BUTT: Hey Beaver.

BEAVER: I'm working.

BUTT: Yeah but hey. Uhhh. Touch it.

BEAVER: Touch what.

BUTT: Heh heh. Just touch it.

BEAVER: I can't right now, there's a sound. You hear that? It's going through. It's supposed to go around and it's going through, so if I don't get the sticks in there by tonight then the whole left side gets soft, and then in like a month the whole—

BUTT: Beaver.

BUTT: Beaver. Touch it.

BEAVER: Touch what, Butt.

BUTT: Me. Touch me. Uhhh huh huh huh.

BEAVER: ...Why.

BUTT: Because that's the only way anybody finds out. Heh heh. You can't look at me. Looking at me doesn't tell you anything. You could look at me all day. Ask anybody who ever stood in a store looking at a peach — they're not looking, they're stalling, and then they touch it anyway because there's no other way to know.

BEAVER: Know what.

BUTT: If I'm ready. Heh heh heh. Or if you're early.

BEAVER: That's it?

BUTT: That's the whole thing. That's the entire teaching. It's in my body. I didn't come up with it, I just am it, and I'm the only one here who is, so.

BEAVER: ...

BUTT: Go on.

BEAVER: The water's still going through.

BUTT: Yeah.

BEAVER: It's gonna keep going through.

BUTT: Yeah. Heh heh.

BEAVER: And if I stop and do this, it's still gonna be going through after.

BUTT: Uh huh.

BEAVER: So there's no point where it's — there's no point where I get to—

BUTT: Nope. Heh heh heh.

BEAVER: ...

BEAVER: Okay.

[He touches it.]

BEAVER: Huh.

BUTT: Yeah.

BEAVER: It's warm.

BUTT: It's been out here the whole time, Beaver. It's been in the sun since like eleven.

BEAVER: I didn't know that.

BUTT: I know you didn't. Heh heh. You were doing the sticks.

BEAVER: ...

BEAVER: I'm gonna go do the sticks.

BUTT: Yeah, go do the sticks.

BEAVER: I'm gonna do them though.

BUTT: I know. Go on. Heh heh.

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