English Subject #13


@begin
@participants: s13 subject13 narrator
@id: eng.pinc.engsubj13.0000.s13
@language: english
@sex of s13: male
@transcriber: Karen Duvall
@location: tape4 side1 number2

    *s13: ok, it's ah
    @fp # [//] it's a little girl talking to a little fish, or rather being talk to by a fish. *s13: and there's the cat in the hat. *s13: and he was looking rather solemn. *s13: and # his hat is very droopy. *s13: and he's # saying something, eyes are closed. *s13: he's got this really tragic look on his face. *s13: he pulled the hat down over his head. *s13: and now he # is spread-eagle, just so dejected. *s13: the hat just collapsed down around to his ankles. *s13: and # wow, this is really gettin(g) freaky [=! laughing]. *s13: he's trying to gesture while in the hat. *s13: and now he's becoming a snake and going away. *s13: and # well, now he's coming back in the other side of the screen. *s13: and # he's now become really long in the hat. *s13: and # now he's missing his body. *s13: his head and arms are sticking out of the bottom of the hat. *s13: and # well, now it's just his arms. *s13: and he's picking [=! laughing] up # the [=! laughing] # hat that's lying in front of him, draping it around him like it's hair # or maybe a bonnet. *s13: and ah
    @fp # the background's rather # reddish. *s13: and now he's pulling it # along with his head into him, which is # not quite possible [=! laughing]. *s13: now it's just the hat lying collapsed on the floor and now he's back standing there with the hat droopy. *s13: and the fish is in the bowl, sticking its head out, you know screaming something at him. *s13: it's a rather cute fish. *s13: ah
    @fp, making these very vague gestures towards the cat. *s13: and the cat just has this really snooty attitude towards the fish. *s13: and he's # waving his fingers, saying ah
    @fp how dare you, or something like that. *s13: patting the fish on the head like a little child. *s13: and then the fish just sits there so # relaxed and almost indignant [*] actually.
    %err: indignant = indifferent [?] ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.340 ok checked *s13: the cat just put the fish in the bowl on top of the piano. *s13: and is again poin(ting) jabbing his finger almost, not even pointing, [//] jabbing.
    %comment: ctc E.13.341 ok checked *s13: while the fish just stands there with his # hand [*] on his, his head on his elbow [*], I mean his hand you know.
    %err: head = hand $cor; elbow = hand $cor;
    %comment: ctc E.13.342 ok , ctc E.13.343 ok checked *s13: ah
    @fp a cat's now about to play the piano. *s13: and the fish looks very impatient and tapping his fingers, as the cat is starting to play again, but still isn't. *s13: and # the fish just looks so depressed and bored and waiting. *s13: and the cat's still muttering something. *s13: the background's bright yellow. *s13: the two kids, [//] you know the little boy and the little girl. *s13: the little girl has a red bow in her head [*], hair [=! laughing].
    %err: head = hair $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.344 ok checked *s13: ah
    @fp, they're just looking on. *s13: the cat, [/] oh, the cat just placed a [/] ah
    @fp a teddy bear right next to thee # ah
    @fp # bowl. *s13: and the cat seems to be fishing [*] [//] # &pshshsh fishing singing to the fish, and we just taking a shot from the fish's perspective.
    %err: fishing = singing $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.345 ok checked *s13: and the cat seems to be fading in and out, as &th the fish is falling asleep. *s13: ah
    @fp # the cat's now actually playing the piano and singing. *s13: the fish is slowly dozing off [//] # and just drifted to sleep in the bottom of the bowl with &s this so such as serene look on his face.
    %comment: ctc E.13.346 ok checked *s13: I'm assuming it's a him. *s13: now the cat and the two kids just snuck-out and closed the door behind them. *s13: they're in what looks to be a kitchen with a swin(g) [//] double swinging doors that swings both in and out at the same time. *s13: and the cat now has this really # suave you know # look on his face. *s13: and he's just very # +... *s13: wait, now he's very # thoughtful and pacing back and forth in front of the refrigerator. *s13: no, he has an idea and he pulls off his hat, but there's another hat in [*] it, u:h
    @fp underneath it.
