So you like taxidermy, no?
Yeah, I do. I find it very peaceful. Sort of allows me to shut the world out.
"Shut the world out"?
Yeah, sometimes when I'm in the world, I feel almost like there's this annoying sort of buzzing that just won't stop. And then I get down here with my animals, and it all goes silent.
It's interesting. Tell me more about that. Of the "buzzing" you experience.
Well, it's like a world full of people. So many people, all with opinions and judgments and arrogance and theories. People who think that they help people. And they're pointless. None of them know anything. You might as well listen to a woodpecker pecking in a tree. Can I ask you something now?
Of course, shoot.
How was it, sleeping with my mother?
What makes you think I slept with your mother, Norman?
Let's just say I've known her a long time.
And would it bother you if someone slept with your mother?
Let's see, if your mother ran out on you and your brother one night, didn't tell you where she was going or when she was coming back, and then threw herself, like a whore, into the bed of someone she barely knows, some licensed family therapist who could probably lose his license for such behavior, but that's not really the point... Would all of that behavior bother you?
Yes, it might.
So what was she like?
That's not an appropriate question, Norman.
Come on. We're both men here. It's not like we don't know what goes on. Did she give too easily?
You know, I think we're done here.
What, are you uncomfortable? Huh? 'Cause I know? 'Cause I can imagine what it was like? Did you really think that you'd come down here and it would be your little secret? "Oh, we banged each other, but now let's send you downstairs to fix crazy Norman".
Norman, why do you care so much who your mother might be sleeping with? What does it mean? That she could be attracted to someone? Does that take her away from you? Norman, do you want to sleep with her?
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