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    quot;Probably t perversely gifted er in ted States, Donald Barted a neion. Snoings, ribald social commentary, crazy estic experiments, and comedy t smas; -- EBStER SCt, Life

    Snoale. Escion, Barts yle and voice, taking ters of cing tive and psycmodernist satire. ing possesses a fantastic raigation of tesque, indicating tional nature of our everyday world.

    quot;e er urn spiritual dilemmas into logic, and o turn t logic into comedy ory of our time.quot; -- Jack Kroll, Newsweek

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    t appeared, in slig form,in tain portions also appeared, in slig form, in harpers Bazaar and Paris Review.

    for Birgit

 Part One-1

    Sall dark beauty containing a great many beauty spots: one above t, one above ttock, one on t side, more or less in a row, as you go up and down:

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    BILL is tired of Sno  tell   be t bear to be touc is neoo. to ouc just Sno also Kevin, Ed of Bill, te t   to be involved in uations any more. A y. e speculate t ance to be touc. Dan does not go along y t believe in anxiety. Dan speculates t Bills reluctance to be toucation of a metapion t is not anxiety. But es t. t of us support anxiety. Bill  us knole

    to be touc to pick  a ing, Bill smiles. If it is time to  , for in t circumstance t your oucired of Sno  go to ticed t. But Bill  told  ired of   to unfold te. t. Sno assume t  of  liking to be toucain s. But to ribute t;not-likingquot; itself? e dont know.

    quot;O  t; Snoing around t table s big cardboard boxes of quot;Fear,quot; quot;C; and quot;Rats.quot; ords in t  t ;Fis;  or, and ratoo, and antly regretted t  a , and top of ting o indicate t  rid of  t ;No; Kevin said, but Kevin is easily discouraged. quot;Injunctions!quot; Bill said, and  ely. quot;Murder and create!quot;   ;t is one Ive never ; and t gave us courage, and o say t isfactory, or at least adequate, to serve time being. time being, and didnt break out into t  into t sucking t Monday.

    t out to  man is perfectible. Also to look at girls from, tforms: you get a rare vie tops of targets, ter of target, t te or black legs flopping out in front are like someone arget and calling, quot;You missed ter by not alloly for t; e are very mucempted to s our arroo targets. You kno means. But tention to tecture and cladding. tiparillos in our faces and s around our s, and er in our buckets and squeegees on our poles. And les up too, and drink beer for a second breakfast, even t is against t oo bad  up   seize to perform some ne.  to treet, to make irritating lumps under t of t te, are trying to find t typeer, in t building.

    NO sten a dirty great poem four pages long,  let us read it, refuses absolutely, s. e discovered it by accident. e rudged ibule for a bit range prerudged inside. quot;; . quot;;  s look up, not a flicker. quot; are you doing t; ;ing somet; Sno;Yes,quot; s a pincion coloring t black of -black eyes. quot;A letter?quot; ter to ;No,quot; s;A list?quot; ing e face for a  of tendresse. But tendresse. quot;No,quot; siced t sculips from to t; t; iced t sed toire to t; t; ed. e observed t sbrus into tc;Poem,quot; sill. quot;Poem?quot; ;Poem,quot; s  on t;ell,quot; ;can ;No,quot; s;?quot; ;Four pages,quot; s;at present.quot; Four pages!quot; t of this immense work. . .

    Vacillations and confusions of Sno;But ; Snoing, because s it  enougill, sly ashamed.

    took off my s and called Paul, because o break into ment, and if  do so. If  er out into treet to sell it.  us:  girls s. Paul didnt ans  necessary to ask if Anna o ask for. Paul sat in er. ing a palinode. quot;Per is o es among t; ed. quot;But retraction o retract everyt tten ; More  er fell into t;I ract t, and I ract t long black   I saoday on my  erribly nervous, t  iful, I admit it. Long black exture, fineness, is not easily come by.  it erribly nervous.  person mig, and conceive it y to climb up, and discern t is being  of t taco it, at top, and ies of various sorts. . . teetelep?  s me? I  ans ime being.quot;

    treets. t to use treet proper, t rucks and bicycles are found. tand in oo unbuckling ts, so t  be displeased. I admire t. e ed again and again, and I t, t e so muced to try t to use muco tubes tied, in traps. tional  time for te  do anyt it. Men try to please tresses ingrousers. ting. quot;; t;ear te, t; It is difficult to defeat t notion, t trembles by t tones, will be Pope someday.  even  even poor.

    is Snooday so tcer. er. quot;Arent you going to ask me  ter for?quot; s;I assumed you ed to drink it,quot; ;No, ; Sno;ty I am not. You are not paying attention,  on t; quot; do you  ter for, Sno; quot;Let a ; Sno ter. Kevin came in. quot;Sno me in t; Kevin said. quot;S up Kevin. S up and tell me  a ; quot;I dont kno means ; Kevin said. quot;Its C.quot;  is Snoaken to eers trousers ratigremendous -rousers sely. An unmistakable affront I ting pretty damned sick of t about to do someto table. e are getting pretty damned sick of ty is leaking ainy C , I can tell you t.

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    tE:

    IN thE AREA OF FEARS, ShE FEARS

    MIRRORS

    APPLES

    POISONED COMBS

    IN addition to washe buildings, we make baby food, Chinese baby food:

    BABY BO YEE (cables)

    BABY DO Suffed h ground pike)

    BABY JAR ter)

    BABY GOOK S roast pork)

    BABY PIE GUAt (pork and oysters in soy sauce)

    BABY GAI GOON (cs and cabbage)

    BABY DIM SUM (ground pork and Cables)

    BABY JING S roast pork and apples)

    t is ime, tending ts. Altimes ime  is amazing tractively packaged jar of Baby Dim Sum, a tasty-looking potlet of Baby Jing S;try to be a man about eresting t en ;Keep quiet,quot;  . One tends to  t, in a National Park. Our fat eresting. A tree is more interesting. A suitcase is more interesting. A canned good is more interesting. ice t  very interesting. tice it. It is explicitly commented upon, in text.

    quot;I UNDERStAND all t Bill,quot; ;Nevert to build a fire under o my

    arted. It boto come in at nigting ts or somet potential being pissed atle co erms of possibility, and yet all o  to do is sit around ts and t sort of t realizing ential. e are like little balls of dust under , potentially, and s ttles, and doing scrims, o build a fire under t boy. Ill be damned if I knoo do about tuation  suc stand it, t it. I just  to go out and  it, and rage against fate, t one so obviously co be t, impious and  about at tet to oo!quot;

    At dinner rist. quot;And trist?quot; ;; s;Unforgivable?quot; quot;eresting.quot; quot;Uninteresting?quot; quot;; quot; .quot; quot; in t; quot;For ; quot;; quot;t; quot;t a million grins in my ory, ; quot;t ;s go to a movie for Gods sake.quot; quot;And?quot; quot;e  to a movie.quot; quot;; quot;A Con on.quot; quot;?quot; quot;Excellent.quot; quot;; quot;; quot;as t; quot;Mars Bars.quot; quot;Did you ; quot;Naturellement.quot; quot;And after?quot; quot;Drinks.quot; quot;And after t?quot; quot;Dont pry.quot; quot;But,quot; ting do;t trists. . .quot; e regarded Snoainly . quot;Most life is unextraordinary,quot; Clem said to Snoc;Yes,quot; Sno;I kno life is unextraordinary looked at e eye too it migerest you to kno; Dan keeps telling Sno quot;Cmas is coming!quot;  easily? it stains?

    tty airline steransparent ; sort of fallen-in c many boys from t . t on  is! Surely I must do someterner!quot; In tment Clem sed over t of a pile of old suitcases. quot;Snos for me,quot; Clem reflected ;Alts for Bill, ,  ,  eac; Clem replaced t.  looked fine no fine. t landed softly, just as it sairly onto trip. tocol in getting off, t famous emerging first, t ignoble emerging last. Clem reets, t in t;So to make love in a bed, just once. Making it in t on ones vacation ttle different, it seems to me. A bed ional novelty. I suppose I must seek out a bordel. I assume t is not Sno I o, but tion of  bottom.quot;

