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    Experimentation ;absurd,quot; botecotally ne in literature, especially for tt, Gen¨ºt, and Robbe-Grillet. Like ters, Mr. Bartirizes and mimics most of ture, and, ts of ers, makes t;; Yet ts, altic, do not necessarily contain tations of most ers of tale tor is ty-five years old, six feet tall, . eacrated in o h him because, officially, he is a child!

    tive stories of dark o be interpreted on many levels, and offer refresing reading.

    quot;. . .at long last, for better or for ed precisely ories ends  a  proclaiming t even its metapest ; -- times

    quot;. . . Barto evoke tful laugonis t is a stimulant. ed certain effects t seem to be neerature of tance as an experimentalist.quot; -- Granville urday Review

    Donald Barty-texan noy. er, a magazine editor, and a museum director, and served in tly managing editor of t-literary revieion, and is at , Neing, her magazines.

 Florence Green Is 81

    Dinner onig to go to some otry, s t Florence says notion, no elaboration, after a satisfied look around table bang! s Florences rig understand. I give iating look (a look t says, quot;to , I er in ters Kat;). Lentils vegetate in talking about Quemoy and Matsu. quot;Its a matter of leading from strengt is trongest possible move on our part? to deny t; Baskerville, a sop ters Scport, Connecticut,  of becoming a famous er, is making ed notes. tarys knees, very prominent and irritating. Florence began t;tairs bat;  does  Quemoy and Matsu? I cant remember, I cant remember. . .

    Ocer  first  your life, is it t kind of life, does it  people in it, is it going ead you are beglamoured by J. D. Ratcliff. t city in ted States ion over 100,000 is Santa Ana, California, le toget t very brilliant, very ingratiating, I adopt tiating tone because I cant   , called tension Reduction (social-psycudies, learned disputation, letters-to-tor, anxiety in rats). Isnt t distasteful? Certainly it is distasteful but if Florence Green takes o anotry . From an article in tension Reduction: quot;One source of concern in ter betient and psyc is tients fear of boring tor.quot; tor no doubt is also  en minutes bette in and  to kno to play, tor (. I am free associating, brilliantly, brilliantly, to put you into tension Reduction is concerned ensions (drums along to interpersonal relations (Baskerville and too mucension in t example, my stomac. Notice tiating tone , I refer to tomacroducing quarts of Fleisc source of tension reduction, I favor tablis of comfort stations providing free Fleiscreet corner of ty of Santa Ana, California, and all oties. Be serious, cant you?

    tc looming over t are very promising. Surely . I am tempted to remove my s and srim midsection sporting cly developed pectoral-latissimus tie-in. Jackson called er County, S.C.; but Parton ary evidence to s Jackson y, N.C., less ter mile from t emporary reports are to be believed, lousy lats. I am also a  and admirer of Jackson and tion and four miscarriages;  only at ters Scport, Connecticut, but in every part of t ;ts a slo one,quot;  teac;t boy is ; eac;ts a sloc; eac, rigirely correct, still I learned about Andreions, many of you reets of Santa Ana, California, and all oties kno eit;In sucient sees tor as a icated consumer of outr¨¦ material, a connoisseur of exotic beends to propose ric (or more ill) tty, or asticates.quot; You see? Isnt t sensible? In tages try of t openly advocate tension reduction but I did run an article titled quot;Alco; ten by a talented soak of my acquaintance  drinkers in psycments all over t, dry and misunderstood country. . .

    quot;ts a sloc; eac a meeting called to discuss tion of a special program for Inferior Students, in exas eyes, s secured by post from Joe eider, quot;trainer of terror Fig; (are ters? do t terror? or do t? tter ing plans for tending ters Sco learn o e. quot;You ; said trar, ting results of Baskervilles talent test lying unexamined before ;Run along noo t; quot;I am ing doctor an immense novel to be called t; (ors name,  girl eige texaco! texaco breaks my , texaco is particularly poignant. Florence Green  girl once made a voyage  pianist Mandrake t could not be persuaded to play. t use  of try refused to sell o title of my second book   tairs bat;I  and look at it, and  y-five dollars for a ne  a ne ed t; So obtain a ne of solid  be ingratiating? Does s ; make parts for t kind any more.quot; No table, except for erious statement, delivered  to go to some otry!), s soever. . . ter of t ter of t tor is 7926.68 miles, mark it and strike it. I am sure tor, ors doctorly air of being needed and necessary. o tion as if to say: Just make me Secretary of State and tion. quot;Ill tell you one t of C; Surely tone, Baskerville oned by ty of ters Scation of  lesson:  is  Florence adores doctors, , as a doctor? t tant researc (use of radioactive tracers in reptiles) ant ramifications in stomacestine is very like a reptile). t ty, cancer frig in Ne very brilliant, very ingratiating, I edit  ? And you accepted my explanation?  really Kat is Joan Graroduced s;Oive of Dallas Mr. Baskerville?quot; No Joan baby I am a native of Bengazi sent o screiful ass rigo t is not  er and poet (t is to say: a man stronger and more eloquent t;It moves,quot; Mandrake said, pointing to tect test movement, ty   contradicted (trument sat in tar in the sea).

    ttling t appears to be a sebaceous cyst (I can clear t up for you; my instrument  if Mandrake  if ed rument, raised ? t to  to ask questions. If not try, t country? Italy? quot;No,quot; Florence says smiling t;not Italy. Ive been to Italy. Altaly.quot; quot;to bore tor is to become, for tient, a case similar to otient strives migo establisactic for evading tic issue.quot; t to Florence Green at tances;It is closing time in t Cyril Connolly.quot; t rengted again, on t;Before trude Stein.quot; Joan is like one of tease in a ;It moves,quot; Mandrake said, and tself a fe;It moves,quot; tic suggestion. quot;It moves,quot; Joan says, pointing at to side  rembling movement. I give trongest possible terms, and Joan grins gratefully not at me but at Pamela ;e ion, I sat up all nigomac believe.quot; tions, tion is not  ted men is ty-seven. You cant do mucfit like t.quot; true, I myself am ty-seven and if C rely on men of my sort t as ter telligent conversation except t in bed  Ligalic.

    Despite ed ion of t o be quot;promoted,quot; but on trary ;promoted,quot; t  e of ential, as a c rue , still  Andreernoon in June 1945 -- it ting untidily on a cy identically framed pograpeen to eigy at eig aining t pictures from Buc look a, or a little of text, ted. icle again, but  understanding it.  did exterminated mean? It meant notness account mentioned a little girl op of a truckload of corpses to be burned. Florence ely to t in est Virginia. Later sted me to tell  tsk. quot;I spotted you for a ; Joan says. quot;But not for a poet,quot; Baskerville replies. quot; ten?quot; s;Mostly I make remarks,quot; I say. quot;Remarks are not literature,quot; s;t; I say, quot;it uesday.quot; quot;Publis; s;Not finis; I say, quot;s very violent and necessary. It o do  I mean really ars, recoilless rifles, tral figure is teen. One day ty, in a park, and takes up positions. t begins killing tand?quot; quot;I dont t,quot; Joan says. quot;I dont like it eit; Baskerville says, quot;but it doesnt make any difference t I dont like it. Mr. es fiction as t y Oscar ilde.quot;

    Does Florence  ; make parts for t kind any more.quot; Last year Florence tried to join telep to complain. quot;I ers,quot; Joan says. I feel feverisake my temperature doctor? Baskerville t simple preliterate soaks up all taylors Neate malmsey in reac ;Not Japan dear,  I   to go back nole niece is, ty-t t ; t is ant Lakes of tric System is  us measure sometogetrade you a er for a single golden micron. table is  Florence y-one ;Meano c a very good job , I t e Duff o all t trouble, . Mind you Ive been using taics batime.quot; In fact tory of Florences radio listenerserest. In fact I o e a paper called quot;tory of Florence Greens Radio Listeners; Or pereentury style, quot;true ory of Florence Greens Radio Listeners; Or per I am boring you, I sense it, let me say only t sill elicit, from  larynx, to introduce Captain Midnigable is  a description of Florences canes. Florences canes line a special room, tion is kept. taire canes and rougocks, blackterstaffs, cudgels and sicks, bamboo and ironangier, Maine, Zuricy, Quebec, togoland, tas and Borneo, resting in notcments t resemble arms racks in an armory. Everyer dark and dinner) as vast as tsk, 590,000 square miles. I ting, I remember, in a German restaurant on Lexington, blo t table talking. At Florence Greens able t named Onacles rue poets and ; I am  ter ted after all on trengt is o o Joan?  of eyeed to o see ers Sc could be more glamorous or necessary t;An army of youtandard of trut; as o sing in my fourt Our Lady of ter Scica whe head of a pin. . .

    Florence I eresting. Srying to establis really  to go a tant Lakes of terminate services of employees e you, brig seems to knoered, dined, sat in a cime observing tenant colonels and t into treet. t German man sing traffic.  into traffic island and tugged at  politely toed one, and cracked . reet. to ting tely, until so you of t Florence did  more or less, surned to try under restraint on a military plane. quot;; quot;Because everybody ely dead. You and I and On; quot;Youre not very sanguine.quot; quot;ts true.quot; For an earls younger sons ters commence: Madam. . . quot;e put in tairs bato visit us. Bad er and s climb stairs.quot;  about Casablanca? Santa Cruz? Functa? Ir¨¢klion? Samos? or Bay? Dubrovnik? quot;I  to go to some ot; Florence says. quot;Some; For talent test a necessary but not a sufficient condition for matriculation at ters Sc;Impressions of Akronquot; reets of Akron carrying little transistor radios ;

    Florence s on tuesday evenings, at al old multibato recite and ted you must compose a poem. t in t;Florence Green is eigs of fun. . .quot; On;t; Florence carries t apled togetly ricly egocentric old-! Six modifiers modify o somet. quot;But you  grasped ty, t;  J. D. Ratcliff?) said severely: quot;Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature.quot; quot;terature,quot; Baskerville replied grandly, quot;is tion of a strange object covered .quot; Joan says: quot;I ;?quot; I ask. quot;I dont kno; sruck by ty of ening and  may be described as a ;ts a terrible to say,quot; , rigirely correct, errible trengt ters, love becomes possible. 1 carry in my  an eigant of my young immaculate Army to troops: quot;(1) You are in ted to be. So you o do  do  of to do  nobody  is important t ogetant and anybody   of t be afraid of t   you. (5) Everybody o do s to do. People  any more. (6) talking to people rictly forbidden. Ot understand t laugaken a of t ts to do noroy t;<dfn>£èt£ô£ð://£÷</dfn>

    I  to go some idea. total otsu remain ours, temporarily perairs bating, drifting a very brilliant, very ingratiating, I edit. . . but I explained all t. In t is dangerous but it is a  everyt once. tian arrives to resume . No one aken Florence seriously, aken seriously? But I kno or Bay? S in anot. Outside it is raining. In my rain-blue Volksreet to drive my tiny car in idiot circles in treet, I begin to sing t great Kyrie.

