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(32:11) "I wan tu dark I wan tu lyt I wan tu day I wan tu nyt .... I wan tu woman I wan tu man .... I wan tu plus I wan tu minus I wan tu big I wan tu littl I want tu aul I wan tu nuthing"
Until the last, each of these is a familiar pair of the yin-yang kind. But are "all" and "nothing" a complementary pair? In each of the other pairs, you need both in order to have a whole; but "all or nothing" implies that you could just pick the "all." Is this why Eusa says, "Stop ryt thayr ... I wan that aul or nuthing No."? [EB]

(Notice, however, that Eusa, not the Littl Man, supplies the "or." The Littl Man doesn't say "aul or nuthing"; he says, just as he has with the other yin-yang pairs, "I wan tu aul I wan tu nuthing." Maybe Eusa wouldn't want that number if he knew what Riddley discovers in Ch. 15: "THE ONLYES POWER [all] IS NO POWER [nothing]"? [MWS])