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    tION OF ENGLISh

    ROMANtICS INED thE PROBLEMS

    OF t, BUt COMPLICAtED BY thE

    EVILS OF INDUStRIALISM AND POLItICAL

    REPRESSION. ULtIMAtELY thEY FOUND AN

    ANSER NOt IN SOCIEtY BUt IN VARIOUS

    FORMS OF INDEPENDENCE FROM SOCIEtY:

    hEROISM

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    SPIRItUAL tRANSCENDENCE

    BEAVER COLLEGE is ure and nurture of and for, in evolution and in ory, including ion, and ribute to todays udied Classical Guitar I, utilizing tecarrega, Segovia, etc. tudied Englisic Poets II: Ss. tudied tical Foundations of Psycy, terpersonal relations, psycment, conflict, auty, individuation, integration and mental udied Oil Painting I bringing to t class as instructed Cadmium Yelloramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Viridian, Ivory Black, Raudied Personal Resources I and II: self-evaluation, developing to respond to t, opening and using training, time, mature redefinition of goals, action projects. tudied Realism and Idealism in temporary Italian Novel: Palazzesci, Bilencolini, Moravia, Pavese, Levi, Silone, Berto, Cassola, Ginzburg, Malaparte, Mapalarte, Calvino, Gadda, Bassani, Landolfi. tudied --

    quot;I AM princely,quot; Paul reflected in -in kitc;t. At times,  my blood. It is blue, t t times I startle myself ure so royal, so full of lig I  comes from my fat kingly man and personage. Even t during ion of tered tes  gesture,  like everybody else. A lot of people  t take aake ao a sickening degree. Even at fifty-five ill putting cologne in  I am more experimental t time, more  of ion o tumble tier ambitions, only I dont knoly. Probably I s and effect a liaison y  I am eating is migtractive and absorbing, too.  muc ot kno. t is  believe  kno;

    ing o searc of tasy one by one. Of course quot;ecstasyquot; is being used  s of somet in some sucence as, quot;tten-ness of t is a turning to; So t  asy is somet;fit,quot; but a kind of slo is divisible by t;So Acadia and remove my parents from t parking place rue t ted to ter lines and geraniums. ting  deters me. ill I   to be rescued. From t natural beauty.quot; t;Dan, errupted scre; ;An interrupted scre; Dan said, quot;is a screinuous ting a or parts of times part of t. Used  ions.quot; quot;t; ;tinking everlastingly of sex, scre, male, it is no o our eyes and ears. . .quot; quot;I am not going round t; Dan said, quot;not me.quot; quot;Round t; ;t t t I said bend and you  I mean, its inescapable.quot; quot;You live in a ;I can certainly improve on ; henry said.

    quot;ts and outside gestures eventuating against a ies intelligence I only ed one plain , flexible manners parts t dissembling limb add up ts on my soo  moves too muc partly different levels of emotional release calculated paroxysms scug dissolve ts of faces lotom to t enougra difficulty! ody of t it is to a degree instruments adequate distances parco toucions mirror to take turns and t;t; congress of eyes turning  glance up  Edra density of t rolling tongue craigerior facing natural gas to experience a definition placed neatly w reac and ime experiences c;

    JANE replaced t on tter completed. t made ty-five letters completed. Only eigters to complete. Sried to make tating in treme. S letter. Srembling. It ating in treme. Jane stopped trembling. to t, noo t  trembling. quot;remble. t is ;  Street in iac convertible. Nobody likes e dog sitting uprig seat of t sitting to s dangle from t Street trees, so sometimes s sitting tting tead. quot;For Gods sake cant you stay put?quot; quot;Sorry.quot; Jane fingered . quot;t canaille s an exotic girl like me to put up ies from time to time.quot;  very simpatico -- not muco -s and   of sion  figured out exactly . quot;e s; ook te s into Janes mout no  even speak to .

    quot;It is marvelous,quot; Snoo ;er falls on my tender back. te meat t t, and tiny points of perturbation. More perturbation! And  is Clem. tec, is Clem, Clem, Clem. And  s outside, on tain, and ting doairs, in front of television, ing. But  Bill, t tapped at my sall door, in recent o be touc must be it. Clem you are doic, in tificial insemination eresting. And ?  I c Sonata, t? t ure. And  of Poland, too. t must eresting. Everyteresting except Clems idea of sexual congress, ern confusion bet, pleasure, and t, increasing t ter on my back is interesting. It is more teresting. Marvelous is t.quot;

    tra  Dan ed. quot;I praise fruit and ; Apollinaire said, and rasted t  LaGuardia ;torc; te. It is alter  come every day. Lamps are calm. tary of State is calm. Eac goes so fast, begins and ends. t part came  ;After I read t; quot;Dont say t Ed; Kevin said. quot;Dont say anyt later.quot; Bill put a big black bandage over Edook off all te, till some of it left because I  it do finis. Alicia sry. Some t poignant at all and t pornograpry is one of trying to keep tiredness off ed to get out of talk and look at t Bill o say, and  going to leave until , I could see t. quot;ell it is a pleasure to please y can manage it, but t trembling on tony, after several years. And yet. . . I am fond of  makes you fond, in a strange .quot;

    SNO E ;Book lice do not bite people,quot; so  solution of DDt. ted ting brus bang toget injures ts-foot oil, applying torn pages using strips cut from rice paper. S clotly dampened aining paradico in mildee cleaned tes and er and dried totention to t ts ourned tray, tes to tions and lit eaco make sure it ment  in  a bit of ammonia to  tment  in clear er and dried it oe cleaned teel ougs. t in clear er and dried it o;piano care.quot;

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    SNO E REMEMBERS:

    tSMAN

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    tEAMING KNIFE

    quot;I AS fair once,quot; Jane said. quot;I  of to be in my po tter days. Noivate my malice. It is a cultivated malice, not tural malice o one anoto memory as into a sloug I . I ed neies of malice, t men  seen before no not for t t I am total malice. But I am redeemed by tinuum, still. Even  artful, ricly poisonous netes in tential I am surrounded by. I t sit ly in t morning, and remember better days. taurant tea at 10 a.m. to tter days. Yes, t  o spend t;

    At t put es lap. A sentative gesture. S it lay t  is tering Gibsons, to make us  remembered trout Amandine icking to Kevins leg. It remely tasty, t trout. And  remembered tion in  ture ter t one, allo t ranslation, and not in te is agitated. S somet;reputation.quot;  o become a public scandal,  not be seen in public en famille, no one believes t sc. etc. t our establis ed no special interest in tterly disappointed. Seil;My suffering is autic enoug it e-block quality. to t of about ts on t is possible of course t trut ment. One ent oneself le falsity of color films of un score. t .quot;

    Miseries and complaints of Sno;I am tired of being just a ;

    DEAR MR. QUIStGAARD:

    Alt knoempt to enmesoday I believe from a lack of connection  is common kno, t it may not even be true. It may be t ed, for all I kno assumption, t ed, and t fall as you  I feel t if you neglect t. t is merely my private opinion. No police pos it. I gaard, for not listening, for . t for t, in our society. Not yet. But to t. You and I, Mr. Quistgaard, are not in t  previously, but t of tter is, t . e exist in different universes of discourse. No may o you, prior to your receipt of tter, t ted, and puttered about, e and satisfactory. It may never o t otinct from your oed, o t t ed en do. t is certainly one , if fat self-satisfied complacency is your aim. But I say unto you, Mr. Quistgaard, t even a plenum can leak. Even a plenum, cre, can be penetrated. Neo your plenum displacing old t gaard, is impervious to tuation noting t Street, less, and your all bro, able American scene. But I, Jane Villiers de IIsle-Adam, am in possession of your telepgaard. t t means. It means t at any moment I can pierce your plenum elep, Mr. Quistgaard, in seeing tening situation. t I inject discourse from my u. of d. into your u. of d., ted. t, te. Soon you y plenum, or rat is a contradiction in terms, over a former plenum, in terms of yourness. You are, essentially, in my po an unlisted number.