 The Piano Player

    Outside  as a mailbox (red ser, blue lumpy corduroy pants), looked around poignantly for someone to erfly locked inside t mailbox, surely;  ever escape? Or y of mailboxness stuck to s, like  of green Silly Putty disappeared into fat Priscilla urned to greet he door on her hands and knees.

    quot;Yes?quot; ; no;

    quot;Im ugly,quot; sting back on ;Our c;

    quot;Nonsense,quot; Brian said s;tiful. Ot our c up and go back out to to be curing a ;

    quot;t; s;I couldnt cure it. I tried everyt love me any more. tale. Im ugly and so are t said to tell you goodbye.quot;

    quot;It?quot;

    quot;t; s;Is one of our celegrams. erosexual?quot; Sic;ting aeel ed to live in Connecticut? I dont kno;

    quot;Get up,quot; ly, quot;get up, dearly beloved. Stand up and sing. Sing Parsifal.quot;

    quot;I  a triump; s;A tR-4. Everyone in Stamford, every single person,  me. If you gave me a tR-4 Id put our ugly c and drive ao ellfleet. Id take all t of your life.quot;

    quot;A green one?quot;

    quot;A red one,quot; s;Red s.quot;

    quot;Arent you supposed to be c?quot; ;I bougronic data processing system. An IBM.quot;

    quot;I  to go to ellfleet,quot; s;I  to talk to Edmund ilson and take R-4- t to talk about, Bunny and me.quot;

    quot; you remove t; Brian said kindly. quot;Its too bad about t;

    quot;I loved t ; s;o ty of texas on your roan Volvo, I t you o be somebody. I gave you my  rings on it. Rings t my mot you o be distinguis;

    ;Everytters,quot; ;Play t you?quot;

    quot;You al; s;My four or five caugo be afraid of it. t I dont suppose you care.quot;

    quot; can ,quot; ;;

    quot;tty in t; sonelessly.

    quot;Rain is falling,quot; ;Rain or somet;

    quot;ed from ton Sc; s;I t at last! I t noo Stamford and eresting neig t interesting. teresting but ime. teresting. t open it at 3:31 p.m. today. es late. t lied again.quot;

    iture of impatience, Brian turned on t. t burst of electricity illuminated urned tiny face. Eyes like snoamar dancing. My name in tionary, in teral Good Fortune. Piano bread perern orld. Coriolanus.

    quot;O; s;Look at my knees.quot;

    Brian looked. her knees were blushing.

    quot;Its senseless, senseless, senseless,quot; s;Ive been caulking t.  for? I dont kno to give me more money. Ben is bleeding. Bessie s to be an S.S. man. Sified  ;

    quot;Yes. Bessie.quot;

    quot;s t;

    quot;Billy. Named after your fat;

    quot;Youve got to get me an air o clean teets t disease? t, every single one, if you dont get me an air ;

    quot;And a compressor,quot; Brian said. quot;And a Pinetop Smit;

    Stered against terrazzo. ten large on . ig. quot;Altmans is ; s;Maybe I s;

    quot;Listen,quot; ;Get up. Go into trundle t too muc.quot;

    quot;You  touc piano,quot; s;Not in a million years.quot;

    quot;You really t?quot;

    quot;Not in a million years,quot; s;you p;

    quot;All rig; Brian said quietly. quot;All rig; rode over to took a good grip on its black varniso trundle it across ter a sligation, it struck him dead.

 Hiding Man

    Enter expecting to find ty (I. A. L. Burligame  it is not, tting  side, er moments t t if ile,  (no bulb be sign, no certainty t it leads anyle Attack of t People. Previously observed films at same ter, Cool and t of t, Diary of a ending toed offscreen rapes, obscene tortures: man y, cut to girls face, to pliers, to mans face, to girl, scream, blackout.

    quot;Its better ing voice sligo carry over Pinocc people. Voice pleasant, eyes beer? C, indifference, pique, se. Keep eye on EXIt,  boy in lobby, e for? quot;Of course its never been full.quot; Apparently to be a conversation. quot;Not all tter of fact, youre t one to come in, ever.quot;

    quot;People dont alell trut;

    Let . Boy in lobby -s, printed t of tion, duties: lying, spying, tapping ting fires, civil disorders. Seat myself on opposite side of ter from Negro and observe film. Screen torn from top to bottom, a large rent, faces and parts of gestures fall off into t Joanding, psycanding, falls back at onrus people. Young lieutenant defends Army nurse (uniform in rags, tasty t) from obvious sexual intent of splinter men.

    quot;Dont you kno; calls friend in friendly tone. quot;Didnt you see t;

    quot;ture is on. And youre ;

    Signs after all mean everyone, if to be exceptions let ted: soldiers, sailors, airmen, ces, dogs under suitable restraint, distressed gentlefolk, people o peek. ell-dressed Negroes beers, ttempt to scrape acquaintance, te of menace as in Dragstrip Riot, as in terror from teur nigo deal?

    quot;t keeps running,quot; alleges friend. quot;ts ing. Continuous performances since 1944. Just keeps rolling along.quot; tilts rically. quot;It  even any good t;

    quot;;

    quot;I dont ts an interesting question.quot;

    Friend looks bland, studies film. Fires arted in many areas, trust myself to t so also are treets, opening doors, looking strangers in t live  placing ance, as in  planes, women. Flig is always possible.

    quot; I meant ; continues friend, animated nouring, quot;oters.  lost in t you in a minute. But most people, t; I. A. L. Burligame e ores ectives ings of Sons and Daug s? Keep moving, counterpuncion of motives reveals appeal of dark places o do ance. But because I feel imation  people do old, NO LOItERING, NO PARKING BEtEEN 8 AM AND 5 PM, KEEP OFF t. Negro moves ts closer, loially.

    quot;Of course its no concern of mine. . .quot; Face appears gentle, interested, as -cum-strangler in Circus of ;Of course I couldnt care less. But frankly, I feel a certain  of seriousness.quot;

    quot;I am absolutely serious.quot;

    On tagonist is purely, simply o be: er. But ? All of life is rooted in contradiction, movement in direction of self, t be room for irony.

    quot;t are you doing ; Friend sits back in sliding seat . quot;Surely you dont imagine table place?quot;

    quot;It looked good, from tside. And t you.quot;

    quot;A I am  do you kno me? Notely not;

    quot;So could I be anybody. And I notice t you too keep an eye on t;

    quot;tic for eac; Said smoot;Names Bane, by t; Ligations. quot;Not my real one, of course.quot;

    quot;Of course.quot; Pipe signal to confederates posted in balcony, be signs? Or is all tal, concealing vain , empty brain? On screen famous scientist o contain puppet people, involving mutant termites t try is in a panic, all Street  looks grave. And -s, e?

    quot;Im a dealer in notions,quot; friend volunteers. quot;Dancing dolls, learn ing analysis by mail, secrets of eternal life, coins and stamps, amaze your friends, pagan rites, abandoned, trated ion of rare daggers, gurkilettos, bo;

    quot;And w are you doing ;

    quot;Like you,quot; ;atcure. Just dropped in.quot;

    e resume vieives in igniting conversation: (1) Agent of terespionage, (4) talent scout for Police Informers Sc researctack of t People, (6) Plain nosy bastard unconnected  tenable, if (6), ered in remark quot;People dont alell trut; in remark quot;I notice you too keep an eye on t; Also discourse tern, too curious, too kno. Cover story to rare daggers, gurking, to even t inept operator, as in government elevision, uranium, systems development, public relations? Also disguise is commonplace, ends fascination s on screen,  o my certain kno last  empting to suggest tability of time? Odor of sness from someify at tance, w does ? Now  very well.

    quot;tell me exactly  is you ; orious mission.

    Bomb fails to fire, Burligame reacts not. Face ty, in rocious p care less. Bane noask con amore, it is clear t  sent by , tion are not clear.

    quot;Look,quot; pleads cs, en for trayal.  confide in me, tle longer, sometimes I times my eyes close  instruction. tcter tell you my real name.quot;

    Possible emotions in tant sincerity: repugnance, , camaraderie, denounce o ties (till auties). And yet, is t circumstance before  real life, risk and danger, as in Voodoo oman, as in Creature from the Black Lagoon?

    Bane continues. quot;My real name (?) is Adrian  is tumely, it able. tems, in 1944 I mailed a letter in , I moved t day, it  urn to accuse me. My life since er anotford, atkins, atley, atloson, att, noity is gone, blown away, w;

    Bane-o sob, cooling system scy life a texture of mysterious noises, starting and stopping, starting and stopping, rol of t only at tory, ive,  termites devouring puppet people at a great rate, decorations for tists, tasty nurse for young lieutenant, t   real after all. Cing exists on every level, ttempt to deny  to be true. Bane-rains credulity, a pig in a poke, if not (6) or (1) am I prepared to deal y? But oleration, unnatural, it s occasions, telegram in t, rail disasters, earthquakes, war.

    quot;I squot; (my voice curiously tentative, fluting), quot; boy in t Our Lady of ted me to go out for basketball, I , Fatic priest said I avoided o seek out occasions of sin, in addition to tion to various oted before an interested group of my contemporaries.quot;

    Bane-ens, ceases sobbing, mean U. S. Army, t Joions, oonates on launcronger and ser, are t, is time in truth passing?

    quot;Fatook ed on knoo knoo believe. Or believed too mucely. to one o slogans ted to my confessor t certain aspects of tual compared unfavorably ion scene in Bride of Frankenstein. ;

    Bane-hipkiss pales, he himself is shocked.

    quot;But because  ed interest in me,  to make clear t invite terest, it embarrassed me, I  my fault t in all t undernourised sufficient  o pusy to t?quot;

    quot;You could ; Bane-hipkiss says reasonably.

    quot;t unately only t of a good Act of Contrition, Fating ed doo return. Running past people doing tations of t tiny Negro lady, somebodys maid, our only black paris in t roe, er: impure ts, anger, dirty ;

    Bane-ravels ts nearer ( a time?), to ;Impure ts?quot;

    quot;My impure ts icularly detailed and grap t time principally Nedda Ann Busreet from us and ing revelations of beauty, t being just rig, 18 October 1943, a particularly cransfer of pants from person to clotes subsequent exposure in state of nature. Before s to turn out t.quot;

    quot;Extraordinary!quot; Bane- is clear t confession is doing ;But surely t extended some sort of spiritual consolation, counsel. . .quot;

    quot; of a Baby Rut;

    quot;t;

    quot;ed me to gro . y title.quot;

    quot;But it  of kindness.quot;

    quot;t old  going out. In terious eadfast refusal to understand tions, erest in female parts ly pursued, as under ioning intended to bring fortail, including self-abuse and compulsive overconsumption of Baby Rutterfingers, significance of   pointed out to me by t;

    Bane-urbed,  is a disturbing story, t disgust, life is not all Vistavision and to plumb. tion of risk is tions and foundations, fe sinners.

    quot;Became ticlerical. No longer loved God, cringed at y limericks involving rotally alienated. t became clear t t so one-sided as  first appeared, t t.quot;

    quot;A;

    quot;to me by a renegade Brot overbrig good in secret recesses of , ing t issue.quot;

    quot;Good God!quot; expletes Bane- flavor here of. . .

    quot;It is kept rigorously up-to-date by tor, a ratical man. As are, in my experience, most cionaries just under episcopal rank. Paradoxically, t.quot;

    Bane-;You still believe in saints?quot;

    quot;I believe in saints,

    quot;er,

    quot;Poor boxes,

    quot;Ashes on Ash ednesday,

    quot;Lilies on Easter Sunday,

    quot;Cr¨¨ches, censers, choirs,

    quot;Albs, Bibles, miters, martyrs,

    quot;Little red lights,

    quot;Ladies of tar Society,

    quot;Knights of Columbus,

    quot;Cassocks and cruets,

    quot;Dispensations and indulgences,

    quot;the efficacy of prayer,

    quot;Right Reverends and Very Reverends,

    quot;tabernacles, monstrances,

    quot;Bells ringing, people singing,

    quot;ine and bread,

    quot;Sisters, Brothers,

    quot;t of sanctuary,

    quot;the papacy,

    quot;Bulls and concordats,

    quot;t Judgment,

    quot;heaven and hell,

    quot;I believe it all. Its impossible not to believe. ts .quot;

    quot;But t;

    quot;It ball I didnt believe in.quot;

    But t  ritual y of otuals, otions, for instance Blood of Dracula, Amazing Colossal Man, It Conquered t, t one believes  vision ly exalts and vilifies to Amazing Colossal Man all  rols, ts, tately pairs, I remember t dodging into doorreets!

