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The Way Americans Talk Now Marie Kazalia First the wordless girl, smiling, standing beside, listening to a young guy in sad hip suit. Rapidly describing, for a friend holding a video-cam, —history in the making— how they'd cut open a plastic baby then filled the cavity with rolled bits of paper tied up with string, Wishes in writing. But the baby disappeared from the hot springs, where they were soaking, the bowl it floated in gone. But someone gave them a stuffed blue dragon. So they built a bon-fire made of kites, —a theater group— tossing on more and more kites. And the fire singed the dragon, and the shout went up, "It's the dragon's destiny." The burn mark in the exact shape of the plastic baby. All smiles as the three moved away, —pretending to be great— to catch their train.

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