    Yours faithfully,

    JANE

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    PAUL: A FRIEND OF thE FAMILY

    quot;IS t t; Paul asked indicating t;It is a ne finisoday, still a little  Im afraid.quot; rousers. quot;Ill just lean it up against your .quot; Paul leaned t our . ty great banality in  t;Interesting,quot; ;Its poor,quot; Sno;Poor, poor.quot; quot;Yes,quot; Paul said, quot;one of my poorer t; quot;Not so poor of course as yesterdays, poorer on t; s;Yes,quot; Paul said, quot;it ies of poorness.quot; quot;Especially poor in t-; s;Yes,quot; Paul said, quot;I o  into tplace.quot; quot;tting poorer,quot; s;Poorer and poorer,quot; Paul said isfaction, quot;descending to unexplored deptelligence ; quot;I find it extremely interesting as a social p; Sno;to note t during t of ract expressionism, action painting and so fort artists ogeted in an image alone. t, I find -- and I t ing, is an apt description, alt leaves out a lot, but I find it very interesting t in t feremendous ne kno to comment on t, but I find it extremely interesting t you,  founders of t sc a sc; quot;I ; Paul said. quot;Sublimely poor,quot; s;all-paper,quot; rudged to bed to-bed song ;ainly a egrated personality, Paul,quot; s;Yes,quot; ;act, you must grant .quot; quot;Yes,quot; ;A beautiful ; quot;Carrying t muc; ;e are fortunate to ry,quot; she concluded.

    t over to Pauls place and took typeer. to find somebody to sell it to. It ti 22, t typeer, and typeer girls put it under ts. ted to e somet s. I t ed to get under t tting ting ; are you going to e under t; quot;I t peromatic ing, because one cant see so rangled by toucype  see to t t. . .quot; quot;ell  sell typeer if youre typing on it under Amelias legs, so come out of too because t  t. Not no; e all ypeer   pure grotto, Pauls place, and tomorroo go take tor cage time, so t  come doo treet any more, ensions.

    quot;YES,quot; Bill said, quot;I ed to be great, once. But t  in my sky, to make a poatement. But to make a poatement, coupled  t, per in ter dinner, in tain diffidence still clings to tters. You laugting in your cacles, your iced tea. I o make a significant contribution. But tony-faced. Did I make a mistake, selecting Bridgeport? I o bring about a ened ao t oil, Band-Aids, Saran rap. My census of tears ill incomplete. ed Bridgeport, city of concealed meaning? In Calais treet corners, under trees, in ted to provide a definitive account. But my lecture  a success. Men came to fold till speaking. You laugalk about terested in, you said. I ed to acrating study o erly evocation, sobs and cries, tter. I iating a multi-faceted program involving paper toears. I came into t of sighe pillow.

    quot;  is under the pillow? I asked.

    quot; Nothing, you said.

    quot;I reac. An alarm clock spread to go. My survey of ty of ty of Bridgeport  informed, you said, by too little compassion. You laugograpures of people ed to effect a rapproc, I ed to reconcile irreconcilable forces.  is t? t is an y of Bridgeport, salt tears in a little bottle. I ed to engage in a meaningful dialogue, but tacted ion ers for measuring tance of tion. My life-enricious, as you predicted. I ed to substantiate an unsubstantiated report, I listened to to make suitable arrangements but t to arrange did not appear on ted day. ter-marcic League. I o make a far-reacion. I , but t   udents remember, you said.quot;

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    tION OF t

    GENERAtION IN thE RELIGIOUS

    SCIENCES hAS SCARCELY

    PENEtRAtED POPULAR

    CONSCIOUSNESS AND

    tO SIGNIFICANtLY INFLUENCE

    PUBLIC AttItUDES t RESt

    UPON tOtALLY OUtMODED

    CONCEPtIONS.

    PAUL sat in  to do next. quot;ell,  tory?quot; If you kno, t like it. If Paul s to become a monk, ts irely. Of course s ry. time is ripe for t. t causes of poetry udied and studied. And no  pockets of poetry still exist in our great country, especially in ters, o  totally in one generation, if  our backs into it. But o ment. t;Are t ciny   vulnerable to today.quot; Besides, most people are not very  tered life. Certainly t bulbs if t tains are not inferior to our o;teresting jam,quot; ;But its ypeer. t muc; People  is as if t; Monkiso toimes; pero see hen.

    quot;MOto ; quot;No Jane  t type of young man for you to play y-five no is too old for innocent play. I am afraid  is not innocent, and  you to play it   is tuation figured out any is my reading of it. t is t looks from ; quot;Moty does not become you any more t mucky old poor little matc; quot;t t; quot; ne; quot;It rencoget ar. t er-publicized ones, more expensive ones per our  means o me.quot; quot;Moty-five and t still to o o ts me t; quot;Simmer doo go to o your  t of ; quot;ts s;

    t;touc; ;is it r; quot;Free,quot; Sno;free, free, free.quot; quot;And t; quot;One of t t; s;t is all I can reveal at time.quot; quot;Could you tell us t ; quot;t ; s;is bandaged and ; quot;But. . .quot; quot;Run toget; sally revie t of t;bandaged and ; quot; t bandage precedes ; quot;A metapself against t; quot;take it.quot; quot;,quot; s;else?quot; quot;Are you specific as to ?quot; quot;Brutally.quot; quot;Sno; ;;It must be laid, I suppose, to a failure of tion. I  been able to imagine anytter.quot; I  been able to imagine anytter. e atement of our essential mutuality, , dissipated, diluted, corrupted or finally severed, not even by art in its manifold and dreadful guises. quot;But my imagination is stirring,quot; Sno;Like tock certificate suddenly alive in its green safety-deposit box because of neor interest, my imagination is stirring. Be ; Sometainly .

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    tORY

    FAMOUS hORSEIVES

    tUAL PORtRAIt

    tICAL StUDY

    FIRSt MOP, 4000 BC

    VIES OF St. AUGUStINE

    VIES OF thE VENERABLE BEDE

    EMERSON ON thE AMERICAN hORSEIFE

    OXFORD COMPANION tO thE AMERICAN hORSEIFE

    INtRODUCtION OF BON AMI, 1892

    hORSEIVES ON hORSEIFERY

    ACCEPt ROLE, PSYC URGES

    tIC BAG

    thE GARLIC PRESS

    BILL  mind. But t is not true. In t of so muc is true, it is refreso s is not true.   to be touc itled to an idiosyncrasy.  by  great enterprise,  ot enterprise, our love for Sno;to all of us,quot; Bill noted. quot;e ional Parks. Clem e, inspiring gorges. Kevin remembers t Smokies.  Springs.   Sequoias, and Edely Rainier. And I, I knoogete and blue.quot; tanding, from t customarily d. quot;Love ly,quot; Bill said significantly, quot;and it is our task to infuse it once again  orange breat in mind I o come over and advise us on  of propinquity, and tomorroon is o know  and ;

    rocity stories. quot;God, s ; , quot;t a t must o be a o turn around and be a Nazi! A gray vermin! And today? e co-exist, . Filtsc so eclipse texture. . . t so eclipse t vileness  so enfold. . . t so enscrap. . . Bloody deutsc so enexture of a man, t ates ture of a man, t in  stings of vileness are, all ginger fled, ;  in a plastic bag.  sometirring in  too, and  trous. quot;No is necessary to court  on t, and cut my various nails, and drink somet tering, and be ty and bonny, and  to ease t seems a ;  ray to  ray to ill t;t is still open to one. t door, at least,  been s.quot;

    KEVIN ;understanding.quot; e spend a lot of our time doing t. And even more of our time, no s t is Clem,quot; Kevin said to ;ts t is. You tell it like it is Clem baby.quot; Kevin said a lot more garbage to Clem. Peacocks s. quot;Sometimes I see signs on ; Clem said. quot;And sometimes Kill t and ten underneation I  says Jean-Paul Sartre Is a Fartre. Somet admit. Dim flicker of someto t many couples, men and ime, as  of o determine  t s it. O is killing me treet togetalking, too, . Normal life. And a fine October c is unbearable, ty. ing I give ting is interesting. ting.quot; quot;ts true Roger,quot; Kevin said a imes. t. quot;No I mean ts true Clem. Excuse me. Roger is somebody else. Youre not Roger. Youre Clem. ts true, Clem.quot; More peacocks heir splendid plumage.

    E opened eggs to let t. Bill  te part, but old  to  t. quot;People do it every day,quot; Ed meringue rose to t. Dan turned off television set. quot;You cant cook according to   to be cannabis in t; quot;I just dont like your ; Sno;A  satisfied. Its easy enougo motivate policemen if you give tes and scooters to ride about on, but soldiers are a little more difficult. More soldiers. Cas because t casomatic M-9. ts mouter. t made a pile, t ;ell I suppose t identifies you,quot; too. e  to continue. t of t t in it. e gave Snoainer. But sill  satisfied. t is tial point  s satisfied. I dont knoo do next.

    te:  does s;Someday my prince ; By te means t se, pending t;completequot;  is, s;not-; (even t;; t,  t;not-; is experienced as stronger, more real, at ticular instant in time, t;being-; teness is an aca presented by consciousness. I dont go along orical necessity,  ions are dictated by quot;forcesquot; outside of t doesnt sound reasonable, in tion of te: Snoold ories ransformed into a kings son, of an immense treasure at ttom of a brook, of a crystal casket in  not continue. table. t be persuaded to confine itself to events and effects susceptible of confirmation by trumentarium of t reason he bone.

    quot;I AM being folloation ; Bill ;I cannot fall apart no yet. I must oget conceal my rive to appear un not knouffed under t. Nourn. No turn. t urn too. t is. t does it. Sual spoor of my invisible  devouring black . Dont be ridiculous, Bill. You are beation  s turn and t turn means not all. Dont t it. t leaders t leaders at t too. Dont t it. Dont turn on t elling you. t to be found t;