    Bane-, opens mouto speak.

    quot;I ;

    quot;Confess,quot; I urge, quot;feel free.quot;

    quot;I  ;

    Under tibet, ts even in the lamaseries.

    quot;t reminds me of somet; I state, but Bane-o ;Look!quot; As Burligame srips aands grinning e! I pretend imperturbability. quot;t reminds me, regarding t I eresting example. . .quot;

    But errupts.

    quot;Your position, s,quot; ates, quot;but on t alloegrity of our operation to be placed in question,  some lemons just like any otakes it into o flee us, art a trend. It o use t; (ily) quot;to get close to you, it ;

    Barefaced Bane-tles on,  last been taken, must ill t, into tool, out t;I am empoo use force,quot; s, frowning.

    quot;Regarding t I ; I state, quot;or beginning to make, tcself a ritual, many people vieand ;

    quot;At present I ; ;ly?quot;

    quot;No,quot; I affirm, quot;pay attention to ture, it is trying to tell you sometion is not so frequent in times t one can afford to diddle it a;

    quot;I must ; ;t to a man filled ; ates proudly, quot;is my middle name.quot;

    quot;I  stir.quot;

    quot;You must.quot;

    Notle priests feet, sides, a cunning smile on face no of o demonstrate purity of intent. Strange  of t, fearful reddis to sky, as in It Conquered tness from beneats is overpotempted to , join needle to deadly body of instrument, crouc in mystical ecstasy, I grasp , plunge needle into neck, o a lump among ts, in a moment he will begin barking like a dog.

    Most people  t to be afraid, most vieelevision, smoke cigars, fondle  gladiolus, iris, p Screaming Skull, teenage ere ion of ation not certified by eenage erereets under s  t is dangerous to ignore a vision, consider Bane-o bark.

 Will You Tell Me?

    gave Cmas. ts name ood around t Paul; t get enoug ? C said. It  o o please Chey drank more wine.

    Eric was born.

    and Irene ine affair. It ant t t C knoo t a bed ance from t comfortable enoug and Irene tfully. ted for twelve years and was considered very successful.

    hilda.

    Cco begin  a baby, tty young girl! C to ten tips of ty breasts eet soo old for most boys Pauls age, but not for Paul.

    s son Eric ed  could not have her.

    In tinued making . tall Scz cans and a plastic substance ify. to oto t to frigo er  on treet.

    doree in the back yard. hy?

    Do you kno  and Irene are having an affair? hilda asked Paul. he nodded.

    t I dont care.

    In Montreal t:  is  seemed to Paul and  tion. treal o t about tion in an ambiance of kindness.

    C  gave us Paul,  to  doree.

    Eric sat by himself.

    Paul put  about tion. France!

    Irene bouger presents for everyone.  of ton of tree wened.

    Dialogue between Paul and Ann:

    -- You say anyt crao your ed.

    -- Go peddle your h Girl.

    It is a portrait,  said, composed of all tion in t.

    Erics bomb exploded  splas.  was frig  answer.

    Irene and Calked about Paul. I ing along in France? C Rosemarie. C Eric   ured by er son, Paul. oo about trange ;foster,quot; about  could   by t?  could   by quot;from t;?  imagine, Irene said. t was evening.

    In Silkeborg, Denmark, Paul regarded fully. You love Inge, souched her hand.

    Rosemarie returned.

    Paul grew older. O poor fucker Eric he said.

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    ty of tween  and Irene:

    tty good bed , Irene said. Except t its not really quite wide enough.

    You kno Paul is manufacturing bombs in your cellar dont you?  asked.

    Inge bruser.

    man, Rosemarie asked,  dogs?

    in a caf¨¦ ing for Paul to return from Denmark. In t o ing for Paul. Oed voice, let me sit do a minute. Just a minute. I  bot  to sit  your table and be near you. I . But dont touch me.

    Ce a poem about Rosemaries dog, Ed ina.

    Daddy,  Ededly. Because youve been away Rosemarie, Charles said.

    At Yale Eric walked around.

    Irene said:  I love you.  said t  t Montreals green snohe Black Sea.

    t doree old anyone,  it  as old as I  t time, sixteen, and it iful, and I iful I tree and me, and I couldnt stand it, ill beautiful, no nineteen,  dont touch me, hilda said.

    .  ten t on t? Ninety-t said, every monts not muc reac o caress Irene but decided not to.

    Inge smiled in t from tory candle.

    Edired of posing for Cretc himself.

    In tic for anotcree lay on able. Seeds fell into oolbox. From t  by quot;from t;? real. er lay across a cle, but  malicious, Einstein said. Paul ools in o find more Scz cans, . Quickly.

    Irene . S.  ter. And I, I am still quite beautiful, s in t in a different y. Oh!

    From the bank? Inge wondered.

    Eric came he holidays.

    Anna teresa tymieniecka e a book to ed a foreword.

    Rosemarie made a list of all t ten ter t morning:

    George Lewis

    Peter Elkin

    Joan Elkin

    off

    Edgar Rich

    Marcy Powers

    Sue Brownly

    and many others

    Paul said to t tore: I need a neh his hands. Oh hilda!

    is tle name? C.  said, is Paul. A small one, isnt  ed.

    Can I buy you a drink? ? Its one of te drinks of try. Your time is up  out of t a minute, ry isnt it? No, ry is precisely  insofar as your sitting at table is concerned. Besides, Ive decided to go to Denmark on t plane.

    ted in ating  of doing treet before reet. Rosemarie ate a boe Oats.

    Eric cut ters.

    t o detonate. z can at me  ticking like a bomb?

    hilda appeared in Pauls cellar. Paul, she asked, can I borrow an axe? or a saw?

    touc. You iful breasts, o Irene. I like too mature? Irene asked anxiously.

    Mature?

    3

    Ann ted Paul but could not h Inge in Denmark.

    From c playing under tree. S deeply into a black pear. It tasted bad and  tree inquiringly. Carted to cry. ate of surprise, decided to get someto eat. Irene  or.  ore?

    Rosemarie looked at Paul. But of course oo young for me, s.

    Ed on treet.

    Inge e tter to Ann to explain w have Paul:

    Dear Ann --

    I deeply appreciate timents expressed by you in our recent so-selepion. Is t? I oo t you are son Line is one of my favorite lines.  tell you t Paul is at present deeply embedded in a love affair e, a very nice girl  respond to your proposals, cated as tyle on telep point out t if Paul loves any girl oture it y t  met yet -- te, I t tional o time to time.

    Your friend,

    Inge

    Couc, one of Irenes. You iful breasts Irene, Chank you, Irene said, Charles.

    o Eric was never delivered.

    t seriously about mas present to C can I get for t ely ster theyd like a gamelan? a rag rug?

    O o you!  t for supper?

    younger poet noing in English in isconsin.

    C is stained ears! Let me make you a  come from tore, uce, mustard and paper napkins. C lately by tear-stained vest. Not in a long time, Irene said, s been acting sort of distant lately for some strange reason. Ora ninety-t? I need some floor poliso subscribe to tional Geographic.

    Every month?

    Ann looked over t to it, not just one but a dozen or more. ted upon ter.

    quot;But I cant stand t God ;

    quot;Can you give me a urine sample?quot; asked the nurse.

    Paul placed oolbox. as t a sgun Eric  in tore?

    Irene,  said, I love you. Ive aled to mention it ted by t t you are married to my close friend, Co you er, for almost t time. I feel intimate. I feel like t be some love in you for me, too. tmas present was symbolic?

    Inge smiled.

    Rosemarie smiled.

    Ann smiled.

    Goodbye, Inge, Paul said. Your wonderful blondness  way. Goodbye! Goodbye!

    ticulated thiopia.

    American Express.  s o Denmark. urned to t  really meant it.

    C some more o mull.

    candidly: o be an anarc isnt he?

    Put ty Scz cans over truck in tter get some snoires pretty soon t snoed for tire region sly. Deep snow.

    o  understand me, ts okay, but I am afraid you do understand me. In t case, I think I will have dreams.

    sgun?  asked.

    It is virtually impossible to read one of Joel S. Goldsmit becoming a better person Eric, Rosemarie said.

    Eric, take t sgun out of your mouted.

    Eric!

    4

    O,  you know o grow?

    tryside (tryside of France) .

    Inge stretc and left arms luxuriously. You  me so muc alto consort once more  all-time all-timer girl, it still pleases me to be  to talk about pion no a muffin?

    Eded his Pard.

    From the bank? Rosemarie asked herself.

    I o go to t. Do you mind? Since s position in t itled to a little relaxation in the golden sun. Okay?

    trol boat captain said: hs?

    tree reacurdily for tree.

    o  as a gift, or simply take it over to C decide. o   started to cry. I oo strong?

    treal banked itself against t is . t t be in t t be sure. It might be illusory.

    I attoo myself attractively?

    -- s possible noo be togeto stay togeto live toget is your rying time, a time in  from t cetera et cetera, and even c a job.

    -- t sounds wonderful, Aaron.

    Eric?

 For Im the Boy Whose Only Joy Is Loving You

    On trip back from till I dont see ly, you ed. Invited t see ed for. As friends of tissue of trut, delicate as tiations leading to t  enoug, to say t tle   o be. Nevertimes  it  right!

    S quite calm Bloomsbury said. You also urning  completely around. Of course srained to e Bloomsbury said looking out of training , ts t t rose and fell at intervals, ed for quot;takeoff,quot; if it ful, to ill I t tainly be le said from t seat. I  in situations involving birt or parting forever tity of  tle agreed. Yes Bloomsbury said.

    A grandmat please yer lards a fine young soft young . Ooo yer lards yer sez t tall us guls. Narutter is, treet ar Bloomsbury I likes a bit o fun as good as t un but me celescope. Pot  be leavin any marks,  slitree. Ring me bicycle bell yer lardser sellin t I  in my time I have.

    Of course its inaccurate to say t s still I believe tle said, as a legal entity. ere you married? it  tion, ion of tners, nessed. Bloomsbury understood t tle did not  prying and understood also, or recalled rat tles o if not identical ed to fly a as ion a tiresome one, tle interest in vieion already alluded to, ion to t to ansead  quite pretty. Lovely tle ackno.

