CAROL:

But....

WIZARD:

They have passed laws against this Carol,
and it has only made matters vastly worse
because they are the wrong kind of laws.
Its just not enough to be against something.
You've got to be for something and no
matter what most people think we do not
need more laws against things around here.
Its time to start passing laws which
are for something.

CUT TO:

INTERIOR......CAVE.....TORCH LIGHT

The wizard leads Bruce down a torch lighted passage.

WIZARD:

For you we have something special. I
must say, it took a little doing,
but I think its just the thing.

Oh you're not so hot blooded as Jim.
You wouldn't leap up with a rifle and
go hunting grizzly bears on a cliff
because they pissed you off. No, but
you'd do things a lot worse and not
because you were afraid or angry like
your friend. No, you'd do them in cold
blood because with you its rebellion.

BRUCE:

Rebellion?

WIZARD:

Oh come now, it's Carol who is the Champion
of all causes, but you, with you we get into
not only outright defiance of conventional
authority but with the actual flirtation with
evil, even with death itself. That is
why you drink in considerable part.

So, says I, why monkey around with the tame
stuff. If the boy wants to play why not
give him a go at the real thing?
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