    Im not ea Im afraid

    Ah ah ah ah ah

    Ill find a way somehow in my lonely room

    Ah ah ah ah ah

    Emily Dickinson, w me and gone

    Ah ah ah ah ah

    Emily Dickinson, dont you know w we could

    Ah ah ah ah ah

    quot;; quot;; quot;t; quot;ell c Id like to say a fe random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it. One of t t youve got  . Noreading on your toes in tter. God knoure as mucance, sitting in t seat of a car in to a street s before getting out, or  gotten out yet; and if you o be looking out of a ting in e under  s of c up over o get to fall t . And all t t  and said, in my opinion, or ever  and said, for ty of ain foods, and possibly music of all kinds, especially c furnis parades by for instance t. Pulaski tatterdemalion Band of Orange, Neears, in t ligo you from t about your land, and  is, and t it is your land really, and my land, t particular insig. But I ed to point out is t ts, t ters of ts as multitudinous as cones and littlenecks burroo t is t ticular one is not to be taken seriously. Says  up  and you stay  up . ts t is be usually veils tters. No of splendor. ter comes to call and recommends to t, and tells t are more durable t. ell irely correct, t durable is not ed. terrible poignance of t is not vitiated by t t everybody kno, in t t is because of to, to my dying day. And t is  of to see ence. Because somet up on t beacure, and you can al a neo overlook certain ments of t and feeling. But if it is t and feeling you , you can al of course eracy you noend to get girls oo, in some measure, and some of to ty or somet be respected, and catered to, and nattered about, just as if you gave a s about all t of course , per it. Its not un my main point is t you siplicity, and forget about uniqueness. t, and deep, and  Freud said.quot;

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    tS ON

    EROtIC NEEDS INStANtLY SINKS

    AS SOON AS SAtISFACtION

    BECOMES READILY AVAILABLE.

    SOME OBStACLE IS NECESSARY

    tO SELL tIDE OF thE LIBIDO

    tO ItS , AND At ALL PERIODS

    OF ORY, URAL

    BARRIERS  SUFFICED, MEN

    ED CONVENtIONAL ONES.

    quot;; Sno; be Prince Andrey? Prince Igor? Prince Alf? Prince Alp? Prince Paul? Prince Akio? Prince Rainier? Prince Porus? Prince Mys? Prince Pericles? Prince Karl? Prince Clarence? Prince George? Prince kin? Prince c? Prince Fortinbras?quot; te pulled oget;ell it is terrific to be anticipating a prince -- to be ing and kno ing for is a prince, packed  it is still ing, and ing as a mode of existence is, as Brack ed, a darksome mode. I  slas it, ting, bring doy feelings of anticipation from tters filled ing gas. I wonder if ;

    PAUL stood before a fence posing. o tery. But first  of a fence. t;to fly.quot; quot;tand in front of t; Paul said to ;o discover me. t o go to tery. television or sometead of going to tery. Yet t, someto monastery located in a remote part of estern Nevada.quot; Lanky, generous-ed Paul! quot;If I o 1900, I could  Pancernatively, I could  t government officials of time. In eittle opportunity to tom ietury! A  ill fork a saddle at all. . . Of course tiacs, trymen favor. But t for me. take tan out of my c of my arms and legs. tom Lea or Pete  me standing by tting inside an Eldorado, Starfire, Riviera or Mustang, no matter tractively tal .quot;

    SNO E let do of t;I could fly a kite  is so long. te up into te against togeting t seems desirable. tif, treaming from t one I believe, found in many cultures, in various forms. Noulate it, for tonis of t of my venereal life.quot;

    t looked out of  very ;I  Bill, , e. I sense t all is not  over to t and tant to , but I  Bill and too. Because I am t. Finally. t of try. And t, e. t;

    QUEStIONS:

    1. Do you like tory so far? Yes ( ) No ( )

    2. Does Snoe you remember? Yes ( ) No ( )

    3. ood, in reading to t, t Paul is the prince-figure? Yes ( ) No ( )

    4. t Jane is tepmother-figure? Yes ( ) No( )

    5. In t of tory, ion ( ) or less emotion ( )?

    6. Is too mucion? ( ) Not enough blague? ( )

    7. Do you feel t tion of neaking for tist of today? Yes ( ) No ( )

    8. ould you like a war? Yes ( ) No ( )

    9. aphysical dimension? Yes ( ) No ( )

    10.  is it (ty-five words or less)? _____________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________

    11. Are tely cerized as individuals? Yes ( ) No ( )

    12. Do you feel t tly vigorous in representing ers before tters pertaining to copyrigion? Yes ( ) No ( )

    13. ion since te t o ten, so far? (Please circle your answer)   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10

    14. Do you stand up w? ( )

    15. In your opinion, ss of shree? ( )

 Part Two-1

    PER be sitting ending ts and  once a . e do  tends ts and  and never stops for a moment to consider t tanding somey t  is somet can safely be said. It . Before  uffed y. ty for all. e s, o ty cat to do. e , raug;ould you like someto eat?quot; No knoo do. Snoo do, no like ty. e circle it  from time to time  is it? Is it, pery , y  tion. t moment in ood for t time t .

    Reaction to tanding tes umbling from t;Seems like some a t ; one said. quot;Yes it looks like o me,quot; ;Seems like ta be someto be done about it.quot; quot;Yes, seems like it oug; quot;ell oo old for all t. You need a Paul or Paul-figure for t sort of activity. Probably Paul is even noanding in ts for rance. So I guess Ill go along to t be some ; quot;Ill go along ; t;because even t a A.B., I am a B.A., and maybe in taken for t toget; quot;I e to go a ed as it ; t man said, quot;but o our families, and to trys merc fleet, some vessels of less, do Pier 27 and Pier 32, for till forever, fare t;

    Reaction to t;Men, someto me today on Monument Street. I sa t be different oo, because you are my men, and I am your leader. No is quite clear to me t you men ented, amplified, advertised and been paid for. No to say rig ts all rigil time, it  buffalo music, in all t care a rap, ts  it is  I freely grant you, t our gray , erious dark beauty o be crange o ourselves, and to buffalo music, until to cover everyty finality of love. So go fort tion mercilessly: ; Freds men exc looks. quot;Its al; t;in ts alual regeneration, from a bad man into a good man. Its alired of s go doo te out tions for a grievance against ion Four, tion, of our union constitution. And oo, to add to t of c ing out t;

    Reaction to t;ell, t is certainly a lot of ; Bill reflected. quot;And it seems to be oo. I mean, t us  mucending to ask myself tion. tasteful anso me, as is t, tself, on en. I dont mean t ten on t rat it, from preory to t time. t is Sno is Snoep, to all of us. All seven of us kno means t s a goddamn degenerate! is one  it, at t question. It means t t- means srag¨¦die! But tial loneliness of t also be considered. Eaciny single o t exist, t case, eaciny little mote of pointlessness, er pointlessness, unless telligent life on ots, t is to say, life even more intelligent t  up some point for t enterprise, life. t is possible. t is somet kno in time, s multiple meanings.  am I to do about it?quot;

    Reaction to t in er. More  er fell into t;I ract t, and I ract t long black   I saoday on my  erribly nervous, t  iful, I admit it. Long black exture, fineness, is not easily come by.  it erribly nervous. teet;

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    EBONY

    EQUANIMItY

    AStONIS

    tRIUMPh

    VAt

    DAX

    BLAGUE

    Lack of reaction to t do forcing us to sit do just leaving t if ed to sit do;You knoing effect of ordinary language, referring, as I recall, to t t sort of, you knos. t part, t say, of o me t interesting part, and of course it miguffing I suppose, and tion, some ot o describe it, or maybe a number of t ty tuffing  ts of verbality do not ed, pery and (2) a sludge quality. Of course t is possibly ties but I prefer to t aspects of a single quality, if you can t  of stuffing is t it goes on and on, in many different forms, and in fact our exc, in larger measure even, per uffing. ty is t tuff o tor oils, a kind of do still fluid, if you follo  ts o say just  at t. So, summing up, tion bet ic buffalo  t ta production of trasry is up from 2.75 pounds per day in 1920 to 4.5 pounds per day in 1965, t year for e of about four percent a year. No rate s been going up, and I  . No suc, you ion turns from a question of disposing of traso a question of appreciating its qualities, because, after all, its 100 percent, rigion of disposing of it, because its all to learn o dig it -- ts slang, but peculiarly appropriate s  moneymaker. tras in fact could be more useless or trass t  to be on trased spure, and ts tention, too, to ts of language t may be seen as a model of trass certainly been a pleasure s ternoon, and meeting you, and talking to you about tant, I believe, tend to t;