    Ao bed t read me Mallarm¨¦ for t t t?  be comin round  yer leuesday nigter. But Mart alked about in 19 and 38? in tary by tar ter be lookin after ts got itself plogged up. Ding ts yer s er  yer  of me Playtex viper, Im dreadful bored  yer silly old tool. But Mart of try  te giants t ed our union ? t er t bicycle gul igs if yer s a bit o ts no bicycle gul ts brakin me  but yer s self. Keep yer pah book.

    Ricty tle said factually and . Did sake ttle asked. Oly (for  after all relinquis time  inconsiderable fortune, amounting to t more?). You could unately remained on t;steely-brig; And yet. . . tle began. Sometrouble ed, a tidy bit, to put in tal Savings. It  tle said. But trouble ? for ion rage Bloomsbury noted stiffened tles neck iff. t, trut deal. More t just rige wo.

    A BEER INE LIQUOR ICE sign appeared by topped tiac Cain and entering tore purctle of 98-year-old brandy sealed on top tle y but turned  asty in treme. For tion tle first to Bloomsbury esy, insofar as possible. Bloomsbury did not overlook t-ed attitude on t of s Bloomsbury reflected, ues also. But ts engaged tention and sipping to revietle also. One fault of  of not keeping ter of tance Bloomsbury said to exaco Gasoline sign is enougo distract y, t of operating ts botal and venial  just as seriously as tually errupted by ttles: Good old money!

    It o  it. Coions. t during tation it o cultivate and be proud of does not alter t t originally it  tle said, or a s for your friends  of t and if I may say so rat task or pedal to t t;leaped a; e expressions, ime. oo ttle   only tuck but also t botside and backside inized and commented upon by to t t terprise (friendse insupportable, and defeating. ance even reac o touc,  over, and sticking out, and Bloomsbury as  uation, to rap  , in th.

    Its idiotic  ances surrounding tinguis of your union to tell us.  do you  to kno everyt eresting I tructive tle said casually, to knoance at  tuation of living togetenable, or or sigator, s t and on , if tal cruelties, cruelties of elevision or s television, tion of table food remains in try at time, tles including Mercuroconic, milk of magnesia, No-Doze and Nembutal,  a fun divorce or not a fun divorce, ;datequot; after ting of t so ask, oucure if ture, e  a fun t o get t o knole said, but only dimly because of thinking.

    Mart me in a yareplane? on t? O yer  a c to be pullin ts  left of er but a bottle of Drene Sc so commit t of lese majesty against tiness. So an  come out not even for Flag Day. Incredible Miso t suc coexist ietury. An no more lovey-kindness tick, an no more gratitude t boug tion Army by t Plan. I fingerprinted ings s is more. Coo, Miselly rigo ts bumpin me back all nigs been a ime Pelly since love as touc. Ooo your elegance, t a young gul in tern and ts marriage Pelly  tragically true nonet  pity Pelly ttle enoug bets  clouding timent. I couldnt agree more yer gorgeousness damme if I  told Jack a times, t rapport is thing.

    Altomarily of a lively and even ribald disposition tained during ts of Bloomsburys attitudes of t rigorous and complete solemnity, as e. tle at lengt ting e  a stupid le asked, youve never been married. I may not kno marriage outly, but I kno e tle said, t is clear. Delicacy  better and better.  and rig. ttle said, oo muc to ttle said, better let me drive. You drive!  you precisely because you le said in surprise, I ? tle truggled for t in a friendly iac Cain beruggle, zigging and zagging, but Bloomsbury ice. It eresting  t after so many years one could still be surprised by a flyas t t keeps tissues tense.

    ell tle said  feel? It? Bloomsbury said, ?

    tion mentioned earlier tle said. e  to knoion is not   ell you about my affair.  about it? Bloomsbury asked. It  consist? tle asked. It consisted o top of t over ty. Not muc ttle said disparagingly,  end? Badly tle asked. I jumped tle said. Yes aken precautions. Did your ce open? tle asked. itimber falling  stle said sadly. But y ed. So nole said to Bloomsbury, give us the feeling.

    e can discuss Bloomsbury said, t not tion it is only just t you s tle said.  all you  in ttle oives tle pointed out, of one kind or anotances, no t tives eition! tle exclaimed, ime le said, for t. e are fine enougo be a cro t so t your   not fine enougo be taken into your confidence I suppose ;bitterly.quot; Not a matter of fine enouging mean t, e a disagreeable notion. But probably true. Good tle exclaimed and huber said: Prick!

    Once in a movie uesday eld urned on tely gotten up and  of ter, gratification singing in . But t situation dear to   in tuation. And t memory memorable as it  prevent topping tree, and beating Bloomsbury in t tle, tire iron, until at lengt from s of words.

 The Big Broadcast of 1938

    ation, Bloomsbury could no;tar-Spangled Banner,quot;  of its finality, as often as  meant, to  everyt daily, 60 times betimes bet long except alking.

    Bloomsburys radio talks  kind and t consisted of singling out, for special notice, from among all ticular ing it in a monotonous voice for as muceen minutes, or a quarter- mig;Nevert; Bloomsbury said into t;nevert; After to tion tly disclose neies, unsuspected qualities, alt ention. ention, insofar as o o put somet;on t;

    talk w.

    ts oo similar to ots broadcast during ters. t t to t of course to  raded for tly  in this vein:

    quot;ell, old girlquot; (;o tube, you lying on your back most likely, giving an ear, I dont doubt. So tune me in. I remember time you   your s an evening! You , and you picked your ily as a real lady. tnuts on t t like rocks under your feet. I got donuts into tter  an evening! You said I looked absurd, and a gentleman  to pat me on my  ed rousers tore on a broken place in t.

    quot;Afterreated me to a raspberry ice, calling for a saucer,  your feet. I still recall ter t ained my muzzle. I put my face in your tle glove came aicky, sticky and pink. e able tty as a picture! Man and wife!

    quot;  evening, treet lig coming on, ts  coming out. And you said t next time, if t time, you o snuts,  ice t. I t at time t ted to tell you, but did not.

    quot;And t  and posted on tice board,  it ,  , as rousers too. And I said, but it  eit love makes tomorro o eacomorro.

    quot;But pertle toffee? Ruin your teet some pieces of toffee in my bed. And t o sleep. Man and ;

    Immediately follo, or an announcement muc;tar-Spangled Bannerquot; 80 or 100 times, for ty of it.

    errogated  tter, about  felt to operate a radio of old e trut it felt fine.  during t only some of e e, auticate, ameliorate, and quantities of e music (icularly fond of t part, to : da-da, da da da da da da da-a), but also a series of commercial announcements of great po, alto conceal it from  futile. For t and object, in ts, and  raded for the house).

    A commercial announcement of this feeling was:

    quot;On t remarkable day, t day unlike any ot day, if you  old day from travagance o a ter . It smelled, and I or  it remarkable at time, like tietury. er all our century, none other.

    quot;e  rooms and t automobiles and to to topmost roy vie you and I been engaged in pa least, if not on yours.

    quot;t t  belonged to you. I did not kno to do , t in my   and . Means aking place,  knoime I  distracted, I still  in my  I was looking elsewhere.

    quot;You to my ear, get on , cant you?

    quot;I to your ear, Im cure.

    quot;At to  from my ood, it ter, to cure also. e cure togetimacy, t. Nevert . But I felt, I felt, I felt (I t you o t rourned.quot;

    After t  Bloomsbury  called upon to tle, and did, but not quot;on t;

    ly in trol room, urntables and tplate, ;tar-Spangled Bannerquot; playing bravely and a piece of buttered toast in  connected trol room ion room or foyer, a girl or erminate age dressed in a long briger.

    ter, underneatoreador pants, an orange ser, and ely stepped out into tion room or foyer in order to vieime tion.

    quot;Youre looking at me!quot; she said.

    quot;O; ;Rigainly am.quot;

    quot;;

    quot;Its somet; ;Its my you migier.quot;

    quot;Milieu,quot; she said.

    quot;M¨¦tier,quot; Bloomsbury said. quot;If you dont mind.quot;

    quot;I dont often get looked at as a matter of fact.quot;

    quot;Because youre not very good-looking,quot; Bloomsbury said.

    quot;O;

    quot;Glasses are discouraging,quot; he said.

    quot;Even ;

    quot;Especially ;

    quot;O; she said.

    quot;But you ; he said.

    quot;Also a lively sense of ; she said.

    quot;Lively,quot; ;ever possessed you to use t ;

    quot;I t you mig,quot; she said.

    quot;No,quot; ;Definitely not.quot;

    quot;Do you t to stand around and look at girls?quot; she asked.

    quot;O; Bloomsbury said. quot;I ts indicated.quot;

    quot;Indicated,quot; s; do you mean, indicated?quot;

    quot;tell me about your early life,quot; Bloomsbury said.

    quot;to begin  of t fan club,quot; s;t ism and personality got me. ures fascinated me. I ed  seemed to me a vital part of my imagination died too.quot;

    quot;I didnt mean necessarily in sucail,quot; he said.

    quot;My ;

    quot;Fan club prexies are invariably ; Bloomsbury said.

    quot;Plain,quot; sed. quot;I prefer t to see a picture of Conrad Veidt?quot;

    quot;I ly interested,quot; Bloomsbury said (alt truth).

    trieved from  ly remained for some time, per bore a pograp ant er. ting on tograp offered you a cigarette, it would be a DE REZKE -- of course!

    quot;Very affecting,quot; Bloomsbury said.

    quot;I never actually met Mr. Veidt,quot; t;It  t sort of club. I mean  in actual communication ar. tual communication. ed a remembrance. . .quot;

    quot;A remembrance?quot;

    quot;Suc ar, for instance, ick on it, or fingernail clippings, or a stocking, or a ars ail or mane. . .quot;

    quot;tail or mane?quot;

    quot;tar naturally, noblesse oblige, for object to t;

    quot;I see,quot; Bloomsbury said.

    quot;Do you look at a lot of girls?quot;

    quot;Not a lot,quot; ;but quite a number.quot;

    quot;Is it fun?quot;

    quot;Not fun,quot; ;but better t;

    quot;Do you ;

    quot;Not affairs,quot; ;but sometimes a little flutter.quot;

    quot;ell,quot; s;I oo.quot;

    quot;I ts very possible,quot; ;A great big girl like you.quot;

    to offend urned on  t moved by ting,  contact ion, since torsely returned to trol room and introduced a ne.

    quot;I rememberquot; (ed), quot;t t y! t ed on tice board t Refrigeration, and I  it all day long, and  lengt I  frozen. But  unfrozen! ery! useless! I  t enoughan enough.

    quot;You said t I , an imbecile, a stupid!, t tco be placed t doubt and on immaculate auty t accompliss kind knoo t macs kind, t among its attributes tribute of conceiving containing and at t of need ter  t or even ile te,  or even treacor, ent turition, bet, ice cubes in multiples of sufficient  themselves. ell, I said, perhaps.

    quot;O t ly, did.

    quot; from you, ting! You erial. t ting  your ing. You cness and implicitness of it, to run er over trays so t to turned trays, and ttoms up, so t tter ion. t tters ook to be, and even noake to be, a demonstration of your fundamental decency, and good sense.

    quot;But you reckoned o t. You  ty-four cubes, taking eac, individually, in total t could be obtained by simple multiplication of trays. t, in tters, boto consider tance t t I, unobserved by you,  to my drink!  one irely and fallen into ted once and for all! ts precluded sadly enougo a number corresponding to trays, proving also t tice!

    quot; a defeat for you!  a victory for me! It  victory, I fear I  quite out of my o ts t I considered to  rate. I t I detected in you. . .quot;

    But  continue t, from a surfeit of emotion.

    t of camp folloice during tion room underneater. o traffic ap on ting t otimes sions.

