Harrell: You just told me that you think our house is like a snake, why do you say that?

Beatrice: Kind of like a snake.

H: What do you mean?

B: What lives in Alabamo?

H: Do you mean Alabama?

B: Uh huh.

H: Well, people live there, animals.

B: What kind, what kind of animals?

H: Maybe there are alligators there.

B: I think some monkeys and bears would live there.

H: What makes you think that?

B: Silence. (She said the word “silence”)

H: Are you telling me to be silent or are you saying that silence makes monkeys and bears?

B: I’m saying that silence makes monkeys and bears, why does it make monkeys and bears?

H: You’re the one that said that, I don’t know anything about that.

B: But what about a flutterfly?

H: I’ve never heard of a flutterfly. Is it like a butterfly?

B: Yes, but it has wing magic. Our house is kind of like a star.

H: Why is it like a star?

B: Because it is a triangle-zoup.

H: What is a triangle-zoup?

B: A triangle-zoup is when you zoup, and then make a triangle.

H: What do you think about the music on the radio right now?

B: Classical music.

H: Do you like classical music?

B: Five.

H: Five?

B: Classical music makes me think of five.

H: What?

B: Five people resisted, and we are five people, are we five?

H: What do you mean five people resisted?

B: We resisted.

H: Resisted what?

B: I’m just joking.

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