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    VERONICA is bouncing on rampoline. Dore is reading Floh Anne.

    quot;Youre about as tender as a sea lion,quot; s;;

    quot;I remember  before.quot;

    quot; make you feel  t;

    quot;Nervous.quot;

    quot;ere very tolerant.quot;

    quot;I see t. s t w;

    quot;Veronica.quot;

    quot;Is s?quot;

    quot;S mindless  trampoline. S a prob?lem  t s;

    quot;Makes me nervous.quot;

    quot;Everyt;

    quot;true.quot;

    quot;Is tasy for you? tuation?quot;

    quot;Its not a fantasy, is it.quot;

    quot;It ructure of a male fantasy.quot;

    quot;t possible o look at it.quot;

    quot;ell scre;

    quot;Our purpose .quot;

    Surns  in long sions.

    quot;o sc;

    quot;;

    quot; did you learn?quot;

    quot;Lots of important stuff. Almost everybody Ive met since  in my first-grade class. Maybe ty-t class. Every type represented. o somebody  in my first-grade class I ted a rare bird.quot;

    quot;o college? as it ;

    quot;No it  ;

    quot;Lots of people didnt go to ;

    quot;t not enoug;

    quot;Maybe tart a branc;

    quot;t feel t;

    quot;s redeye gravy?quot;

    quot;;

    quot;Can ;

    quot;Go a;

    quot;Blackeyed peas?quot;

    quot;I love blackeyed peas.quot;

    quot;Collard greens.quot;

    quot;Fine.quot;

    quot;ell need some corn likker.quot;

    quot;try tore.quot;

    quot;Be good if ;

    quot;I dra ;

    quot;Simon, Im trying to do t.quot;

    quot;I kno;

    Siful, ail. -s.

    quot; are you going to do after ; she asks.

    quot;Go back to ;

    quot;t  to do?quot;

    quot;ork is Gods best invention. Keeps you all seized up and interested.quot;

    quot;I wis;

    quot;You could alo sc;

    quot;I dont like standing in lines.quot;

    quot;I kno of my standing-in-line capacity.quot;

    quot;But suppose youre at a reception and youre going to meet t and t;

    quot;Im not in a o meet t. If s to come over and tle guacamole dip, ts fine. My door is al;

    quot;You dont care about anyt;

    quot;Listening to t;

    quot;You do love your radios.quot;

    quot;Im tting anoterproof jobs for t;

    quot;I like a quiet reflective bat;

    quot;Ill come in and put toads in ter.quot;

    quot; toads in Ney?quot;

    quot;toad store. t big toads, little toads, oads, no-oads --quot;

    quot;Its a great city.quot;

    quot;Its a great argument for cities.quot;

    Simon ed very muco be a y, optimistic American, like t, but on t trust y, optimistic Americans, like t. y t t,  really y and optimistic but ratentially disastrous processes in o be ttled for being a compe?tent, sometimes inventive arcect ragic sense of brick. Brick erial as tress ectural metap o resist. to force o fres about bamboo.

    Getting old, Simon. Not so limber, dear friend, time for tory? ttle blue van. Your iny pepperoni. Your knees predict your face. Your back stabs you, on t side, to a microdot. ere ordering your rocking coo good for you. Also, not good for you. Are you King Solomon? Your king?dom a scant ter incer snakes among ter belts too. Your garden is over-cultivated, it needs ely? You run t, a year and a ric treadmill, a solid steel barbell curl bar, a digital pedometer. Use the women away.

    almost unfurnisment iful  t  knoaciturn as coo te question, proba?bly did not knoaken place. No, too

    of Spi?noza and Cyndi Lauper  floating in t. o find all table ing at o strip off lemanly ktend to all t once, just as obviously an impossibility. urn and said, quot;Okay, guys, youve  back to t; t boy alent, muttered Manet to Monet one afternoon in t Renoir. quot;Out, out, out,quot; ed, and ttered, giggling. One nigs to suck, stered Romulus.  get a part of her.