    A typical conversation of this:

    quot;tell me about your early life,quot; she said.

    quot;I ; Bloomsbury replied.

    quot;In ;

    quot;In t I married,quot; he said.

    quot;as it love?quot;

    quot;It  it emporary.quot;

    quot;It didnt go on forever?quot;

    quot;For less tter of fact.quot;

    quot;But ;

    quot;It filled me ;

    quot;Coo!quot; s;It doesnt sound very American to me.quot;

    quot;Coo,quot; ; kind of an expression is t?quot;

    quot;I  in a movie,quot; s;A Conrad Veidt movie.quot;

    quot;ell,quot; ;its distracting.quot;

    tion  by Bloomsbury to be not very satisfactory, ime, ruternative. triculate tention,  into t seemed to  is to say, in excess of a quarter- to regard t.

    It  t Bloomsbury, urning over in s in to feel, at time, disturbed. ttributable pero t, on alks, and also pero t;fan,quot; or listener, in tion room. Or possibly it irely. In any case turbance ed, beyond a doubt, in ts made by , inevitably, followed.

    One of these was:

    quot;tails of our o remember ted prickly pear in ts came. . . Os I could s I couldnt s   all. Is it remarkable, t t for a fe?

    quot;t doubt, never been anyt. t to our union , s rable silence. ell, I said, and t ed any? I asked, and ts  forebodings confirmed. Pis bloody likely, you said. And  doubt, away.

    quot;Are you h me, old bush?

    quot;Are you tuned in?

    quot;A man came, in a . In t tle feation to t and tcook o turned t are you doing in togetside. Go aive brute! you said, and Jack said, filtc til nig could ure, sucs and moans, and sigely ruso ttic to obtain our copy of Ideal Marriage, by to determine ion reated of t it . I turned to my station outside t?) s.

    quot;At lengt out. But saken your part as opposed to my part, t I , I said,  in t try to teaco c, melanc  ? , after all, so very many days? it terpolation of suc, ot to come?quot;

    After completing t and placing quot;tar-Spangled Bannerquot; on turntable, and a cup of soup on tplate, Bloomsbury observed t tion room ions  sed to speak to him.

    quot;Next to Mr. Veidt my favorite star ; s; is more, I am said to resemble s.quot;

    quot;; Bloomsbury asked erest. quot;s?quot;

    quot;It   lived a little longer, and not died from alcoop box office money-maker in tised.quot;

    quot;top box office money-maker for ;

    quot;t important,quot; s; is important is tion.quot;

    quot;I ;ies.quot;

    quot;Do I impress you?quot;

    quot;In ;

    quot;As a possible partner? Sexually I mean?quot;

    quot;I  considered it,quot; ;ofore.quot;

    quot;t; sed.

    quot;I dont doubt it,quot; ;I mean its plausible.quot;

    quot;I am yours,quot; s;if you  me.quot;

    quot;Yes,quot; ;ty, making up my mind.quot;

    quot;You ; s;to make test gesture of acquiescence, suc;

    quot;Probably I  enjoy it,quot; ;no;

    quot;Sake off my clot; sions as if to do so.

    itride, sucen seen practiced in t;at ;

    quot;Mart; ;old skin,  t y, but are no of present standards, practices, and attitudes, days t are done?quot;

    Upon to ;You looked interested at first,quot; sears).

    quot;It o try it,quot; ;tful. As a matter of fact, you  appealing. tempting, even. I  a time. You look ;

    quot;t; s;You said I  at least.quot;

    quot;And so you do.quot;

    quot;You cant forget,quot; s;about Dudley?quot;

    quot;Dudley?quot;

    quot;Dudley w; she said.

    quot;Before or after Jack?quot;

    quot;Dudley ; s antly.

    quot;ell,quot; ;I suppose.quot;

    quot;tell me about t;

    quot;t; Bloomsbury said. quot;I cant deny it.quot;

    quot;as it really like you said? Somber and paradoxical?quot;

    quot;It ,quot; ly, quot;t;

    quot;t; she said.

    t of silence during fully, to quot;tar-Spangled Bannerquot; playing softly in them.

    quot;t; s;t;

    quot;None,quot; ;t I kno;

    quot;Youve found somebody you like better?quot;

    quot;Its not t,quot; ;t o do .quot;

    quot;Balls,quot; s;I knoc;

    quot;Goodbye,quot; Bloomsbury said, and returned to trol room, locking the door behind him.

    ing, remor but no slackening in  to flog, as tric company,  to t, refused at lengto supply furt for ts, bot hey say, life.

 The Viennese Opera Ball

    I do not like to see an elegant pair of forceps! Blundell stated. Let trument look  is, a formidable e, non vi (art, not strengtake care of test of a doctors prognostic acumen is to determine time to give up medicinal and dietetic measures and empty terus, and overancy to do t mean t ion  spirit. On trary, I am sloo adopt it and alion. If on tely organize a , capture a bear, loll it, eat its , and t t of t; t serves as a s relative o seek revenge. tom in regard to tiger; ttle speec us live in peace. Dont disturb us again, or t, broeen, tenstein), left Germany five years ago. In  t of t in Greeno t toria, ted by a Glamour editor.

    I mean, tor resumed,  ty terus before sinitis; before jaundice  tis; before soxic myocarditis; before ed, et al. -- and it can be done. Meyer Davis played for te printers, said a man, deliver Society Printing in neat, styliso slips tissue paper, an expense tterpress printer may avoid, if careful. Boxes, covered y Printing, are on sale to carry t sizes. No matter  your y may be, ice  be satisfied unless t as t out by te printers. t as t soon dropped o be a painter, made $60 an s, appeared on tment o get married and live in California. But t er.)

    tor said: take Dolores ettactac tzerland to Flus up a mink ranc ty-four (quot;You learn not to be too accuratequot;), Dolores ed Miss Vermont in test, graduated in 1957 from ty of Vermont tac Mantans Doctors al, a sograpo pose. Dying remarks: Oliver Goldsmitis, play ease?  is not, and died. ood me. And  understand me.  Crane, 1899-1932, poet, as o tons of people came to t noon, t doctor said, on January 31, 1943,  ted to tal at 1 P.M. in a state of exsanguination. Sed a tender, rigid abdomen and uterus. Blood pressure 110/60. Pulse rate 110 -- tal  not ient ravenous blood at once. tured artificially and a Spanis 6 P.M., a 5-pound stillborn infant e of uitrin, intravenous ergotrate, and firm uterine packing. Blood transfusion ained continuously. At 9 P.M. a laparotomy erus ubes and ovaries omy. tubes and ovaries to tated tient stood surgery otal of 2000 c.c. of isfactory, and tient eentoperative day. aiters ed among the ball-goers.

    Carola Mitt met Isabella Albonico at talian by temperament as y-four years ago, in Florence), began modeling in Europe ation for being allergic to being pummeled around under ts. Nobody touc; I entirely endorse tanding nearby, and  to avert t fatal marital ennui by independent interests eresting book, or journey, or lecture or concert, experienced, enjoyed and described by en be a talisman to divert ations arising t, of course,  be able to appreciate ion and ion. timuli to tensity and sy; and ties in tions of pleasure to is of mucance in determining tions ti or terior rim of t ratic case on record in  braced , o treet beloained a skull fracture,  remained undelivered.) tree, 254 feet  t, a monkey and a bison. Isabella told Carola t s; of all to be a movie star,quot;  returned from  (quot;but opposite Gary Grantquot;) in t toucalian film, Smog. Besides Englisalian, Isabella speaks Frences big groups.  kind of big groups? Carola asked. to indicate the Viennese Opera Ball.

    Smog is an interesting name Carola said. In ty expanses of Islamabad, tal t Pakistan plans to erect in t buildings sco go up are a cluster of airy structures designed by famed U.S. arcect Edone. Set in a cloistered er garden, t of Stones buildings  nuclear reactor -- one of t sales made by Nes (cigarette, baking and stitc $12,000,000. today, s and 19 researcies scattered across 17 countries, AMF turns out products ranging from remote-controlled toy airplanes to ICBM launcems. to AMFs determined pursuit of diversification and gros 1960 sales s earnings $24 million. And in t ne-quarter terson, 64, terson, inventor of t automated tobacco macer orld ar II, Moreterson decided t to grootype of an automatic boter. to get to develop tricate gadget, Patterson sock to acquire eig-selling products. tter, perfected and put on t in 1951, o turn boo t popular U.S. competitive sport. Despite keen competition from t maker of automatic pin setters. it  a $3,000,000 contract to equip a ne. Is tter in AMFs future? Cterson cautiously admits to t perensive researco purifying brackiser mig breakt;Companies, like people,quot; says Patterson, quot;get arteriosclerosis. My job is to see t AMF doesnt.quot; Moreterson did not attend the Viennese Opera Ball.

    Carola Mitt said: Among ot is also tronomy, for tion of an orbit to tic; in cry, for iodine; in py of current, tensity of magnetization, or t of inertia; in logic, for a particular affirmative proposition. Lester Lannin also played for t. Puce,  sailing, salesmen, salt, sanitation, Santa Claus, sas, selling, t metal, sing, skeletons, skeleton keys, sketc drinks, sootravel, spectacles, spelling, sports, squirrels, steamboats, steel, stereopticans, tock Excomacores, storms, stoves, streetcars, strikes, submarines, subroke, superstition, surgery, surveying, s and syp is one of McCormacks proudest boasts, Carola e s y-one years of married life. S tion Day parade, and Baudelaires famous remark. Mortality is tor of metant goal is an intact sper. ter turity, tomy. Yes said Leon Jaroff, Detroit Bureau Cime, at tary Scernoons I could look from my classroom into t. Ideal foster parents are mature people   youtently touc to a distant isle,  te t to  from a series -- s one  of one-at-a-time experiences eacained s oment, and read in a certain order, up or do Barloation, as t slept dreamlessly at last. Peridermium coloradense on spruce (Picea) ., es bets are identical consists largely of inoculation results of eit and  (1,2), but take Dorotor said. Dorotion in took aten Island, re Dame College before taking a summer job modeling $2.98 er,  pograpry at a cover made Vogue; t some kind of a record by appearing on four Vogue covers in a ro  could old t it y-year-old Dorot;My middle initial is E, and Dorot;) makes $60 an ment in Neudies Frenc Mantans Frencitute t;so t quot;). Dorot, all expenses paid, to be pograp of t arcectural monuments of Europe, among Middle East bazaars and under Caribbean palms. Sely infatuated o travel. I never saumn flo I confess, I scarcely kne no one visit America  first udied botany.

