Dear Ferret Folks- Yesterday, someone who truly appreciates the phenomenon that is Kim Fox wrote: >I'd like to help her look as beautiful as possible, for her upcoming >role as Captain Ahab. I believe I might even have a crochet hook or >two, if she decides she would rather play Captain Hook, in Peter Pan. >I was also thinking about the phone book lifts too.......and I think I >can do better than that!!! We have an unused pogo stick in the garage >that would enable her not only to level out, but to "bounce" around >instead of walking!!!! I'm telling you, that's what I want to live long enough to see....Kim Fox on the stage as Capitain Ahab while bouncing up and down on a pogo stick. Our scene opens with Kim as Ahab, on a pogo stick, in the capitains quarters, *itching at the First Mate of the ship Pequod, Starbuck. She is standing on the stick with her foot that is not in the prosthetic whalebone leg-piece that she must wear for the play, leaning against the wall and patting a ferret cradled in her arms. She is balancing against the cabin wall so she does not have to hop. KIM: "Devils!(gently dropping the ferret to the deck) Dost thou then so much as dare to critically think of me? - On deck!" STARBUCK: (Here played by Sukie, who is good at being deep)"Nay, Sir, not yet; I do entreat. And I do dare, Sir - to be forbearing! Shall we not understand each other better than hitherto, Captain Ahab?" KIM: ( Furiously pogoing over to the gun rack) Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men's cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck and pogoing madly to keep her balance, exclaimed: "There is one (pogo) God that is Lord (pogo) over the earth,(pogo) and one Captain (pogo) that is lord over (pogo) the Pequod.(pogo) - On deck!" STARBUCK: For an instant in the flashing eyes of the mate, and his fiery cheeks, you would have almost thought that he had really received the blaze of the levelled tube. But, mastering his emotion, he half calmly rose,(and shooed the ferret faway from under his boot) and as he quitted the cabin, paused for an instant and said: (wattles shaking with suppressed emotion) "Thou hast outraged, not insulted me, Sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man." KIM: "He waxes brave, (pogo) but nevertheless obeys; (pogo) most careful bravery that!" murmured Ahab, (pogoing) as Starbuck disappeared. "What's that he said (pogo)- Ahab beware of Ahab -(pogo) there's something there!" Then unconsciously using the musket for a staff, with an iron brow he paced (pogoed) to and fro in the little cabin; but presently the thick plaits of his forehead relaxed, and (pogoing) returning the gun to the rack, he went (pogoed) to the deck. (Fortunately, the pogoing did not set off the weapon.) "Thou art but too good (pogo) a fellow, Starbuck,"(pogo) he said lowly to the mate; (pogo-pogo) then raising his voice to the crew: "Furl the t'gallant-sails (pogo) and close-reef the top-sails, (pogo) fore and aft; (pogo) back the main-yard (pogo) up Burtons, and break out (pogo) in the main- hold." It were perhaps vain to surmise exactly why it was, that as respecting Starbuck, Ahab thus acted. It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient, in the important chief. And think- This is only *one* scene in the leviathin of a book that is Moby Dick. With added time for the lead on a pogo stick, it could last for hoooours... Alexandra in Ma [Posted in FML 5499]