The battery-operated toy parrots have no comprehension of the relationship that exists between the word they repeat and its semantic equivalent. They will not volunteer any information; they are incapable of initiating or supporting 'rational' conversation; they have no long-term memory resource, yet their mannered repeats prompt dialogue with the speaker on a different level.

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Through progressive repeats, the parrots assault the word or phrase offered them by the speaker, the resultant sound produced irreconcilable with its source. Since one parrot suffers a speech impediment and since they randomly censor what they will or will not repeat, this process of delivery and return becomes quite an absurd activity.

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The performance lasted for as long as the speaker could continue to speak before her mouth became completely clogged with gob-stoppers.

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Some of this work was pre-scripted, some impromptu (as in conversation with friends - feathered or otherwise).