    Additional reactions to t;to be a ; Ed;t, my friends, is my text for today. tant slot in our society, conceptualized by God as very nearly to tells us,  montion. I ; I . So I  today if I can to dispel some of t rut ructure of civilian life  tre of our existences o t brute level of brutality for  for y  is exercised, ill be going around dressed in skins probably, icket items to fill ty voids, in our s. t and numen of our intersubjectivity! t ornament on tree of  to say o say not all. Consider no of ting in ing rouble, confuse and droely, and cely abrades oacle! t! ty of it! Nolemen,  of self-love? No. No, . Do e a. e self, qua o self-red. t is t is tion.quot; Dan spoke up, t;I could cut your gizzard out, Ed t o be. I put it to you t,  your screen of difficulty-making pseudo-problems, tly, in t do er-scale breasts floating toypically, in a red toing aoe distinct appreant? tor t remains te simply, to t, rigood, te o do at its center  red to immediately becomes a non-problem. e can easily dispense rust is Snoead to to is my idea, gentlemen. And I aken ty of purco; Cc rouble oo mucac. quot;I dont  a ratty old red to tiful snoself!quot;

    SNO E regarded  of t;Paul? Is ted rained in t graces and arts all my life for not ted body to go do ty-t enemi   point, not yet assumed tering mantle of princeliness. t not  under my  yet.quot; Sno of t t;Ug St. tropez, for example, surrounded by bro a penny. y penny. ell at least  to, under tem. No ambiguity t least. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! ters are burning orpor and a sense of immense ed potential, like one of tural gas t it isnt economically rational to s;

    quot;Informal statements ties of o understanding bro a penny  I  ion of yesterday ing members clinging clear milk of ing fever ed constabulary extra innings of danger a muscular dream basket gesture Kiss t tufts more interesting texture of interesting c ration ed groans stifled under blankets upset A parliament of less-favored glass doors closed extraquot;

    tlepiece strode for;Yes, errible ; o t;If  cross t spit of land t; (gesture ter of episcopal rings) quot;and get to t  over t; (s;pardon I meant ,  ticular vicissitude sent by God to break our backs for our sins.quot; t;flockquot; moaned. t days . . . t. t. Not a sound for six ;t,quot; to one anot ing to. . . break to t to find ingle of mace against bone). ted again. Blockflutes ; Paul said to ;I never t I o see it. It is intelligent of me to ourage. And it is intelligent of me to elligence! So little of Gods grace!quot;

    SELF-REGARD is rooted in breakfast. , to follourally, as if you o only ts but tion in a large, faux-na?f country. ted only by eccentrics, and on t occasion t be taken into account. t country in isfying tactile o understand ill, insofar as trying to sketcure trends, even t rigid empiricists among to make projections, and t of teced social institutions t breakfast is almost forgotten, in some countries; t pictures instead. I read Dampfboots novel alto say. It  rave, t volume; ted t. And it  turned, and ters and resting,  ture plane s tires smoking. Fragments kept flying off to ts of rain and et ed to go back to t er part   of dreck in tter self as not  all relevant) but o, can supply a kind of quot;sensequot; of ;sensequot; is not to be obtained by reading bete spaces) but by reading t t a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, t is too muco expect, but of ;completedquot; t;Please dont talk,quot; Sno;Say notake off t; Snoook off ook off ook off  took off ook off ook off ook off o take off ;take off your pajamas Bill,quot; Sno Bills pajamas. quot;No, I ,quot; Bill said. quot;I  take off my pajamas.quot; quot;take off your pajamas Bill,quot; everyone said. quot;No. I .quot; Everyone looked again at Bills pajamas. Bills pajamas filled those yellow crepe-paper pajamas.

    quot; is t apelike o my mailbox?quot; quot;ts not. Its nots just one of my familiars mot t it. Its just an ape ts all. Just an ordinary ape. Dont give it anot. ts all to it.quot; quot;I too easily Jane. Im sure it means more t. Its unusual. It means somet; quot;No mot doesnt mean more t. t means.quot; quot;Im sure it means more t Jane.quot; quot;No mot does not mean more t. Dont go reading to t means  means. Content yourself  mot; quot;Im certain it means more t.quot; quot;No mot;

    SNO E received te from Fred, tossed over the wall:

    Madonna,

    My men  me no to to institute proceedings against me. But I dont care. t being in your poting on a bencs ed togeto me? I  four oclock by t, t you will come?

    FRED

    picked up te in t; is te doing  a box of mans ces? For ended? After I , I ; Silently  opened tes. quot;Sake one of tastiest? Or sead take one of t;  sat doo trying to make up his mind.

    tasy, a fantasy of anger and malevolence. e  t  . It , only ed on a spit (large iron bar). t  ted t-and-sour sauce. Dan made te screamed. Edurned t revolve. as s of noise. t o color, a bro ter registered almost-enoug;turn t; Bill said.  t alonin Artaud  a crucifix at te asked if . quot;It s,quot; s;No,quot; Bill said. quot;You are not done yet. It is supposed to .quot; Jane laug;; quot;I am laug is not me burning t; quot;For you,quot; ;;to do ice,quot; Bill said. quot;to do ; e regarded Snoating ty, in the dream.

    SNO E sa;I suppose I must respond in some o ture from tain. t of it all day. As if I could be s looks like?quot;

    BILL ly separated into 10S, 20S, 50s and so fortotaling a great deal of money I can tell you t. o t o , ooo Bills armpit. Dan ed Bill to. Clem o get arted. And Ed forget t.quot; t into t in tion of t. But some tself out of  in a direction knoo it. quot; slip, Bill?quot; Ed;Deposit slip?quot; Bill said. quot;t; Dan said. quot;t; quot;t; Kevin said. quot;t; e all rus into to recover t it eps as best eps led into a bar amp; grill, t time Bar amp; Grill. e retraced t pastrami sandtles of Miller  of t a trace. Luckily tter is not serious, because y y, and a good deal of equanimity leaked a day.

    quot;ALL rig into t; quot;ains on my ne e-on-; Jane regarded tains. quot;ts all you kno. o take a t ain it until it is black. ts a pretty strong metap you o do oo. I understand. If you t t your capability of staining tuation. Get out of ; quot;All rig into t;

    PAUL o tizens. quot;urn our amplifiers on,quot; ;already cant is forming over some peoples minds, like t on bread, or t crusts over inappropriate remarks. I t to be, and remember Im talking normatively  ougo obtain is a measure of audacity, an audacity component, sucurning your amplifier up a little o pick and strum, ratrum or tips, or doing somet care  only t it be relevant, in a strange o t o spread itself out before us, tre of our lives. And if you otlemen o t forgetting trailing cords,  urn on. . .quot;

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    ROME. ANOt. PAUL

    hE GREEN-AND-GOLD

    ARMBAND. tALIAN POStAL

    SERVICE ABIDES NO RINGERS IN

    ItS RANKS.

    ELL Paul is back and o stop fleeing iny and  tery and dray in  alloo eat or drink anyt  to ty sitting primly along te. Our social intercourse for ter. e discussed t ttention to a vat of rum under t  to discuss t te memories) so ootain period, toot ted to talk. quot;Spare t and ts,quot; said t;Rots inside.quot; quot;But o employ it? t?quot; quot;e ells us suc; t;e look it up in tting t; e got a as  of otalking tical talk and otalk. A certain contempt for titutions of society  o trated ip. quot;Is tent of kno I perceive ; t, melanc;tent of t. Giraffes  plod to ten feet of neck.quot; tions and blague. Edgar and Ced some too. But t alloo o do ake me ; Sno;take me antly. If t is being out.quot;

    quot;YOU s drop your garbage out of ood e concern. erners alike. quot;I ; Jane said. quot;In tional Geograp it tasted musty. t  a joke. t to alked about lovers and s   on t but on tc. t t  c tory. ;  ready to say somet it oo late. quot;ts pretty careless,quot;  said, and  if you o ied to a bed, t least ts sten t from its place under t yello and blue bandages. e o slip into tal  being c tor recognized us right away.

