You are about to meet Salem and Kent, coming to you straight out of Lansingville, the Land of Hope and Dreams, where the West was won...They're trying to construct a life that makes sense out of the things they find in gift shops, except the gift shops where they're going don't offer much solace from what's rotten in the state of America...the Greatest Society on Earth is on its way downhill and Ringmaster Johnson is sinking with it...our 'tourists' are eating from the table of Uncle Sam, except they've ingested something that doesn't agree with them...THEY'RE HOLDING THE FLAG WITH BOTH HANDS AND WIPING THEIR ASS WITH IT AT THE SAME TIME - because dysentery isn't pretty and this allegory isn't simple...They want to get OUT not IN...There WILL be oedipal overtones and the phone WILL ring even though the wires have been cut because Salem and Kent are losing control of the situation, not just their bowels. They_x0019_ re railing against sterility - the deadliest social poison - but they_x0019_ re paying the price for the foolishness that insures their defeat against the rigidly stubborn world of ritual, a world they mistakenly believe they can condense into a tourist experience. Our sun-worshipping American tourists will be played off against primitive Mexicans and it looks like fun and games until Salem actually tries to SELL the boy to you& ...You are about to see, in what is the greatest tale of transformation since Metamorphosis (it's not, doo wop wop) and the most profound social commentary since The Crucible (it isn't, shoop shoop shoop), American hubris hurtling through pseuedoscience and pagan rituals to a cruel conclusion&
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