KOSSOFF and a SECRETARY are hauling in chairs --
LAUREEN
(introducing to DIANA)
This is my lawyer, Sam Haywood,
and his associate, Robert Murphy --
Handshakes, nods, smiles, everybody begins to sit. The
SECRETARY goes around taking coffee orders
HAYWOOD
(an old union lawyer,
given to peroration)
Well, MS. Christenson, just what
the hell's this all about? Because
when a national television
network in the person of bubby
here --
(indicates HERRON)
-- comes to me and says he wants
to put the ongoing struggle of the
oppressed masses on prime-time
television, I have to regard this
askance --
More chairs are brought in. DIANA would answer HAYWOOD
but he booms along, beginning to hit his stride
HAYWOOD
I have to figure this as an
antithetical distraction. The
thesis here, if you follow me, is
that the capitalist state is in a
terminal condition now, and the
anti- thesis is the maturation of
the fascist state, and when the
correlative appendages of the
fascist state come and say to me
they want to give the revolution a
weekly hour of prime-time
television, I've got to figure this
is preventive co-optation, right? --
The necessary chairs are in by now, and everyone is
seated. The SECRETARY has gone off to fetch the coffee.
A sudden HUSH follows HAYWOOD's Hegelian instruction,
and DIANA would answer, but HAYWOOD is now center-stage,
into the full swell of rhetoric --