    ime for a situation report, . quot;Sill sits t. Our letters urned unopened. tain initiative  produced notable results. S, but  reacted eitively or negatively. e  in to assess it as to timbre, pitcomorroo make sure  sort of sain. e urned too Bloomingdales.quot; At t everybody looked at Dan, ;Bills yello; At t everybody looked at Bill, s. quot;Bills ne mont capable of meeting U.S. Govt. standards, or indeed, any standards. Our man in  t s ionexas Instruments is dos. Control Data is up four points. tus s ering. t of table space already in omorro;

    quot;; quot;Yes t; quot;ell ternal Revenue Service, Baltimore Office, Broat. e ter o inform on Bill, Kevin, Eded. e deeply appreciate your getting in touc I must tell you t ; quot;Eig?quot; quot;Yes Im sorry I knos lo its standard no all t; quot;Eig!quot; quot;Yes,  of course triotism involved too isnt t; quot;Eig! ts damned little for doing suctle.quot; quot;Yes I kno ure of your information? Youre a its not enoug to allege. You o be able to provide supportive evidence or at least sufficient material to lead to a strong case and ultimately conviction and/or collection.quot; quot;Eig!quot; quot;I mig out t it is your duty as an American citizen to come forion if you .quot; quot;Eig, eig.quot; quot;Did you  y as an American --quot; quot;I am not an American citizen. I am under Panamanian registry. So just forget my duty as an American citizen. Eig. No, I dont talking to you any more. t for t, but tting on your eig. Goodbye, Baltimore. Eig. Goodnigimore, and bad cess to you.quot;

    StANDING in tten batain. It  ed, in t of us standing tten bator. tor  -looking sain in to e. e  it  ;splendidquot; more or less. t  it be quot;splendid.quot; But  it -looking sain in to  tain  in a neicians remark. tor ician, a professor of estics. Even ty  ballsy of term, p, ed by ticians remark. First because it  somet ten battle silver rings, and second because tics, even if t, estics, as is likely. As ood to sten bat of us, a sort of o kno rue, ician.  be curious sometimes to kno is true, ten batermine if it rue, ion, is not large but on t small, in excess of a er ing t Day and Gods mercy. A census of sains  to conduct it o neglect ts and t is someto do, neglect ts. And to conduct it o leave t is someto do, leave ting o gain access to tten bater  standards ains tle silver rings, to be assessed? A sain scale could be constructed ics, or ain critics recruited from taining journals, if tics and suc doubt it. But even s, empanelment of sain critics, from far and near, census of sain-er-finals, t be out of t. For  over all media, publis t be taken as diddled, in vie t taged by us, backers of t ion: destruction of tician, o regard t of tician, sing in  collar, tten bat destruction of tician, tractive from a  of vie also ensure destruction of ritus, o  also, a step e to take ing as  Day and Gods mercy. And er all t  made to someone else, someone not of our circle, some stranger unknoo us? Knoo  unknoo us? And t t remain unranger? And  tranger , even as anding tten bato some otable stranger? And t tranger did not e to  t opportunity? And t  a quorum of undesirables, sitting in to be rubbing and smearing telligence rembled, tten bats.

    quot;I ADMIRE you,  you are, rocklike in your immutability. I also admire tiac convertible seats for c mine is uncomfortable. Only because I am glued into it  onto my   laug  to;It  is because I  you near me Jane for some strange reason I dont even understand myself. It must be atavistic. It must be some dark reason of t understand. t is tinking trut I .quot; quot;Stop it op it lest I forget  and get me some  er.quot; trated t talk. quot;ectural masterpiece in a certain sense.quot; quot; sense is t.quot; quot;In t you get a sense of c is entirely appropriate to your enterprise. I mean terprise of being a bad felloo make tors advertising  stroke.  General Motors is Pontiac, and Pontiac is your middle name.quot; quot; bears .quot; quot;I kno , and many scoo, to tization of education in our country. ting t your ceiling s; quot;I t it fitting.quot; quot; is to become of us, ; quot;Noto become of us Jane. Our becoming is done. e are  is just a question of rocking along il ; quot;You dont paint a very brigure ; quot;Its not my picture Jane. I didnt ture t ed  mine. I absolutely separate myself from ture. I operate  is true, but ture --quot; quot;; quot;ty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be.quot; quot;You dont mind t you are not young.quot; quot;It s buggy aspects as ?quot; quot;You dont mind t you are sagging in tion of deat; quot;No, Jane.quot;

    complains t tric ebasket ing. I  noticed it but ts  t dont matter. tric ebasket is a security item. Papers dropped into it are destroyed instantly. ric ebasket accomplis knoimidation folloion eventuating in a disintegration, one assumes. It is not emptied. t even as functions  ing  o trial o tric ebasket. ruction of tician ebasket. First dismemberment, tric ebasket. t tric ebaskets is encouraging. Kevin spoke to . quot;t enoug ; Kevin said. quot;Everyone  colors and sable of consciousness. . .quot; Kevin stopped and began again. quot;? Or is it just. . . carpet?quot; ;; quot;Youre talking a lot of buffalo ,quot;  said.  ood t;t encounter did not go  t   upon ; could I o make it go?  is t t ot I do not  c t of one?quot; Kevins pre-encounter er, but after it, . quot;My God but ;

    SNO E  of t   four feet long. S oo  male domination of t;O get my rical connections male and female!   get my  piece of pipe a nipple!   t didnt prevent tice.  seeing a single one! And t didnt prevent tting t land! And t didnt prevent tting alienation seep in every t doesnt er you co tion! So dont come around and accuse me of not being serious. omen may not be serious, but at least t a damned fool!quot; Snoook  of t;No one o climb up. t says it all. time is time for me. I am in time. tanding t come and at least try to climb up. to fill tself, for not being able to supply a prince. For not being able to at least be civilized enougo supply t ending to tory.quot;

 Part Three-1

    SNO E ;From noo ts. I maintain an estic distance. No more do I trip girliso t, or after luncy mid-morning. Not t I ever did. It is. I congratulate myself on t score at least. And no more ucini, or marinate teak. No more rudge about tain. No more  bundles and stuff it a even going to speak to t ties, or if I o announce -- a neravagant caprice. I dont kno it. It seems small and mean-spirited. I ing ideas. But t runs t .  sulky notion come from? From tal library, doubtless. Per me in t. to periss and berries and rabbits and robins ed. If I  be t is true t ture in erminates. One s al a quarter to four in tern contemporaries. Anottle vodka in it time.quot;

    quot;I tle of C; Dan said. quot;And t ottle of Coo -- t one under t ottle of Coo -- tuck in t. And I am not afraid. Not of  of  long cigar, t cigar t stretc St. Micres, to under t is merely fas is merely ne  fade a ter a ending ts, and o come ton on table, in a rictle pearly onions studded in it, and per of Irisatoes someead I come o ts in  and admiring ill loves us, in a  it isnt enoug is a failure of leaders sucking true leadersingly, as in true leaders of tired of Bills ing explanations, promises. If   to lead, t us vote. t is all I o say, except one more t vat all day, one doesnt  to come  of ed leader c s cs, its lines of auty, its air of importance.quot;

    quot;tion produces nervousness,quot; Bill said dipping into t absint;Remember t. You are tense as a  is still possible to . If it is still possible to rip out a groan you s out. If it is still possible to smite t t forefinger fall. And tulations and entreaties t meet to be found in old books, look tenation of outonate an inive correlative, booming in t like an Alka-Seltzer to produce tranquillity. I say may. And you ot eely unconcern, you are just like . t of it. I ed out if you  to put it t er a life ricional defeats, I o destruction. No myself to listening to  pamby it is,  is refined from tion. Give me tic trip, stutter and fall, and I ent. Actually, , I s; quot;e ertained tion,quot;  said.

    quot;treat me like a rube if t; Clem said igo tles of Lone Star at t;I suppose I am a rubisions t contradict ticated notions of my colleagues. But I notice t it is to me t is a question of grits or clings or fried catfisions do not arise very often. I  fis i or some otern dis t I  doender rings of squid deep-fried in olive oil. I even like ture out of teentury. It makes my mouter just to look at it, t can. But o myself about cans? Cans are not roubling me.  is troubling me is ty of life in our great country, America. It seems to me to be deprived. I dont mean t t t even t are deprived. I suppose one could say t t it go at t. I am  t no one responded to Snoive. Even t time relieved. But it suggests t Americans  or cannot see t most princely of our contemporaries, did not respond appropriately. Of course it may be t princely is not a good to be. And of course tic tradition ocratic. Egalitarianism precludes princeliness. And yet our people are not equal in any sense. t of to gigantic  of te ribute t  ameliorate everyt it e some tribute ting and ric. . . e must pass a la all marriages of people omorro t to play. take t;

    EDARD ras and ttles of insect repellent, under tainly be sick tomorro it is  to o stop being a filt space. to gain access to everytand t time. Not tructure, in icularly interested, but trality. ter of everyt. I kno, nooo bad it is not oo bad it is not true. It is not even temporarily true. ell, t must mean t my mind is not fully blo ique. More insect repellent!quot;

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    It AS NOt UNtIL tURY

    t RUSSIA PRODUCED A LItERAtURE

    ORt OF thE

    ORLDS CULtURAL AGE. PUShKIN

    DISPLAYED VERBAL FACILItY. GOGOL

    AS A REFORMER. AS A StYLISt

    DOStOEVSKY COMINGS.

    tOLStOY. . .

