Doctor Dracula Page #4

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No last name?

- Did you want one?

- No, not necessarily.

Let me see

if I can guess.

Oh, I see the same

turn in the nose,

the full upper lip.

- You know joanie.

- I knew joanie.

I don't know

where she is now.

You know, no one here

will talk about anyone.

It's a kind

of self-preservation.

Between urban renewal and the

country welfare department,

we get bombarded

with questions in relays.

Your ears get

curled on the inside.

What do you mean

you knew joanie?

What I mean is in this part of town,

everyone knows everyone

- in one way or another.

- But how did I get here?

Come on,

i won't hurt you.

They brought you here.

That's Samantha.

She goes with that

goofy-looking kid over there.

He's strange. That's his name--

also classification.

- You sound rather cynical.

- Nota bit.

It's just

an observation.

That's my bag. I make

observations for later replay,

like the football game on TV.

Man:

Hey, Mike!

They found a guy chopped up

down at rocky point!

It was all in bloody

bits and pieces!

- Vvhat are you talking about?

- They never found his girlfriend though.

Guy can't make out

in peace anymore.

Man, it's a real bummer.

It's not usually this gory

on the premises.

- Maybe we'd better go inside.

- No, wait.

Justa little bit

more fresh air.

Okay, come on.

Like I told you,

she didn't say much.

We saw her on the beach

about six months ago.

That's just about

the time she left home.

This section of the beach draws

a lot of weary, conscious people.

They can take those deep breaths

they've been dreaming about.

Joanie was up

by the amusement park.

That was the big

attraction.

The big attraction?

She used to have

fantasies about--

about being a freak.

A freak?

Oh, I can't believe that.

Two heads,

an eye missing,

an elongated spine" anything that

vvas grotesque, it turned her on.

Well, that-- that's not

the whole story.

The idea was

to turn into

something beautiful

by using some

magical formula.

That's why

she used to

hang around

that creature emporium.

What in the world

is a creature emporium?

A leftover from the

sidewalk carnival days,

run bya Dr. duryea.

At least,

that's the name he uses.

You mean this place

is a house of freaks?

Oh, everything's phony.

It's strictly for the tourists.

On the other hand,

i suppose

it all depends on what

you're really looking for.

Joanie was looking

for her own special fantasy.

This just doesn't

sound like joanie.

So we greet the world

of Dr. duryea.

It's nothing

but a cheap sideshow.

I told you it's strictly

for the tourists.

Mike, I don't want

to go in there.

There's nothing I can find out

about joanie in a place like that.

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