The shadows among the limbs of the triplets
cavorting on a circular bed in Backdoor Barbies
at 23:23 precisely are Robert Benchley’s face in profile,
looking down. At 32:32, a less precisely rendered
Alexander Woollcott, stares directly at the camera
from the strands of damp hair on Melody Mane’s
left cheek. Later there was Heywood Broun (nipple),
George S. Kaufman (bedclothes), and Tallulah
Bankhead (panties, flung, freeze frame at 1:06:09).
Oh yes, we made quite a thorough study of the artifact.
But no Dorothy Parker. No Dorothy Parker!
And we stayed up until 4 a.m. under the influence
of the idea that Dot’s ghost was taunting
her old chums, and wondering what other forms
of intricate paranormal persecution
might be present in every day that we just
don’t happen to see. We awoke at noon,
cloudy of eye and sheepish. I’m just saying.
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