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BODEVAN:

Ask her what she thinks about the

working people creating an armedrevolution against the exploitingclasses and their state structures?

BEN:

Marxists can be just as genocidalas.... No. Just... I don't know.

Talk about

BODEVAN:

Whether or not she's a Dialectical

Materialist and accords primacy tothe class struggle?

BEN:

Avoid... Marxism. Or telling heryou're a Trotskyite.

BODEVAN:

"Trotskyist." Only a Stalinist wouldcall a Trotskyist a "Trotskyite." AndI'm not a Trotskyist anymore. I'm aMaoist.

Ben nods. He hands Bo a key and Bo walks away.

The STORE OWNER comes out and hands Ben a wad of cash.

STORE OWNER:

Sold all the stuff from last time.

You said you’d be back months ago.

12 INT. POST OFFICE. DAY. 12

Bo opens a large post office box. Inside, the box is packedwith mail. There are the new issues of "Scientific American,"

"National Geographic," "The New Yorker," and "The Economist."

And then a stack of large envelopes.

Bo looks at the first one. It's marked, "PRINCETON

UNIVERSITY."

13 INT. POST OFFICE. DAY. 13

In another corner of the post office, Bo holds up a piece of

paper.

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It reads, "We are pleased to welcome you to Harvard

University, the class of 2015."

He looks at the other envelopes, all now opened, spread onthe counter before him. They are from Dartmouth, Brown,

M.I.T., Yale, and Stanford.

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