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Trudy and Tina: Trudy begins talking to the aliens, and says she is planning to go to Stonehenge today with these "advanced" creatures. She complains that they look unseemly and lack eyelids, however. She recalls their journey into humanity's history, documenting the discovery of laughter and the first knock-knock joke. She reads amusing factoids off Post-It Notes, about: DNA, "You are what you think," Murphy's law applied to Newton's law, the uniqueness of our Miss Universe contest, the uniqueness of our playing to win, that human desire to take drugs is what mainly distinguishes us from lower animals. She meets Tina, a prostitute, who is apparently tripped out. Tina says she is not on drugs, but high on her own chemistry, and is thinking about going into detox. Trudy says the aliens are careful about what they put into their bodies, and that they are made of the same components as non-dairy creamer. We move back to Lud, Marie, and Agnus...

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