    %err: in = underneath $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.347 ok checked *s13: pulls a cube out of it. *s13: now the cube's growing # in his hand. *s13: and now it's # rather large, about the size of a dishwasher. *s13: and he's leaning on it now. *s13: it's on the floor. *s13: ah
    @fp, # he's rattling on it. *s13: and # making music again, sort of like a conductor directing. *s13: and the children are so amused. *s13: their # heads are bobbing back and forth, from side to side in exact motion, you know, sync, in sync there we go.
    %comment: ctc E.13.348 ok checked *s13: and ah
    @fp # the cat's now leaning over it again. *s13: and opened the box and out of it # come out numbers one and two with purplish-bluish hair. *s13: and # ah
    @fp they have # red sweaters, actually red jumpsuits on them [//] one and two. *s13: and they just ah
    @fp # rattling around and they just ah
    @fp, threw the fish up into the air. *s13: and the little boy barely caught the fish. *s13: and the fish just jumped out of the bowl and ran to the phone [=! laughing]. *s13: I think he's dialing nine-one-one. *s13: actually, he just, no he's dialing some four digit number that I can't tell what it was, sorry. *s13: ah
    @fp, he's talking into the phone, which is rather funny because he's not even in the bowl anymore. *s13: ah
    @fp, he's making these really vague, not vague, really aggressive gestures.
    %comment: ctc E.13.349 ok checked *s13: now he's hitting the phone. *s13: and ah
    @fp # he's seems to be complaining a lot about the cat in the hat and maybe one and two. *s13: and one, either one and two just stuck his head # out of the &re you know the [/] the receiver of phone. *s13: and the fish just jumped back into the bowl. *s13: and number two just stole the bowl, # is bowling, actually it's &re probably curling. *s13: no it's bowling, sorry. *s13: there are the pins. *s13: and one just caught the ball. *s13: yeah, the pins were ah
    @fp # milk bottles set-up like pins. *s13: two's now running around with number [*] # with the fish as a kite.
    %err: number = fish $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.350 ok checked *s13: it's rather amusing [=! laughing]. *s13: ah
    @fp the two [//], number one and two are really nasty things. *s13: and # ouch, here comes the fish. *s13: now the little boy saved the fish, otherwise he might have &f slammed into the ceiling.
    %comment: ctc E.13.351 ok checked *s13: the little boy is doing a damn good job as a hero here. *s13: ah
    @fp # the cat in the hat is just totally happy about this. *s13: and number one is now on top of the refrigerator. *s13: number two just took thee # fish and bowl back from thee # boy. *s13: now they're playin(g) football. *s13: they're countin(g) off the numbers, hike. *s13: number two's [*] # now one's fallin(g) back as quarterback.
    %err: two's = one's ;
    %comment: not in original data *s13: oh no, he just went down the stairs. *s13: number two was supposed to be receiver but # well, number one never got to throw the ball. *s13: this, probably some noises coming from downstairs, you know, where number one fell down. *s13: but he comes back up and he's playing hockey with the bowl, instead. *s13: oh of course, fish still in it. *s13: numbers, and the goalie is now the little boy. *s13: and one and two are just went right past him, # right through the door.
    %comment: ctc E.13.352 ok corrected (misspelled word) *s13: ok, and now it's ah
    @fp, they're playin(g) basketball. *s13: and &s # yeah, number one's got it and he puts it up. *s13: ah, it's good [!!!]. *s13: of course, # the little boy just caught it, [//] # the bowl, then the water, then the fish. *s13: they separated in midair. *s13: he fell though because the rug was a little too slippery. *s13: and now the # bowl is goin(g), slidin(g) right past the cat in the hat, the little girl who +... *s13: cat in the hat's leaning on ah
    @fp # folded up umbrella now. *s13: the fish just jumped out of the bowl, is now # walking rather aggressively towards the cat in the hat, looks up at him # kicks out the umbrella. *s13: the cat in the hat just goes thump
    @o right on the floor. *s13: ooh, this is gonna be good. *s13: just pulled out a whisker I think. *s13: at least that's what it looked to be. *s13: and now the fish is really # like # tearing into the cat in the hat &th. *s13: cat in the hat's just like # has this # "I'm just having fun, trying to get you to sleep or help you sleep." *s13: and the fish just threw a temper tantrum and is really making massive gestures for the fish [*], for the cat to leave.
    %err: fish = cat $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.353 ok checked *s13: just got back into the bowl. *s13: and # he's really just rather boring actually right now. *s13: ah
    @fp, # he's still making [*].
