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Marilyn Whirlwind
Marilyn Whirlwind (Elaine Miles) is a Native American Indian and Joel's personal assistant and secretary. Her obtuse manner, confounding style and less than communicative manner sometimes upset Joel. She is unco-operative and sometimes hinders Joel but she means well. She sometimes breaks with her mono-syllable answers and tells Joel about strange Indian legends.Classic Quotes"Death, like the white man, wasn't happy in his own land. He didn't think his kingdom was big enough. He wanted more. One night, when the good spirit was asleep, Death attacked the world. He killed a lot of people, and he took the Chief's prettiest daughter as his bride. She pretended to be a good wife, but one day she secretly fed him a pumpkin seed. The pumpkin grew and grew inside death. Finally, he exploded, and a million pumpkin seeds covered the earth.""A long time ago, the raven looked down from the sky and saw that the people of the world were living in darkness. The ball of light was kept hidden by a selfish old chief. So the raven turned itself into a spruce needle and floated on the river where the chief's daughter came for water. She drank the spruce needle. She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy which was the raven in disguise. The baby cried and cried until the chief gave him the ball of light to play with. As soon as he had the light, the raven turned back into himself and carried the light into the sky. From then on, we no longer lived in darkness." When Joel asks for some help "I'm busy"
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