#8230;\u00bb<\/em>, and then I&#8217;m mad, because there was talk that way. When we&#8230; when you talk to us and we go &#8230; <em>\u00abHa-ha-ha&#8230;\u00bb,<\/em> that&#8217;s shitty up north; in the south, if you know, go&#8230;<em>\u00abHa-ha-ha&#8230;\u00bb<\/em> you&#8217;re not a good fellow; and you&#8217;re not jovial and you&#8217;re not &#8230; So when we see the picture in a Southern porch where everybody&#8217;s smiling, we take a&#8230; <em>\u00abLook at that&#8230; Is that solemn? Those schmucks see a camera and smile&#8230;\u00bb<\/em> So it&#8217;s a better idea to [. . . ?] it sounds up this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;<em>Anybody talks that way, if anybody talks that way to me, I can do one&#8230;&#8217;<\/em> No, it&#8217;s &#8216;<em>&#8230;I&#8217;d immediately &#8230; I&#8217;m worried about his safety&#8230; Because I know I&#8217;m superior to him, because I&#8217;m brighter, because I know that I talk closer to this way than he does&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>[. . . ?] and about talk that way is&#8230; it&#8217;s always for people who don&#8217;t understand it. If Albert Einstein talked that way, we would&#8217;ve never had a bomb: <em>\u00abMy name is Albert Einstein; my&nbsp;&nbsp;[. . . ?] &nbsp;theory, you get out of here you shit &#8211; kick you&#8230; Look here, buddy, I got a theory here &#8230;\u00bb<\/em> So embarrassing of people . . .<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca &nbsp;\u00abTo is a Preposition; &nbsp;Come is a Verb\u00bb<\/h5>\n<p>Of course <em>\u00abto\u00bb<\/em> is <strong>not<\/strong> a preposition here; don\u00b4t get confused with Lenny Bruce&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cyY5rBvD0LI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8216;To&#8217;<\/strong> is a preposition; <strong>&#8216;come&#8217;<\/strong> is a verb. The verb, intransitive&#8230; <em>&#8216;to come&#8217; &#8230; &#8216;to come&#8217;<\/em>. I heard these two words my whole adult life and as a kid when they thought I was sleeping: <em><strong>\u00abto come . . . to come &#8230;\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> Spin like a drum solo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00abDid you come? Did you come good? Did you come good? Did you come good? Did you come good? [&#8230;?]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00abB<em>etter off with you sweetheart than anyone in the whole god damn world . . . Really came so good. And I came so good because I love you. Really came so good&#8230; I come better with you sweetheart than anyone in the whole world&#8230; I really came so good&#8230; so good &#8230; but don&#8217;t come in me&#8230; Don&#8217;t come in me. Don&#8217;t come in me&#8230; me&#8230; me&#8230; me. Don&#8217;t come in me-me-me-me&#8230; Don&#8217;t come in me. Don\u00b4t come in me &#8211; in me don&#8217;t come in &#8230; in me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00abI can&#8217;t come. &#8216;Cause you don&#8217;t love me; that&#8217;s why I can&#8217;t come &#8230;&nbsp;<\/em><em>I love you &#8211; just can&#8217;t come, that&#8217;s my hang-up, I can&#8217;t come when I&#8217;m loaded, all right? &#8216;Cause you don&#8217;t love me.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00abGee what the hell is the matter with you? What&#8217;s that got to do with loving, you just can&#8217;t come, that&#8217;s all.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is there anyone in this room with the world, find those two words decadent, obscene, immoral, amoral, asexual&#8230; the words <em>\u00abto come\u00bb<\/em> really make you feel uncomfortable, if you think I&#8217;m wrong for saying it to you, you&#8217;d be for listening to it&#8230; he probably can&#8217;t come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u25ca &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennybruceofficial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lenny Bruce<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2193&nbsp;as shown in doc &#8216;Swear to Tell the Truth&#8217;<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DYlCfRiOEhM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00abLet me tell you the truth. &nbsp;The truth is: &nbsp;what is and what should be as a fantasy, a terrible terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.\u00bb<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/bruce\/bruceaccount.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/bruce\/bruceaccount.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u2022\u2192 &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p0CKoz0u6Eo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dustin Hoffman as &#8216;Lenny&#8217; in&nbsp;1974 Bob Fosse&#8217;s biographical movie&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;\u21d0<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2665 &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jo-wu2okc2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Eulogy to Lenny Bruce&#8217;<\/a> &nbsp;\u21d3<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Nico<\/strong>&#8216;s 1967 album <em>Chelsea Girl<\/em> includes this mournful tune,&nbsp;written by <strong>Tim Hardin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NzIIvuSr3gc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve lost a friend and I don&#8217;t know why<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>But never again will we get together to die.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And why after every last shot, was there always another ?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Why after all you hadn&#8217;t got, &nbsp;did you leave your life to your mother ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And Honey Harlow, the singer burlesque queen<br \/>\nHow did she know &nbsp;you needed morphine ?<br \/>\nWhy didn&#8217;t you listen to the warning words of your friends<br \/>\nwhile they told you so ?<br \/>\nI know you couldn&#8217;t listen to people talk about<br \/>\nwhat they didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vKMi6RzThs0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25ca &nbsp;Kids sniffing airplane glue &nbsp;\u21d3 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were kids eight or nine years old, they were sniffing aeroplane glue, to get high on.&nbsp;These kids are responsible for turning musicians onto a lot of things they never knew about actually. So, I had a fantasy, how it happened. 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