    %err: any gestures = any new gestures, gestures [?] ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.354 ok checked *s13: the cat looks so, [/] so # hurt, and dejected, and # so sorrowful. *s13: he just put the bowl back on top of the dresser. *s13: ah
    @fp # and the fish is still screaming at thee ah
    @fp # cat in the hat. *s13: and the hat [*] is trying to &def, the cat in the hat is trying to defend himself.
    %err: hat = cat $cor ;
    %comment: E.13.355 ok checked *s13: pointing at his hat for some odd reason, as if the hat is maybe some demon who's controlling him. *s13: and he's ah
    @fp, # now talking to the little girl and doing a little jig for some odd reason. *s13: and it's not a very good dance either, but that's okay. *s13: ah
    @fp, # he just took off the hat and now he's wearing a french beret, rather than his top hat [=! laughing]. *s13: I [/] I don't know about you, but I like the ah
    @fp top hat better. *s13: one and two are now two cancan dancers. *s13: and # well, they don't have the numbers one their chests anymore. *s13: well, they h:ave it [//] on their backside, thing one and thing two. *s13: ok, I didn't know they were called things before. *s13: ah
    @fp, now he just took off # thee # beret. *s13: and now he's got a sombrero. *s13: and so does the little boy and the little girl. *s13: and they're # you know, dancing like little mexican or spanish dancers, probably mexican considering # xx it's mexican. *s13: ah
    @fp xxx, all right he took of:f # thee # sombrero and put down anoth(er) and he still has another one. *s13: and he's [//] dancing around the sombrero now, the cat in the hat that is, sorry. *s13: every time I refer to a hat, it's usually the cat in the hat. *s13: he just took off the sombrero. *s13: and it's # thee top hat again. *s13: and of course it [//] it's got its usual bend in it. *s13: and he # just took that off of him &g, has now a ah
    @fp sombrero again. *s13: and now he's got a swiss # alpine hat. *s13: and he's at the [//] thee piano and he's playing it again. *s13: ah
    @fp the [*] kids are standing there at ease, ya know, just right [*] right next to the piano.
    %err: little two = two little [?] ; in fron(t) = next to $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.356 ok , ctc E.13.357 ok checked *s13: so, totally attentive, drawn in by him. *s13: thing one and thing two are now # doing a little supposedly swiss jig, wearing swiss alpine hats. *s13: ah
    @fp, xxx # ok, this +... *s13: now we're actually seeing all the notes coming out as the cat in the hat plays the piano. *s13: and now he's standing here as the notes come up behind him. *s13: and # he's the only thing in the &b [//], you know it's just him in the background with the notes creeping up from behind. *s13: and they just # change in the color of the background. *s13: and now he's like an eskimo # in [/] in the frozen tundra. *s13: and the fish is [/] muttering some more. *s13: the fish really is a grumpess
    @n, [//] really annoying thing. *s13: but ah
    @fp, # the little kids now are all are also in thee # eskimo scene. *s13: and she's got a muff. *s13: he doesn't though of course because men are not supposed to have muffs. *s13: or at least little boys aren't. *s13: thing one and thing two just ducked into a [//] an igloo. *s13: and # the kids are going along with thing one and thing two now. *s13: they're pulling the dog sled that the kids are on. *s13: ah
    @fp # the fish is making some comments about [*] the uh
    @fp, to the cat in the hat.
    %err: about = to $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.358 ok checked *s13: and he's putting on all the little hats that the cat in the hat has switched around to. *s13: he looks rather good in the swiss alpiner's hat by the way. *s13: it # doesn't, [//] the eskimo suit doesn't work for him though. *s13: uh
    @fp, # he's just ah
    @fp, [//] # he just switched into a hat that I didn't see the cat in the hat with. *s13: I don't know what it is though. *s13: it's sort of this, it [//] it's like the top hat but very furry. *s13: and ah
    @fp, # xxx yes the cat in the hat just pulled the hat down over his head. *s13: and now has a copy of that hat that the fish showed him. *s13: it looks to be, sort of a # I don't know, ah
    @fp, can't describe it. *s13: I don't know how to explain it. *s13: it's just # [/] it's just a furry cylinder # with red and white bans across it. *s13: you know, horizontally # across. *s13: and now, # ah
    @fp # the cat [/] the cat in the hat's doing a [/] # a little a, # I don't know what to describe this dance as. *s13: but, he just went out the door and slammed into a few things, obviously ah
    @fp causing a lot of trouble as usual. *s13: and the curtains just closed. *s13: and thing one and thing two are now in, # what looks to be ancient persian , ya know, dress or something.
