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scene_one='''SCENE 1: [wind] [clop clop clop] \nKING ARTHUR: Whoa there!  [clop clop clop] \nSOLDIER #1: Halt!  Who goes there?\nARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot.  King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign of all England!\nSOLDIER #1: Pull the other one!\nARTHUR: I am, ...  and this is my trusty servant Patsy.  We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court at Camelot.  I must speak with your lord and master.\nSOLDIER #1: What?  Ridden on a horse?\nARTHUR: Yes!\nSOLDIER #1: You're using coconuts!\nARTHUR: What?\nSOLDIER #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.\nARTHUR: So?  We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--\nSOLDIER #1: Where'd you get the coconuts?\nARTHUR: We found them.\nSOLDIER #1: Found them?  In Mercea?  The coconut's tropical!\nARTHUR: What do you mean?\nSOLDIER #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.\nARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?\nSOLDIER #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?\nARTHUR: Not at all.  They could be carried.\nSOLDIER #1: What?  A swallow carrying a coconut?\nARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!\nSOLDIER #1: It's not a question of where he grips it!  It's a simple question of weight ratios!  A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.\nARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter.  Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.\nSOLDIER #1: Listen.  In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?\nARTHUR: Please!\nSOLDIER #1: Am I right?\nARTHUR: I'm not interested!\nSOLDIER #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!\nSOLDIER #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow.  That's my point.\nSOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.\nARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!\nSOLDIER #1: But then of course a-- African swallows are non-migratory.\nSOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah...\nSOLDIER #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...  [clop clop clop] \nSOLDIER #2: Wait a minute!  Supposing two swallows carried it together?\nSOLDIER #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.\nSOLDIER #2: Well, simple!  They'd just use a strand of creeper!\nSOLDIER #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
\nSOLDIER #2: Well, why not?\n'''


    

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['SCENE 1: [wind] [clop clop clop] ',
 'KING ARTHUR: Whoa there!  [clop clop clop] ',
 'SOLDIER #1: Halt!  Who goes there?',
 'ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot.  King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign of all England!',
 'SOLDIER #1: Pull the other one!',
 'ARTHUR: I am, ...  and this is my trusty servant Patsy.  We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court at Camelot.  I must speak with your lord and master.',
 'SOLDIER #1: What?  Ridden on a horse?',
 'ARTHUR: Yes!',
 "SOLDIER #1: You're using coconuts!",
 'ARTHUR: What?',
 "SOLDIER #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.",
 'ARTHUR: So?  We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--',
 "SOLDIER #1: Where'd you get the coconuts?",
 'ARTHUR: We found them.',
 "SOLDIER #1: Found them?  In Mercea?  The coconut's tropical!",
 'ARTHUR: What do you mean?',
 'SOLDIER #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.',
 'ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?',
 'SOLDIER #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?',
 'ARTHUR: Not at all.  They could be carried.',
 'SOLDIER #1: What?  A swallow carrying a coconut?',
 'ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!',
 "SOLDIER #1: It's not a question of where he grips it!  It's a simple question of weight ratios!  A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.",
 "ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter.  Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.",
 'SOLDIER #1: Listen.  In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?',
 'ARTHUR: Please!',
 'SOLDIER #1: Am I right?',
 "ARTHUR: I'm not interested!",
 'SOLDIER #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!',
 "SOLDIER #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow.  That's my point.",
 'SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.',
 'ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!',
 'SOLDIER #1: But then of course a-- African swallows are non-migratory.',
 'SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah...',
 "SOLDIER #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...  [clop clop clop] ",
 'SOLDIER #2: Wait a minute!  Supposing two swallows carried it together?',
 "SOLDIER #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.",
 "SOLDIER #2: Well, simple!  They'd just use a strand of creeper!",
 'SOLDIER #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?',
 '',
 'SOLDIER #2: Well, why not?',
 '']