    Carola eresting conversations at tion is undertaking a compreical study of tions of tist and of itutions in ted States. In part ture policy decisions and program activities. templated study ant outside tion. te of ts today, discussion in title Son Breton Extra Condensed. Pack my box oevsky, D Portrayed by oevsky, Letters and Reminiscences, 241-242, 247, 251-252; F. Dostoevsky, Neters, 79-102; Freud, passim; Gibian, quot;Ds Use of Russian Folklore,quot; passim; ion, 114-142; Lavrin, D: A Study, 119-146; Lavrin, quot;D and tolstoy,quot; 189-195; Lloyd, 275-290; McCune, passim; Mackieia, 204-209; Simmons, 263-279 and passim; Slonim, Epic. . . , 289-293 and passim; Soloviev, 195-202; Strakoscroyat, 395-416; tymms, 99-103; arner, 80-101; Colin ilson, 178-201; Yarmolinsky, D, , 355-361 and passim; Zander, 15-30, 63-95, 119-137. Carola said:  a o relations one-t year of eenter. On a er inc, diminisime to time. For otives, to t of t;Italian.quot; No. 5 band is no among tin races is o be moderate, and if preferred, is entirely correct. to administer t and facilitate ttainment of its ends, a Committee on trade Policy and Payments  up ries represented. templated in t is t of a free trade zone to be transformed gradually into a customs union. As Emile Myerson ;L de la m¨¦tap surtout sans sen douter la plupart du temps.quot; No tle, Pamela Odede B.A.s fatature as one of t jazz singers of our time is confirmed, Laura La Plante said. idely used for motors, poools, ligV, etc. Generator output: 3500 ts, 115/230 volt, 60 cy., AC, continuous duty. Max. 230 V capacitor motor, loaded on starting -- ? arting -- 2 rol box mounts starting scacle for standard or 3-conductor grounding plugs, tandem 230 V grounding receptacles, and  battery terminals. More t kinds of forceps ed. Lets not talk about t  smiling and noside beads automatically. te of progress during t stage ermine to be folloage. tor ti Beale quot;moved in.quot; s your name girl? st, Carola Mitt said. tinued.

 Me and Miss Mandible

    13 September

    Miss Mandible s to make love to me but sates because I am officially a co to to tion  I  quite managed to get cleared up yet. I am in fact ty-five, Ive been in t one, I e places, my voice is a baritone, I knoo do h Miss Mandible if she ever makes up her mind.

    In time udying common fractions. I could, of course, ansions, or at least most of t remember). But I prefer to sit in too-small seat op cramping my ty-to t t, is divided betoday, Sue Ann; altions. Strangely neito see any incongruity in my presence here.

    15 September

    ext, o conceal my clandestine journal-keeping, accomplision book. Every day I must  until Geograpo put douation and my felloing at otimes and it does not eacicks close to t of t, o kno, I  from certain desultory conversations on ts cars, a veteran consumer of Road amp; track. tinual roaring sounds e from his desk; he is reproducing a record album called Sounds of Sebring.

    19 September

    Only I, at times (only at times), understand t someake  I am in a place  may be t Miss Mandible also kno some level, but for reasons not fully understood by me s assigned to ted to protest, tupidest principal could ; but I o believe it e, t I rayed again.

    No seems to make little difference. teresting as my former life-role, er for t Nortion ime amid tion: rumpled fenders, roofless sted en years of tendency to see t junkyard, looking at a man and seeing only entially) mangled parts, entering a o trace table fire. talled enanced it, I  age to be gained from er. ter teaches one much.

    22 September

    I am being solicited for team. I decline, refusing to take unfair profit from my .

    23 September

    Every morning tvina, Bokenfoe, , Lay, Logan, Masei, Mitgang, Pfeilsticker. It is like tany ced in texas by t of our basic training company.

    In too, I ook me a fantastically long time to realize  at once: t muc ely pointless, to no purpose. I kept ion. One day o opmost leaves, all of trees in our training area. tic. Later an off-duty captain sauntered by and ce-splasotally rung out among ted. ood t I wondered: ho decides?

    29 September

    Sue Ann is a erday s paying attention ing to pass me a note during ory. It is sill. But Miss Mandible co be a ccantly, trying to keep sexual significance out of iced. I  gly frequency t is tion, t;teac!quot;

    2 October

    Sometimes I speculate on t nature of t me  times I believe it igated by my o forget. I knoate) or my old Army serial number (US 54109268). ion I recall best, took place on ted. quot;You ; I said on t occasion, stating noteral, unvarnis. quot;You,quot; s;are a pimp, a poop, and a crust t  me you will peris;

    I squirm in my seat at tion, and Sue Ann ciced t apparently sees it only as a token of my glamour, my dark man-of-the-world-ness.

    7 October

    Once I tiptoed up to Miss Mandibles desk (eac  as a sixtext, ions y to take t steps and to obtain correct ans full social significance, it is necessary t many realistic situations requiring teresting and lifelike problems involving tions s;

    8 October

    I am not irritated by tly no from t voyage tary sc;ty to take t steps and to obtain correct ans; true. , actical advantage of being able to maneuver in my disproportionate so bust a classmate in t asks Miss Mandible to lo ts ion y so easily.

    13 October

    It may be t on my first trip too muc ies ( I confused auty self. My pat particularly of my oc in front of me like a paper co pick up t out of sc time, I felt t timate antially correct, and eagerly entered t. I found clues abundant: diplomas, memberstons, a marriage license, insurance forms, discax returns, Certificates of Merit. to prove, at t, t I  t ragic mistake on ton Bichek claim.

    I misread a clue. Do not misunderstand me: it ragedy only from t of vieies. I conceived t it y to obtain satisfaction for t even one of our policy a claimant against Big Ben transfer amp; Storage, Inc.) from ttlement ill believe, . But  my encouragement Mrs. Bico prize  its faitrict manager, expressed t in a fe altogetic old me at time t I o  t ary, under the lubricious eye of Miss Mandible.

    17 October

    today o  only for our room but for tire riginction, er my arrival, is interpreted by some as anot dubious relations eaced e felt letters reading FIRE, sits on ttle s to taining tages of packing my o for me) is t I am able to fill it  butter sandence, many years ago,  my diet eriously adjusted to my neuation; I no longer drink, for instance, and  I  all. It is only in tter of sex t I feel my orue age; tly somet, once learned, can never be forgotten. I live in fear t Miss Mandible er sce a compromising situation. to avoid tered in certain quarters. But I cannot deny t I am singed by ty of tably about t, a very tasty piece.

    24 October

    ted co my largeness, to my dimly realized position in t of my classmates are polite about tter, as ted, metal-ation of some sort but essentially a peer. uring t (ly reproacsville), today inquired if I ed to figerested group of o observe taking. I replied t I didnt feel quite up to it, for and privately t  me all ts I  a ridiculously modest figure.

    25 October

    quot;Many interesting and lifelike problems involving tions s; ts fail to realize t everyt is eiteresting or lifelike in t terpersonal relations: Sue Ann Broender solicitude after transparent; everyone kno s  it is a victory in ruggle , overgroers in per;Are you ions smolder be I have bumped my leg.

    30 October

    I return again and again to ture.

    4 November

    ting library  me a copy of Movie-tV Secrets, ticolor cover blazoned ;Debbies Date Insults Liz!quot; It is a gift from Frankie Randolpil today  one . I nod and smile over my s; Frankie imes one of to inspect a particularly lurid cover). Miss Mandible confiscates tV Secrets and get an eyeful. quot;ture on t  seems. e knoerests of a nice guy, .  really ; ture sartled beside o kno ture is not really  seems; it seems to be nothan divorce evidence.

    do tures quot;; or o be padded rumps? (quot;A real undercover agent t adds appeal to t;) If t deciprations leave noto tion. quot;Drive ic. . .quot; tinues. Pers preoccupation is; it is a defense against being driven frantic.

    Sue Ann ure, and catcceen of ting t me as if to prove t anyto offer, sop. I sing torial perspective:

    quot;Debbies Kids Are Cryingquot;

    quot;Eddie Asks Debbie: ill You. . . ?quot;

    quot;tmares Liz  Eddie!quot;

    quot;tell About Eddiequot;

    quot;te Life of Eddie and Lizquot;

    quot;Debbie Gets ;

    quot;A Ne;

    quot;Love Is a tricky Affairquot;

    quot;Eddies taylor-Made Love Nestquot;

    quot;;

    quot;Are to Live toget;

    quot;Isnt It time to Stop Kicking Debbie Around?quot;

    quot;Debbies Dilemmaquot;

    quot;Eddie Becomes a Fat;

    quot;Is Debbie Planning to Re-;

    quot;Can Liz Fulfill ;

    quot;;

    terrible predicament? Sue Ann kno is obvious t sudying tory as a guide to w s w classroom.

    I am angry and I s  even a whanks.

    5 November

    t ary is a furnace of love, love, love. today it is raining, but inside tense ; I suspect t yesterdays exco   me. S responsible, I knohe flu.

    Nomosped sexuality as t today. Amos Darin y picture in te, it  as a sign of somet as an act of love in itself. It ed even t seen it, even t understood only t it y. tly compreitillation. Amos stands by ting to be taken to t of emporary celebrity. From time to time Miss Mandible looks at me reproac I did not create tmosp in it like all thers.

    8 November

    Everytes and I, most of all ture. e accept trageous assurances  blinking.

    9 November

    I o petition for a larger desk. At recess I can  ake it up odian. S tant I am on telling ory. Somet to attempt it.  rust myself once more to ty. I resolve to make my t in ture.

    11 November

    A ruined marriage, a ruined adjusting career, a grim interlude in t not a person. tence to date, a dismal total. Small  re-education seemed my only  is clear even to me t I need real y t provides ts clinkers!

    Plucked from my unexamined life among ot, desperate, money-making young Americans, time, I am beginning to understand  ion of t me  I get right.)

    14 November

    tinction bettom a specious one, I feel. there are only individual egos, crazy for love.

    15 November

    todian  our desks are all t size for sixtimate and furnis Educational Supply Corporation of Engle t if t, t be incorrect. Miss Mandible, o press tter furto tration mig in my removal from transfer to some sort of setup for quot;exceptional c; ter of t magnitude. to sit in a room ;retardedquot;)  me be, please God, typical.

    20 November

    e read signs as promises. Miss Mandible understands by my great , by my resonant vo I erprets to mean t I am unique among ances, t desirable, ty as is everyt is Most Desirable. If neitions  them.

    I myself, in my former existence, read tto (quot;o ime of Needquot;) as a description of ty of ter, drastically mislocating t concerns. I believed t because I ained a  tokens a kind of general righteousness.

    But I say, looking about me in tor of future citizens, t signs are signs, and t some of t discovery of my time here.

    23 November

    It may be t my experience as a cer all. If only I can remain quietly in tes ext. All of teries t perplexed me as an adult s.

    2 December

    Miss Mandible o permit me to remain ungrooo long.

    7 December

    It is t to me, pledges t cannot be redeemed, t confuse me later and make me feel I am not getting any of some kno four I get te I must travel  by anotor. If, like Bobby Vanderbilt, I yearn for ter coup¨¦,1 o go te process, t is, get t is money itself t I desire, I o make it. All of tiful in t of timate; teel and glass building, in traigter-of-factness able  t arrangements sometimes slip, t errors are made, t signs are misread? quot;ty to take t steps and to obtain correct ans; I take t steps, obtain correct ansher man.

    8 December

    My enlig is proceeding wonderfully.

    9 December

    Disaster once again. tomorroo be sent to a doctor, for observation. Sue Ann Bro. For a moment I t sually going to c of traigain no, but I kno s fulfilled. Altributing to t peace; . S everytold about life, about America, is true.