    %err: dess = dress $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.359 ok checked *s13: and the kids are in scottish garb, and they're doing a little sword dance, or something like that. *s13: and they're rather good. *s13: and the cat in the hat is now, # ah
    @fp [=! laughing], # playing the bagpipes. *s13: and he [/] he [/] he seems to gettin(g) the wrong idea (be)cause &h [//] his hat is inflating, not the bag. *s13: uh
    @fp, now he's skiing on thee # on red and white horizontally striped mountains. *s13: and he's wearing an irish little hat with, it's not red and white, well, no he just switched to what looks to be a sailor's hat.
    %err: irish little = [?] ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.360 ok , ctc E.13.361 ok checked *s13: and uh
    @fp, # we just had an extreme close up. *s13: and he's dropping all these red and white hats of all the different areas all over the place. *s13: and, I mean everywhere, [//] yeah, worldwide and all. *s13: and the fish is doing the same # too, which is rather surprising (be)cause he seems to be in [/] in a # great deal of trouble with the # cat in the hat. *s13: and uh
    @fp, xxx it's changing too fast. *s13: it's just switching really quickly between different uh
    @fp, # ethnic groups. *s13: and now the cat in the hat is uh
    @fp, well, no now he's gone again. *s13: uh
    @fp there are a billion hats all over the place, crowding up the entire room. *s13: and thing one and thing two just ran back into the box. *s13: the box &sh &sh shrank and disappeared, you know, the box [/] that they came from that is. *s13: the cat in the hat is just # is on his way out the door, just lifted his hat and # put it #[//] placed it back, and walked away. *s13: and the little # boy and girl are looking at each other as if they don't know what to do. *s13: and the fish is &scr, you know, pointing out the window saying, "mom and dad are coming," or something like that. *s13: so the little boy and girl are # gonna to have to do some really frantic clean-up. *s13: oh wait no, the cat in the hat just brought back a machine # that's # one of those weird gizmos that's sort of sweeping the hats up into it, and it's swallowing them whole. *s13: and using a little dust pan and all to # clean-up behind it. *s13: and the fish is screaming, "oh no! mom and dad are coming! you'd better clean up fast: you don't want then to know we have [*] a party."
    %err: have = had ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.362 ok checked *s13: and the [/] the machine's even marking [*], ya know, removing the marks and dirt that was on stuff.
    %err: marking = removing the marks $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.363 ok checked *s13: and xxx the children are putting clothing back were it belongs. *s13: machine's s:wipe [*] [//] sweeping all the little # uh
    @fp bits of paper underneath the rug.
    %err: swipe = sweeping $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.364 ok checked *s13: and # the fish is still &s # keeping look out.
    %comment: E.13.365 ok checked *s13: and the children are # placed in their # seats by the machine. *s13: and the cat in the hat just # has this machine. *s13: it doesn't even seem to be # riding on anything, just sort of like walks on its , on its moving arms.
    %err: mov:ying = moving $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.13.366 ok checked *s13: and uh
    @fp, # ah
    @fp, xxx oh wait, there is a wheel. *s13: and all the things just disappeared inside of it. *s13: now its just this # capsule on a wheel with him in it. *s13: and now, # the fish is screaming even louder. *s13: damn, this fish is annoying. *s13: uh
    @fp # it almost resembles the front end of a plane that the cat in the hat is in. *s13: he just left and the door closed behind him, magically. *s13: and the fish just plopped down to the bottom of the # bowl with his eyes closed as if # in fear. *s13: now he just looks rather # tired and # quiet. *s13: and uh
    @fp, it looks to be that the mom and dad just came in because all three [//] the fish and two kids are looking rather wide-eyed # in one [//] , in the same direction. *s13: and now they're looking out the window. *s13: they're seated in front of the window, looking out. *s13: and we're fading. *s13: we're moving back, [//] panning back to just the hat moving by as you see the # [/] the uh
    @fp house in the background. *s13: and it just ended right now.
    @end

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