# Can someone help me find this monologue?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 29, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-help-me-find-this-monologue/204482 "2003-09-29T15:01:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![dakravel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dakravel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dakravel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-help-me-find-this-monologue/204482/1 "2003-09-29T15:01:56Z")

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I need to find this monologue from _Lonely Planet_ by Steven Dietz, hopefully someone has heard of it. It’s the monologue where Carl is talking to Jody about having been a tabloid writer and about a story in which a woman’s apartment bursts into flame as she is washing dishes and she sees Jesus in the plate that she’s washing. If anyone could help me, I’d be greatly appreciative.

[SIZE=1]Sorry for the repost, but I think my last thread title was misleading, and I’m desperate now :(. Need this monologue by tonight :eek:.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-help-me-find-this-monologue/204482/2 "2003-09-29T18:28:16Z")

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What is Lonely Planet?

Book, movie, tv, play, comic book, ect.

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**Author:** ![dakravel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dakravel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dakravel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-help-me-find-this-monologue/204482/3 "2003-09-29T20:35:23Z")

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It’s a play, apparently not widely known. Just two characters, Jody, the owner of a map store, and Carl, this guy who hangs around the store. It deals with HIV and AIDS, although the two words are never mentioned throughout the work.

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**Author:** ![Kroy-05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@Kroy-05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kroy-05)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-help-me-find-this-monologue/204482/4 "2023-01-08T03:03:34Z")

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May be a bit late to answer but I made an account just to answer this question, unfortunately new users can’t post images.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-help-me-find-this-monologue/204482/5 "2023-01-08T03:49:56Z")

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We don’t host images here on the Dope. But you can put the image online somewhere and place a link to the image and it will show up inline. I use Google Pictures, but there are lots of others.

And welcome.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-help-me-find-this-monologue/204482/6 "2023-01-08T04:41:05Z")

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> [@Kroy-05](#):
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> May be a bit late to answer but I made an account just to answer this question, unfortunately new users can’t post images.

Is it the plate?