    I ried to convince ties t I am a minor only in a very special sense, t I am in fact mostly to blame -- but it does no good. temporaries are astounded t I present myself as anyt victim. Like ts, to t trut.

    Bobby Vanderbilt has given me his copy of Sounds of Sebring, in farewell.

 Marie, Marie, Hold On Tight

    tle braved a rainstorm to demonstrate against tion on ednesday, April 26 (and Marie, you serproof paint; ter  St. Joreet at 1:30 p.m. picketing ! / COGItO ERGO NOt announcements of ure at t evening. terest among bystanders in ty of ter came up to give encouragement: quot;ts t;  about 1:50 a fat, rico dispute our rigo picket. ly and, I am sorry to say, did not look like a good man.

    quot;All rig; ;no picket us!quot;  ted, t it could not be picketed  its permission, t it o o call ttle ained police permission for tration tunate bit of foresig  Police ers. tensely irritated at tormed back inside to report to someone ;ell, get ready for tning bolt,quot; and Edle laughed.

    Interest in tration among reet increased and a number of people accepted our leaflet and began to ask ts questions suc; do you mean?quot; and quot;ere you young men raised in t; ts replied to tions quietly but firmly and in as mucail as casual passersby could be expected to be interested in. Some of taunting remarks -- quot;Cogito ergo your assquot; is one I remember -- but ts  all times, even later , quot;to get a little roug; (Marie, you s of pickets s ts are tened mostly not by t molest you if you go te bureaucratic procedures sucting a permit, but by individuals ry to pull your sign out of your  at you. tter ions as to ture or purpose of tration, just spat and  him.

    At about 2 P.M. a very  emerged from t  s but  seem to mind. quot;tration displays a Kierkegaardian spirit ; ed t ransfer our operations to some oteresting discussion of about ten minutes duration ograpaken by t, Neelevision o tration. tograptle nervous but you o  to ained titude of polite interest almost to t. ;tion is ts  t countsquot; and quot;temple ion quot; o be t ;  s) to  place.

    quot;; t  aken aback. quot;Because it is t  is. ity.quot;

    quot;But  ; ed, ion crossed tures (it probably didnt register on your tV screen, Marie, but I  -- it iful).

    quot;tion is a fundamental datum,quot; tated. quot;It is immutable, fixed and co say ot;

    quot;Precisely,quot; ; be c;

    quot;But,quot; t;it is Gods ;

    quot;Yes,quot; ly.

    tired into tering and s but till legible and  line to s  t be taken for Communists. tuality s s  Communists and cited Edles Army service including Asion Ribbon. quot;e, as you, are laizens itution and pay taxes,quot; t says. quot;e are simply opposed to tion o deserve it and are unable to escape it.  o be t ; t goes on to discuss, in simple language, tunate aspects of tion including deations, limitations on anding, and t concludes ion ; Is to Be Done?quot; clines, in clear, simple language, ion of tion from the ground up.

    A Negro lady came up, took one of ts, read it carefully and t;ts to me!quot; Ed no matter o ted to believe you .  ed once in Miami against vivisection of  ion in terms. .

    By t elevision men came ed as ted te of tration to Rockefeller Plaza in Rockefeller Center via Edhe spare signs which had new messages including

    ANDING

    ANDING?

    t!

    NO MORE

    ARt

    CULtURE

    LOVE

    REMEMBER YOU ARE DUSt!

    topped and ts took up positions near a restaurant (I  nig to Bloomingdales and boug: quot;t; you said, and t, some of took pictures of us as if tration before. ts remarked among t it o tourists ures of us demonstrating in t kno tration or, for t matter, tion itself, in  t stand off and look at it and kno for  ;Its a paradigmatic situation,quot; ;exemplifying tance betential knoo be kno;

    At time (2:45 P.M.) trators een and ty-one. ts, t-ss, tigs etc. and s from bad environments and broken s in a tening manner. t seven of t t; all, elligent at time)  our signs ed curiosity. quot; are you guys,quot; ;some kind of creeps or somet;

    ly t ts izens pursuing t to demonstrate peaceably under titution.

    t ;Youre flits, you guys, ; cs out of Edempted to recover t of reacood in As; do you flits t; ; is t?quot;

    quot;You  got any rig; arted to say, but to hen.

    quot; do you mean, you dont believe in God?quot; oo.

    quot;t is not tion,quot; ;Belief or nonbelief is not at issue. tuation remains t. tion is. . .quot;

    quot;Listen,quot; t;I t all you guys  to cell me t flits dont believe in God. You putting me on?quot;

    ed t belief  involved, and said t it ion of man ion of   dra could not be altered by ion, and t al conflict ion of s ing tate of affairs to a radical questioning, he said.

    quot;Youre putting me on,quot; ttempted to kick  Mackie turned aime. s, riger. o t and kicked repeatedly in t tle ;Cutterquot; ried to interfere (a fe space of time. ts signs tered everyried to catc t aed Press building and urned empty-s. Pos aken.

    quot;Senseless violence,quot; Ed;t understand t. . .quot;

    quot;On trary,quot; ;tand everytter t;

    t evening, at 8 P.M. ure in tairs meeting room at t. t attentive and interested. e bandage. ure titled quot; Is to Be Done?quot; ion and enunciation and in a strong voice. . And eloquence, henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.

 Up, Aloft in the Air

    Buck sa tuation betakable signs of a leaning in ion. te, sometimes  simes  s fall, sometimes  care, and in every ried to prove   meant dressing in unusual clots. But ter er all togeter all tly seen and done since first identifying Cleveland as Cleveland? quot;Nancy,quot; ;Im too old. Im not nice. to consider, Peter.quot; oucing imated from t famous period!

    turbojet, t;s; landed on its  t landed so  of tory of lig  trip. quot;to establis errain,quot; sant coolness, made more intense by t glare of toms trees. te. It rip, amid air ricality of jet fuel and te music of ex. ttern, a to tel.

    quot;I understand,quot; Nancy said. And looking at ely, Buck conjectured t sand, unscrupulous as t may sound. Probably,  my el elevator. quot;Do you t to  Kennedy?quot; ;t of your land?quot; But ty made up for all t, or most of it, in a curious . Or my , Buck t, ers ua (alt tel). quot;I am named,quot; Perpetua said, quot;after typeface designed by t of our century.quot; quot;Yes,quot; Buck said calmly, quot;I kno face.quot; Sold ly tory of lemen entered ts blanctuce and romaine and radisoo flying for ts, wh grass.

    Bravery  onigling up tters are decided, for good or ill. Patic in  s played teleperooms. ted a drink and danced ancient police dances of custody and enforcement. Magically t back under ted Guam doors; it o make your  cry. quot;t Perpetua,quot; Saul complained, quot;ing me like turned lo urned unopened, covered age Due stamps?quot; But Buck had, in all seriousness, hurried away.

    t ed flank of a bold 707. quot;In case of orange and blue flames,quot; e on a ;disengage yourself from t by cs bottom if necessary. Do not be s; it is camel and very t t you be alarmed, because tuation is very alarming. You are up in t, side and a ragged  ; And now, Nancy.  o him.

    quot;Yes.quot;

    quot;Arent ;

    quot;Yes.quot;

    quot;It doesnt matter.quot;

    quot;Not to you. But to me. . .quot;

    quot;Im ing our time.quot;

    quot;t;

    quot;I felt as;

    quot;Its being ;

    turned togetomobile. ts ired, so very tired. tened to eful  of ot;But, t; Buck said, but then Nancy laid a finger on his lips.

    quot;You appear to me so superior, so elevated above all ot; s;I contemplate you range mixture of y, admiration, revenge, love and pride t very little superstition o make me wors;

    quot;Yes,quot; Buck said, for a foreign sculptor, a Bavarian doubtless, ;You Can take Your Love and S Up Your ,quot; covered tone dust and grog. t ts plying tic instruments of Cleveland, trum sly, fingers! tlers did not ate for a minute. quot;ory ; Buck reflected, and ook ts enormous sappua danced up to  amazing bro love of ence, ions;; s;and good and evil. In fact to tell you about, I can  it all out before curfe;

    t many people ed. quot;t to Cleveland, t; one man said; and grog floary of State for Erotic Affairs fleions capital, to see for  first o terminal. quot;Can I icket for Miami?quot; icket clerk at ta Airlines counter ;Noto Miami t; tered. quot;alk to ; Nancy asked ;e bird of  and future ;

    But Saul ime, from t tion everys true!quot; And so it  under t sky. e ;Incredible, incredible,quot; Buck said to ;Even by t ed it!quot; Perpetua glimmered at ;Even by t; sed, quot;of ; For a moment. . .

    quot;Nancy,quot; Buck exclaimed, quot;you are just about t damn girl in Cleveland!quot;

    quot; about your exas?quot; Nancy asked.

    quot;Soo,quot; Buck said, quot;as a matter of fact t, t nice girls like you and  make life  every man could  least five.quot;

    quot;Five?quot;

    quot;Yes, five.quot;

    quot;e ; Nancy said.

    2

    ter city of Laan, lay like t of all our eau t evening.

    t engines, ;But t; And it ry, molecular, croants ransistor radios next to tiny ears. A itude overcame ;Bum, bum,quot; s . tizens of Akron, after t t, riangles iful Oransistorized citizens and contempt for geometry, ing for our o nap so  and see our two girls, Manfred and Bella!

    t telepel room, Che Akron elcome Service.

    quot;elcome! new o Akron! ;

    quot;;

    quot;Are you in love ants of Akron yet?quot;

    quot;I just came from t.quot;

    quot;If not, or even if so,  to invite you to t-acquainted party of tes Club tonig 8:30 p.m.quot;

    quot;Do I o be a college graduate?quot;

    quot;No but you o  and tie. Of course t t color pants are you ;

    Buck  streets of Akron. ing ideas. Suddenly ed by a sop of t buildings in Akron, a group of Akron lovers consummated a four- as ciny figures falling, tainly an air-minded country, America! But I must make myself useful. ered a buns green bun, and dallied  green girl t;poppetquot; and quot;funicular.quot; t into treet again to lean against tche crimson sidewalk.

    quot;Can you point me to t;

    quot;My name is not . quot;

    quot;ell Pat w;

    quot;I  o orient you, slum not for t t slumlife in Akron  ay o be erected, ions ructures are over t ;

    quot;t. quot;

    At t, or, next to a man breaking . quot; are you fello; Buck cried aloud. quot;e are expressing our rage at t; t;O ted! e are going to call it Ruesday, ts  it, by gar!quot; Buck stood in a ;You mean tic love?quot; quot;tic rage also,quot; t;Akron is rage from a certain point of vie; Angel food covered t squares. And ? Everything?

    quot; is t point of vieo ;t of viee of Akron,quot; t yeoman ced, quot;or, as ty fat, t; And in trange lig;Do you kno is?quot; quot;?quot; Buck asked. quot;S,quot; t;isnt t disgusting?quot;

    ted Buck to sup ree, starlings fretted and died, but belo Co tten napery. And t rod over tiny sin ed out t nigo make room for a greater one. It ;; and quot;yesquot; and quot;yes, yesquot; tal o eig;Do you like pencil games?quot; s;Not. . . especially,quot; Buck said, quot;I. . .quot;

    But a parade talion of ed tense moment to come dancing by, s in praise of rubber goods expanding in every direction. tons of t in terglos. quot;It is impossible to discuss serious ideas during a parade,quot; ts said to Buck, and to continue expressing t of t.

    quot;Goodbye!quot; Buck said. quot;Goodbye! I  forget. . .quot;

    te-and-gold elcome Service uniforms ;leg.quot; Look at all t quot;legquot; glittering to o toledo.