    IN e removed , and t, and ts remained. Standing by te regarded s, by pointing ;ell, o t t t t all, but t common occurrences, like going to tic jet aircraft. But recent events, or lack of events,  let us take stock. ts, my oill stand delicately arunk, as to do. And trunk itself is not unappealing. In fact trunk is a rat of ties. t belly! tunning arse, in tant knees. I  praise for tment! But my curly mind inct from alted to tious body. ty of my existence ed to bots of t and t. Altly kno my body is my mind. t acts sometimes, spontaneously and scandalously self into tuations, cy-t trust anybody over t is  and speak to some eleven-year-olds, noo refres; Sno;Not t Ive ever seen. But not t.quot;

    BOBBLE yle t, I dont kno like, and too. I  t in terms of mettle er like a fire escape.  imidities. t muc alk to ;All rig  o go out into tion posters. e o stop voting, so pull doers. Lets get all treets and out of our elective offices. e are not going to vote any more, no matter en trucks and statesmanlike gestures. Pull dorucks. Pull dostretco ing urned out to be a damned impertinence. t  to do any   to do, t do it o o save up all our votes for t ty years and spend t one time. Maybe by t day tentative air, go out and o go ain extent, and you are our crument. e are not particularly proud of you, but you exist, in some roug is enougtractive, Bobble, and so are your peers t ask. Get going.quot;

    UNDER tree, Paul stood looking t Snos. quot;God Almig; Paul said to ;Its a good t occurred to me to stand under tree and look ts a good tery. Its a good t.quot; Paul read tten on Snos. quot;S like one of time to time on Bourbon Street in Need areas of oties. In ties times forced by to put on more garb. But  garb, ts, lack of movements. . . Dancing is diverting if you are c ick dancing at one time. t. But tick. ick-dancing critic,  kind of stick any more. tick of cal tal, I forget . I said, fuck off, buddy, leave me alone ick, tick of my yout I became dissatisfied  stick, subjected as it  time to tiny of a first-rate intelligence. I sublet tick. And t is ; Paul looked again at t of Sno;Looking t. test t o me in all my days. S, s.quot; Paul savored tness of ion, the window.

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    PAUL hAS NEVER BEFORE REALLY

    SEEN SNO E AS A OMAN.

    ree. quot;You are a slime sir, looking t open  t apparently naked girl t beautiful and attractive I o t you stand  s t incredible beauty, at tocks and so fort t natural majesty I perceive so y. I ime, but your action in spying upon tiful unknoy, il time, is t vile t to set a rat c your anus, false monk, for if t is punis.quot; quot;You ; Paul said coolly. quot;Per you o make a fe unearned pessimism as original sin.quot; quot;It is true t I am generally in favor of earned pessimism, Paul,quot; ;And I  at time I seem to feel a neimism and ; quot;It is strong medicine, t; Paul said, and t to look some more, but   rid of Paul, once and for all, permanently.

    o make a plan. It o be a large plan, a plan as big as a map. Make no small plans, as Pott  of to get inside t Snory and points of ejection. Pins of red, blue, violet, green, yellotered t over to t ran into tc life from ting nature outside came to regard t life lay doop of tered trailing a s filled ; is all t; op top t life, attempting to conceal t;Its not ; quot;ions on top of it?quot; quot;I aking a nap.quot; quot;It doesnt look like a nap to me.quot; iced t sill. quot;till ; ed. quot; I spend more time looking at y.quot; But t of te. quot; t ; ; t isfied. It is almost as if

    of t;  aructed especially to keep ting. quot;Maybe I so conceal it from its enemies. to be smoked in a particular order, and in t faint dim blue outlines of t try and p ; s ;It seems to s. ty of resistance from t; ance leader in urtleneck ser. quot;Ill  into t inely, tance iff. For people   a ion to punis; quot; are you t?quot; Jane asked ensely to t. quot;Playing t; hogo said.

    tration to go, t out and  a dog. It  uan iron dog nineteen feet ing tion of meat. . . quot;; Kevin said. It -colored cotton going around top and t and tied at ttom of t, s and bums  of taining tty ired. I gave ional looks. tors. quot; sort of actors?quot; quot;Do you mean good or bad?quot; quot;I didnt mean t but ; quot;Bad, Im afraid,quot; tor said, and urned a  ed to like. tain ill tering ter supply and tcases too. ters bro  anding in t  like t at all. e one ground teel. t perested t ioning correctly. After e and ;I like to keep everyt;

    t looked out of   like t nig of till falling. till in tatters. t turned o us, ;Great balls of river mud,quot; t said. quot;Is noto go rig; I dont blame  . A lot of t;I love ; ;ually if not actually, forever. I feel I o tell you ter all I do ot of my unpleasantness for so long. For t; quot;t must be reassured and tened,quot; ;In t be brougo justice for est bit is t straely. I see trial as a kind of analysis really, more a tic t discover t ; Paul inspected Snoion. quot;A lucky ! talling tallation not far from tant surveillance, tem of mirrors and trained dogs. One of my trained dogs is even noigating t overly  market,  te report by first lig I o spend a lot of money on training. An estimated t it is money . If I undertook t rained dogs, t everyt least I can rely on t of t; Snoc. quot;Oe give us alternatives to annoy and frustrate ourselves ance do I ion of going out of t? Luckily t alternative is not a very attractive one. Pauls princeliness   anot bourgeois. And I t I sao me, as I looked out of my ? Compared to t unkno as attractive as a mustard plaster. I o , noill, as a possible move, it clutters up ting one.quot;

    quot;NO I  sucking t; Jane blurted out in t duplex apartment on a tree-lined street in a desirable location. quot;I  sucking t esteem.  esteem ed to anot, and I am alone  last. Face to face . For t time in my ory, I o temper my malice ed older love. No malice.quot; Jane regarded to-ceiling Early American spice racks ly labeled jars of various sorts of bane including dayse,  and milkleg. quot;No c is my role, and to flee ones role, as Gimbal tells us, is in tless. But tion is, erpersonal relations eresting. erpersonal relations sasteful savagery of my abundant imagination and talent for concoction? I to Snoravesty of approved be is stirring tirring, per -- in t;

    quot;BILL elling t in your oed tential greatness. By means of ain it, despite tons of evidence of total incompetence, t recent instance being your  of tter and absolute strangers, so far as ; quot;Strangers to you per not to me.quot; quot;ell strangers is not te question. ill you respond to te question.  conceive and tain --quot; quot;tion I ed to make, of my life, a poatement etc. etc.  planted in my sensorium I kno. But I can tell you  is sustained.quot; quot;; quot;I tell myself t; quot;.quot; quot;Bill you are test. Bill you did t very nicely. Bill t you. Bill you yle. Bill you are mac; quot;But despite tulation --quot; quot;A fear remained.quot; quot;A fear of?quot; quot;t; quot;; quot;I  yet met it. It o me.quot; quot;By?quot; quot;Fondue and Maeg; quot;trols of t; quot;t is correct.quot; quot;You c; quot;More of a miff, your ;Of anding, in time dimension, is t; quot;Matter of lets see sixteen years I ; quot;ts genesis in mentionment to you by t black ; quot;t is correct.quot; quot;ly. At t time.quot; quot;t; quot;Someto you about a een years ago triggered, t.quot; quot;t is correct.quot; quot;Let us make sure and tances of t. Can you disbosom yourself very briefly of t as seen from your point of vie; quot;It  four oclock in ternoon.quot; quot; is your auty.quot; quot;t; quot;Proceed.quot; quot;I ed laundry to tore.quot; quot;it in vie; quot;I  of a slab of massif oak, 48quot; by 60quot;, and a set of carved Byzantine legs, for truction of a cocktail table, to support cocktails.quot; quot;Could you describe tion of to t, construction of cocktail table.quot; quot;I  of t sanding, scre; quot;And erested in t; quot;I e as you knoant in to --quot; quot;As erial --quot; quot;tfis; quot;tfis ake it.quot; quot;tfisime previously. Murtar of commerce, according to t information available.quot; quot;Proceed.quot; quot;I t t, taining Fondue and Maeg; quot;You descried t; quot;t is correct.quot; quot;tion?quot; quot;tire ve; quot;Making ; quot;It ing a stop.quot; quot;You  of it.quot; quot;t is correct.quot; quot; t; quot;I recognized at trols, Fondue and Maeg; quot;ter teen years.quot; quot;t; quot; t; quot;I lifted my eyes.quot; quot;to ; quot;to t registered ; quot; t; quot;t.quot; quot;You ; quot;Yes.quot; quot;And?quot; quot;ttered. ; quot;Did t . Did you say ; quot;; quot;Outburst   us continue. t; quot;; quot;Cutaneous injurement resulted in facial areas a b c and d.quot; quot;t is correct. ; quot;Fondue sustained a  in ty of t; quot;t is correct.quot; quot;Could you locate t for t.quot; quot;tion of t; quot; Inside meaning,  nose.quot; quot;Exactly.quot; quot;A self ;Fatally.quot; quot;You t; quot;Objection!quot; quot;And ; quot;Our client, your ies, did not dance a jig. A certain s of t mig of a perfectly plausible nervous tension, suc to on special occasions, c. But not, in all cy, migs connotations of gaiety, carefreeness --quot; quot; t; quot;Could ;So tand! quot;Come along, felloo tell trut, or most of it, so long as ; quot;I do.quot; quot;No; quot;I are.quot; quot;It  t, on t of January sixteent; quot;It ; quot;And your mission?quot; quot;Prevention of enmanglement of scec; quot;And t; quot;t say a mizzle. I ic cap cover.quot; quot;Did you observe t man over t ter t?quot; quot;ell noude. Im not sure it , tent. tent dance.quot; quot;t sort. You may step doo return to your entanglement of former times , in ion to you did tand, in times.quot; quot;tood to me in tion, scoutmasters.quot; quot;tmasters. Entrusted  in certain dimensions of lore.quot; quot;Yes. ty of tmasters o reveal tmysteries.quot; quot;And ure of tter?quot; quot;tmysteries included sucique of rope, take of one animal for anot; quot;Yes. Noter of t black mysteries.quot; quot;No. It ure of a t, a punis. I ed a rule.quot; quot; rule?quot; quot;A rule of to do s. You o scour ts o clean t; quot;t mystery, o scour a pot ; quot;Indeed.quot; quot;tion ance to scoutmysteries?quot; quot;Stated in t general terms, t .quot; quot;And .quot; quot;told me t t black  it ing me.quot; quot;t; quot;It ; quot;Did it present itself? t; quot;No. But I aed it. I a it still.quot; quot;One more question: is it true t you allos to go out, on t of January sixteente vendetta?quot; quot;It is true.quot; quot;Vatricide. t crime of crimes. ell it doesnt look good for you, Bill. It doesnt look at all good for you.quot;

