"Daylight sparkles on the rims of the drumbeat. Ticka-ticka-ticka-tock."
"Della, you're talking in circles again. Or are they spirals?"
"Spirals are circles, silly willy puff-head!"
"So they are. Either way, keep talking."
"Drop a penny down, taste the purple feathers, music tickles my brain."
"Dance with the flower men, they love to feel you singing."
"They know the code to open the box, Dora doesn't know it."
"That seems fair, because they can't have the box."
"Of course they can, they just don't know that. Shhh!"
"Oh, but you need to get the coin."
"Maybe I do. Flutter-by butterfly, margarine stew."
"Must you walk upside down?"
"I don't must do anything, you are the one who must do what you must-do."
"If you don't must do, what is it that you do do?"
"You're silly, you know that! Ask the fishies."
"Yes, the fishies. They've been asking for you."
"Have they? Ok, I better go see what they want before they escape."
"How would they escape?"
"Through the open windows in my head, and the mirror in your eyes."
"Too bad, I liked the fishies."
"Nighttime shimmers in the pokidy-pox, da-dum da-dum barrummh."
-Conversation between Delirium and a Discordian.
"Della talked with me last night."
"What did she say?"
"I haven't the faintest idea, but I'm sure it was something pleasant."
"That is her way."
"Not all the time, you know, sometimes she can be depressing."
"Truly? That is queer."
"Queer is what she does though, so it's perfectly normal."
"Is anything normal here?"
"Never, in the sense that never never is."
"I think I understand."
"That's madness, that is. You shouldn't say such thinks, nor think them."
"Oh."
-Conversation between two Discordians.
"Sister I made a friendly friend, her name is Me!"
"Is that so? Tell me about Me."
"How can I tell you about you?"
"I mean, tell me about your new friend."
"Oh! She's fun, she talks to me and doesn't pretend she understands. She doesn't even try. We understand each other. She's one of mine."
"Is that so, what does she have you call her?"
"She calls herself Me."
"And you call her Me?"
"S'what I said, isn't it?"
"Ok, Del, Slim and Wandsworth are hungry, want to feed them?"
"FISHIES!"
-Conversation between Delirium and her elder sister Death.
