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Arthur: Silence, experience shows, is what terrifies people most.
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Woody Guthrie: [the jump cut into this scene occurs after Hobo Joe or Hobo Moe has, apparently, asked the 11-year-old African American boy who call himself Woody Guthrie where he's from] Well, Missouri, originally. A little town called Riddle.
Hobo Joe: [the rest of this dialogue is an almost exact paraphrase of dialogue from the 1957 film, A Face in the Crowd] Uh, is there really a town called Riddle?
Woody Guthrie: Well, tell you the flat truth, it's just a sort of a whatchamacallit, a...
Hobo Joe: ...A composite.
Woody Guthrie: Compost heap's more like it.
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Extended Reading
