For the next hour, we could do no wrong. Nearly every one of our thirty short plays inspired the crowd to ecstasy. And funny! I'd never gotten so many laughs, especially when addressing capital punishment, gun control, and reproductive rights. As far as teaching tolerance, our pupils seemed amiably disposed to parrot any theory we felt like pushing, the way football fans will oblige the announcer by doing the wave on demand. Having endured the brutality of a recently deposed regime, they saw us as ambassadors from the Great Rock Candy Mountain, You don't argue with the guys who know the way to the lemonade springs and the cigarette trees.
- Ayun Halliday, No Touch Monkey!, p.241-242
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