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By Jack Joseph Smith

3. We hear; "hey Dooling." God damm your crazy ass; get up here!" We hear; "working I.P." We hear; "god damm it Dooling, it's Miller to you." We hear; "yes, I.P. Miller, I'm working! We hear; "shit!" I.P. Miller is moving across the high planks. Black hair, black shoulder coat, black eyes, black mouth from good drink. He really believes he has found out where Dooling is. We know him when he stops in his tracks. He is the man that when he is through with business waits two hours before he smiles. Dooling is moving off to anouther spot. Miller yells. "Get up here." We are seeing beneath and above. "I'm working." Miller moves over the planks again to the sound. "Now, right now." Fifty paces over, "working!" Miller walking hard talking to what he owns. "Drunk, your drunk. You think this is the wild- neress Dooling. Drunk. Your Drunk. Now get up here!" "Working." We are watching top and bottom. Miller one place, Dooling another. "You can't run the boilers tonight Dooling any more than I can. I got the report on your shouting drunking poetry at eleven thirty, and now I am here two hours later. Does that give you any idea idea about what I am talking about." "Working." We are on Dooling and he is remote. "Your full of shit now Dooling." This is a one hundred year old timber mill, and we move back into consciousness just as Dooling's boss knows he is a friend as walk-

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The film narrator follows a confrontation between Dooling and I.P. Miller among the timber mill's high planks and boilers. Miller challenges Dooling about drinking and shouting poetry while Dooling repeats that he is working.

The narrator shows the two characters at different heights and locations while their exchange continues. The repeated reply keeps Dooling remote from Miller's demands. The scene ends mid-word and continues on the next page.

Claude

Film page '3.': a shouted exchange in which Miller calls 'god damm it Dooling, it's Miller to you.' and Dooling answers 'Working.', ending with the mill boss who 'knows he is a friend as walk-'.

The repeated 'Working.' turns a confrontation about drinking on the job into a standoff that the page leaves unfinished.