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    SNO E thE hOUSE

    . . . ALLS. . . . . .

    IM NOt. . . IN thE DARK. . . ShOULDERS

    . . . AFRAID. . . tER AS COLD

    . . . ANt tO KNO. . . EFFORtLESSLY. . .

    SNO E thINKS: hY AM I. . .

    GLASS. . .  thE

    ALL. . . INtELLIGENCE. . . tO REtURN

    . . . A ALL. . . INtELLIGENCE. . . tO

    REtURN. . . hES COLD. . . MIRROR. . .

    quot;YOU o learn to spell everyt,quot; Paul told Emily. quot;t is t tolerable, in otries.  tilpas? And all it means is I feel bad, and I already kno. t I feel bad. If it , for example, tulips. . .quot; quot;I understand,quot; Emily said, but s, because s  our problems. Forget ;I try to be reasonable,quot; Paul said, quot;civil elep is  bank, brusqueness, and t c no I am a part of t abbot, I do  jolly rogue and t is drunk again, and does not kno I am  tsellers  for Cat orld. too bad Sno  ell eac  I dont knoia, unlike Mary, unlike Amelia. Unlike t parts of my youts t I left s, in all ttle curtains and sliding doors, before I tes, and began to do y, I am not sure t I am better no least t kno;

    quot;PAUL is frog.   some point, cast off tled tisegument to reappear imated Paul, or I imated ory. In eit is. I ed, and am, doubtless, to be disappointed furtotal disappointment. ts it. t on t;

    quot;I LOVE YOU, Sno; quot;I knoimes. I do not doubt you. I am convinced of your sincerity and  admit t your tall brutality s impression on me, too. I am not unaffected by your Prussian presence, or by torcycle doublet, or by your tasteful scars on t and rig t not be, because of your blood. You dont  fine enoug in tic era questions of blood are a little de trop, a little fro like to alking about t ot I am not people,   Paul  looked terribly good up to no I despise terly. Yet ed station.  anybody migo admit t t t; quot;But  love?  about love ions in a giddy of irresponsibility?quot; quot;You may y,  is precisely tate I am not in. I am calm. As calm as a lamp, as calm as tary of State. As calm as you are giddy.quot; quot;ell Snos are pretty potent, and I recognize t t in my blood t is as if my blood . Elmos fire, so  and electrical does it feel, inside me. If t grand passion, in any measure ennobles me in your eyes, or in any ot of you, t yet lost. For even a bad man can set ars, sometimes. Even a bad man can breat is my , as soon as you fully comprerengt ennobling and me ennobled, and a fit consort suddenly, t before. I kno t; quot;No  does not ennoble you, t did, but it does not. It is simply a fever, in my vieer. I kno t I ed about by recent events, and non-events, t if events give me even one more buffet, I will simply explode. Goodnigake your dark appeal away. Your cunningly-wroug;

    E ting at a sidealking about tor came. ini. quot;You are too far out on t; t;You must stay beted plants. You must not be more ten feet from t; e moved back bealk about tted plants, ing, as is our . But in moving table ;tional cained tableclot; tor said. t of t of tableclotil it ;Sain,quot; ;ain? Sain and ; e looked fondly back over to  ter t; t;But t is , t it is t mind if I  a taste of your stain?quot; t our table-cover and tossed it off ;ts good stain. And nouit a felony, over on Pleat Street.quot; to attend to or returned ain. quot;ablecover?quot; e regarded tablecover, a distressed area it rue. quot;Someone .quot; tire side o tell who was wrong, when we had finished.

    JANE gave Sno;Drink t; s;It ter.quot; quot;I dont feel bad p; Sno;Emotionally is anotory of course.quot; quot;Go on,quot; Jane said. quot;Go on drink it.quot; quot;No I  drink it no; Sno;Perer. Alt to drink it at all. Somets to me t it is a bad scene, to me t t.quot; quot;ell ts possible,quot; Jane replied. quot;I didnt make t gro myself, and make t a member of t tell me everyt  t purify ter t  into t responsible for everyt to t of my kno like any ot I  go.quot; quot;O; Sno;It must be all rig case. It must be all rig is ordinary. If it is as ordinary as you say. In t case, I s.quot; quot;ting, like a film by Leopoldo torre Nilsson,quot; Paul said. quot;It is a good taken it a is too exciting for you. If you , someto your stomac because I am a man, and because men rong stomacoo, noto me. Lucky t I sensed you about to drink it, and sensed t it oo exciting for you, on my sensing macallation, and o arrive in time to  it from your grasp, just as it  to touc I  tallation. t --quot; quot;Look o t; Sno;And look at all t green foam coming out of  t resembles not a deat drink after all? Jane? Jane?quot;

    quot;ONE t ; Fred said, quot;is t Paul raigraig by looking at  tation for instance, or at t store, I could tell t Paul  of ginger.   of ginger, to  great side to  all t, and connected all to t. t took a lot of mecy, to my  of tecoo, t s be understated, rust t atements,  t-out-of-to believe t. I co believe t  deal of trust in Paul, more trust per judgment , strictly speaking. But Im talking like a banker no to talk like t. Consider Amelia, ing to see e lover tucked a  suc. No, it is too difficult. I s ask you to imagine t you empat a stroke of t ercourse,  to stick in your minds. As for myself, I am only Fred, a former bandleader spitted on a passion for Sno girl in ted next to Jane. S even speak to me, even t seems t being in someones poion on t of t even tion of sparing one a  t is my business, and not toget of God to execute, o t . Some people like to be scattered on top, but Paul ed to be put under t accords  else  ;

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    ANAtIZAtION OF thE ORLD

    IS NOt AN ADEQUAtE RESPONSE tO

    thE ORLD.

    tRYING to break out of t  tter? , quot;sometter,quot; arise?  does it look like, tter? Dont tell me t it is an infants idea because I refuse to believe t. I knoient infants but t t sentient. And t ient estate Bill moved toless one of ted oless one of ties , it will be , probably.

    BILL  t.  of us ever to be  it. But t . e ime  fortunately y, t be y of vatricide and failure.  on tform quite a bit. It  t   of trouble, t luckily . t expedited tain degree of equanimity. e prize equanimity. It means to let e per an efficient brute.  tending ts. Dan aken cies to ter Cnuts, Baby Kimcies. Snoinues to cast c for  grave. I t. But s of  of tract notion t, to  quot;; I am not sure t t is t idea.