    SIMON and Dore sitting in tche radio making music.

    quot;t music late at nig; Dore said. quot;;

    quot;ts Keitt.quot;

    quot;;

    quot;Piano player. Very famous.quot;

    quot;s t funny noise?quot;

    quot;;

    quot;O of different stuff, dont you. ;

    quot;Fifty-t;

    quot;You dont look it. You look maybe fifty, fifty-one. t was good c;

    quot;t;

    quot;I  Lupton. It ;

    quot;By ;

    quot;All t ;

    quot;Norocution.quot;

    quot;I read about it.quot;

    quot;All to trivance --quot;

    quot;ter --quot;

    quot;t! ;

    quot;Its ;

    quot;to t bad ne;

    quot;t!quot;

    quot;try runs on c;

    quot;Just t. A little bird like t. Fueling tion.quot;

    quot;At nig cories, .quot;

    quot;t do it in time?quot;

    quot;Under cover of nig realize tent.quot;

    quot;If I ;

    quot;tter.quot;

    quot;;

    quot;You dont  to kno;

    quot;Simon. Youre not a serious man.quot;

    quot;Yes I am.quot;

    Dore likes to scold people.  does not meet ions for appropriate behavior, Dore scolds.

    quot;Simon youre not supposed to talk to Anne like t.quot;

    quot;Like ;

    quot;You ;

    quot;In ;

    quot;Okay, s o explain it to  ;

    quot;as I pompous?quot;

    quot;Not more t  incredulous look. Like you couldnt believe t somebodyd never ;

    quot;It ;

    quot;Simon you are t;

    quot;t does not absolve you of ty of kno;

    quot;ts pompous. ts truly pompous. ts just alking about. And anot;

    quot;O?quot;

    quot; joke about George Gers;

    quot;ell?quot;

    quot;Anne didnt kno  make jokes t are based on people not knos not fair. Its demeaning to ;

    quot;o ;

    quot;omen dont pay t muctention to silly t. All t detail. And t;

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    quot;You sake times. Just be?cause  mean t ake time.quot;

    quot;Okay. Good point.quot;

    quot;e dont like sitting in t tacky laundromat any better t;

    quot;I told you to leave it and let t.quot;

    quot;You save for four peoples clot to ten dol?lars. I ts significant.quot;

    quot;But you dont o do it t ;

    quot;Also I met teresting guy t time. ler.quot;

    ening to one of ison board sec?ond speaker. talking about drum?mers. quot;Cozy Cole comes straig of C; . quot;Big Sid Catlett. Zutty Singleton, Dave tougo go even furt to Krupa and Buddy Ric; Simon taxes tempt to extract from it ten additional drummers. Louis Bellson. St Deems. Mel Ley bass players. Our nation is ricalent, hinks.

    her in California.

    quot; do ?quot; he asks.

    quot; fool boug?quot;

    quot;A friend.quot;

    ands ;Youve got to boil t of it,quot; s;;

    quot;Four.quot;

    quot;Id give it to four ock s. Never did see t of carrots but t be good for somet in some red ;

    quot;t some people ;

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    quot;Doing ric fellows;

    quot;Every little bit ; ;You and Carol speaking to eac;

    quot;At intervals. S;

    quot;Does s;

    quot;Probably. I dont kno;

    quot;Make a sauce for it ock. Cs best cold. ts all I kno brisket. You could stick some red cabbage into t for t ty minutes of cooking. Also, if I ;

    quot;;

    quot;Do ells you,quot; she says, and hangs up.

    o present oug, ts t trous pograpting by ting a formidable sex?uality. toug raticle, ready for Clark Gable and Lord Mountbatten, too.

    NE arcecture is quot;soulless,quot; Simon reads, again and again and again. rouble dis?agreeing alked about is a seventy-story curtain- like to live or  ter extreme. No building saller t; on tere fa?ade pleases arcects; people like decoration, a modicum of drama. Embassies are noy as one moves deeper and deeper into t secure space, deep inside, mig. Reconcile t al detectors set up at trances of scoting ackens in supermarkets (part of ter a jeore and above tproof glass s and a guy gun. Giant concrete flos all around tol  arcecture ter, civilize tral to mucectural t, Corbusier, Gropius, even rigy is not s do best, traint no at all soulless, rattage indus?try, S.O.M. notanding. t seems to he circus.

    quot;Mans co glorify God and to enjoy ; says ening to a lot of Cian rock lately, finds it surprisingly robust. Jesus is rock in a weary land. ian rock. Dore comes in and s in his ear. he makes a sound like a smoke alarm.

    off s been t ter of a pencil eraser. tor is a tall gloomy man .  e time, able and is scraping ate es. First, four sings as ererizes the blood vessels.

    Simon es a cy-five dollars. o tment from tors office, some?ty-five blocks. Its cool and cloudy out. Bumptious loudmouteenagers coming doreet, jostling people. Simon sidesteps t s em all. An absolutely beautiful oer  turning. ell, hree.