Vernita Nemec: Private Places (0:37)
An excerpt from an installation for The Second Coming, a show by Carnival Knowledge at Franklin Furnace.
Listen to track 3:
(https://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus_2.html) -- Hudson
[AN: Transcript for the hard of hearing - a soft woman's voice says "I wanna talk to you about something. (pause) I found something in your drawer, and I'm very upset by it. (pause) I don't know quite what to think. (pause) But... um... I think you should destroy them. I don't want to have to tell your father. I don't want to have to show your father. (pause) I won't ask you where you got the ideas for them." On a more personal note, this particular half of a conversation sounds like it came directly from an authoritarian household with overtones of sexism in the mix.]
That tore it. She had to get out of this house. Her mother had found her secret accessories. Not by accident, either. Dale had hid them in a shoebox in the very back of the only drawer that had a lock in her entire room. She didn't just find them, she went looking.
Dale came to the sinking realisation that her parents had set up this one secret place to discover what she might want to hide from them.
She took a deep breath and said, "Okay. I'll get rid of them today." Quick improvisation made her add, "I'll find somewhere far away so nobody finds them in our trash." That gave her plenty of excuses to be away from the house for a while. If she believed in whatever her parents worshipped, she'd thank God that she always kept the locker key on her person and out of sight.
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