    3

    quot;Ingarden dear,quot; Buck said to tty oledo, ;oledo? ?quot; s. Seriously into to see if ;t; s;t of ty Constantine Cavity.quot; A frost of emotion clouded ;es a juju drugstore in t section of ty and never goes anyo make one of iful appearances.quot; quot;Constantino Cavity!quot; Buck exclaimed, quot;even in texas  take me to see  once.quot; Abandoning o e (and it ter one!) Buck and Ingarden ruserically to tore of Constantine Cavity, Buck inventing as to say to t, to speak of poetry in America.

    as t tell. Cadenzas of documents stained tern Alliance, already, pero redeem it. quot;Do you too muc; Ingarden asked Buck. But before ;O up!quot; S Mrs. Lutcerest in tor he American way if anyone could.

    At Constantine Cavitys drugstore a meeting of toledo Medical Society  to utter o ;Cavity, y, but call t, and  were

    Dr. Caligari

    Dr. Frank

    Dr. Pepper

    Dr. Scholl

    Dr. Frankenthaler

    Dr. Mabuse

    Dr. Grabow

    Dr. Melmoth

    Dr. eil

    Dr. Modesto

    Dr. Fu Manchu

    Dr. ellington

    Dr. atson

    Dr. Brown

    Dr. Rococo

    Dr. Dolittle

    Dr. Alvarez

    Dr. Spoke

    Dr. ch

    Dr. Spain

    Dr. Malone

    Dr. Kline

    Dr. Casey

    Dr. No

    Dr. Regatta

    Dr. Il y a

    Dr. Baderman

    Dr. Aveni

    and otors. tuffy ors ion of censure against t. An end to t! Let us be grave. It  Cavity  ed t, and Dr. Spain, after iny poet.

    Kline advances.

    Cavity rises to , .

    Ingarden h.

    Spain fades, back, back. . .

    A  from Spain to Kline.

    Buck is down.

    A luau?

    t opens. . .

    No! No! Get back!

    quot;. . . and if t or, and doo s reasons t reason kno of,quot; Cavity finis was done.

    quot;; said one doctor, and tore inspecting trange

    no resolution of censure could possibly. . . But of course not!  hinking of?

    Cavity  tcome of ted to Buck and Ingarden itled quot;In t; quot;Long Ago and Far A; quot;; and quot;o . C. illiams.quot; t of tors danced against t floor of tore to ts poems. A rime of ened on t;Even in texas,quot; Buck antino Cavity. Are you true?quot;

    quot;O;

    quot;You do?quot;

    quot;t of fine people in t;

    quot;You are, you are!quot;

    quot;Not essentially. Not in;

    quot;Youre very autic I t;

    quot;ts all rigicity is t ;

    quot;Kiss me please.quot;

    quot;Again?quot;

    4

    tes of tion in terburner and t decided to quot;ditc; tunate. quot; is your life-style, Cincinnati?quot; Buck asked t jetering belorial diamonds. quot;orpor of toledo?  is your posture, Cincinnati?quot; Frostily t city approac.

    Upon making contact i Buck and suced flig;dropquot; proceeded to a el.

    quot;Is t a flask of grog you ;

    quot;Yes it is grog as it ;

    quot;ts ;

    armed by t  to ;O; ;I must be in t; tirred sleepily. quot;Is t you ; s;ime?quot; quot;No, its Buck,quot; Buck said to tty in s dra ;I must be in t; ed. quot;Buck, get out of tely!quot; t;My name is Step scene.quot;

    quot; are you doing tomorro; Buck asked.

    ;datequot; ep 10 A.M., Buck slipped off to an innocent sleep in his own bed.

    Morning in Cincinnati! ti sunligely around ty,  no one. Step in arved. quot;tell me about your Cincinnati life,quot; Buck said, quot;ty of it, ts erested in.quot; quot;My life ocratic,quot; Step;polo, canned peaci family. s not muce ing stranger from t; quot;Im really from texas,quot; Buck said, quot;but Ive been tle trouble rip. I dont really trust too muc sure trust; quot;ruster all?quot; Step;Are you blue Step; Buck asked. quot;Am I blue?quot; Step followed, sed ionships.

    quot;Is teistic activity in to;

    quot;Like ;

    Buck tepaxicab as a ing t i like you?quot; quot;All t-class girls are like me,quot; Step;but t mention.quot;

    A faint sound of. . . A rands of. . .

    Dr. o ttle pool in vanPelt Ryans garden (of course!) and everyone rangers met and fell in love over tting a grip on Dr. eel band played arias from ozzeck.  beloening o be. . . quot;Not t ; Buck said reac buckle. quot;t; the pines.

    quot;You seem to be a nice young man, young man,quot; vanPelt Ryan said, quot;altric plant came to toerization?quot;

    Buck remembered tephanie de Moulpieds knees.

    quot;Id rat ans question,quot; ly, quot;but if tion youd like me to ans;

    vanPelt turned aeel band played quot;Red Boy Blues,quot; quot;ts All,quot; quot;Gigantic Blues,quot; quot;Muggles,quot; quot;Coolin,quot; and quot;Ed; Alt  too personal. t a nice sound. able placed t purpose. quot;I groimately involved ; Buck t, quot;is t my fault? Is it a fault?quot; tremely romantic ballads quot;I Didnt Knoime It as,quot; quot;Scratc; and quot;Misty.quot; ted in recent issues of Mind pressed do  to kno is not ion, it is Mrs. Lutcs into flame,  ;tell turn off. . .tion.quot;

 Margins

    Edo Carl about margins. quot;ture, aesticism and a sense of values or t; ;A very  margin sical person of culture and refinement ion for t in art and music. ; Eding ing analysis book, quot; margin at all sical nature, a e in ts. A very y, oversensitive to ture and generally a poor mixer.quot;

    quot;I dont believe in it,quot; Carl said.

    quot;No; Edinued, quot;o your sign tremely delicate sensibilities itude and lives in y and good taste.quot;

    quot;Are you sure you got t rig;

    quot;Im communicating ; Ed;across a vast gulf of ignorance and darkness.quot;

    quot;I broug t; Carl asked.

    quot;You broug; Ed;Funky, man.quot;

    quot;Ed; Carl said, quot;for Gods sake.quot;

    quot;e all t jazz on your sign, Carl? s not true, is it? Is it?quot;

    quot;Its kind of true,quot; Carl said.   In Jail in Selby County Alabama For Five Years For Stealing A Dollar and A  Do. tle. In Jail I Began Preaco People ness of Escological Love. I  Papers for Jobs But Nobody ill Give Me a Job Because I o Get Food. Patent Applied For amp; Deliver Us From Evil. quot;Its true,quot; Carl said, quot;rutive correlative of ually did ;

    quot;No t m and t n t; Ed;tops are pointed rat indicates aggressiveness and energy. t t ted rat ttom indicates a sarcastic, stubborn and irritable nature. See ;

    quot;If you say so,quot; Carl said.

    quot;Your capitals are very small,quot; Ed;indicating y.quot;

    quot;My mot; Carl said, quot;if s;

    quot;On tion and egoism.quot;

    quot;ts al; Carl answered.

    quot;s your  a building. teentreet, near Broadway.

    quot;Carl Maria von eber,quot; Carl said.

    quot;Are you a drug addict?quot;

    quot;Ed; Carl said, quot;you are a s;

    quot;Are you a Muslim?quot;

    Carl felt ;ery of Being, by Gabriel Marcel? I really liked t one. I t t one ;

    quot;No, cmon Carl, ansion,quot; Eded. quot;t to be frankness and y bet;

    quot;I tion can be reac is doing all it can at t,quot; Carl said. quot;I to be said on all sides of tion. t suco le, you kno? I  got but t;

    quot;People like people ; Ed;You look kind of crummy, if you dont mind my saying so.quot;

    quot;You really ts too long?quot; Carl asked, feeling his hair again.

    quot;Do you tty color?quot; Ed;Are you envious?quot;

    quot;No,quot; Carl said. quot;Not envious.quot;

    quot;See? Exaggeration and egoism. Just like I said.quot;

    quot;Youre kind of boring, Edo tell trut;

    Ed about t. t;But Im ;

    quot;Its t; Carl said. quot;Im tired of talking about color, ts talk about values or somet;

    quot;Carl, Im a fool,quot; Edward said suddenly.

    quot;Yes,quot; Carl said.

    quot;But Im a ; Ed;ts  me.quot;

    quot;You are lovely, Ed; Carl said. quot;Its true. You  is good.quot;

    quot;O; Edly. quot;Youre very ; ;I noticed t.quot;

    quot;t is,quot; Carl said, quot;I read. Did you read t t was a ;

    quot;Get a , Carl,quot; Ed;Get a ne. Maybe one of talian suits igs. You could be up put your back into it.quot;

    quot;uation distress you?  you just alk to somebody else?quot;

    quot;You bot; Ed;I keep trying to penetrate your inner reality, to find out  is. Isnt t curious?quot;

    quot;Joe tle Leg and a couple of otitles escape me at t,quot; Carl said. quot;I t of our younger American ers.quot;

    quot;Carl,quot; Ed;y? Blurt it out, baby.quot;

    quot;Its mine,quot; Carl said quietly.  his shoes, which resembled a pair of large dead brownish birds.

    quot;Are you sure you didnt steal t dollar and a ioned on your sign?quot;

    quot;Edold you I didnt steal t dollar and a ; Carl stamped up and do sure is cold eentreet.quot;

    quot;ts your imagination, Carl,quot; Ed;treet isnt any colder t its colder  arises from your marginal status as a despised person in our society.quot;

    quot;Probably,quot; Carl said. t;You kno to t, and asked to give me a job in t do it?quot;

    quot;Do you blow good, man? ;

    quot;t give me t cotton-pickin job,quot; Carl said. quot; do you t?quot;

    quot;tological love,quot; Ed;?quot;

    quot;t is later love,quot; Carl said. quot;ts , anys love on term refers to a set of conditions ory ell to ourselves to make ourselves ;

    quot;O; Ed;Ignorance and darkness.quot;

    quot;Ed; Carl said, quot;you dont like me.quot;

    quot;I do too like you, Carl,quot; Ed;eal your books, mostly?quot;

    quot;Mostly in drugstores,quot; Carl said. quot;I find tly tend to stay near tion counters at tore,  of tore. Its normally pretty easy to slip a couple in your overcoat pocket, if youre .quot;

    quot;But. . .quot;

    quot;Yes,quot; Carl said, quot;I knoeal books Ill steal ot stealing books is metap from stealing like money. Villon ty good to say on t I believe.quot;

    quot;Is t in If I ere King?quot;

    quot;Besides,quot; Carl added, quot; you ever stolen anyt some point in your life?quot;

    quot;My life,quot; Ed;?quot;

    quot;Ed satisfied  ; Carl said, surprised. quot;I love t  makes me so ;

    quot;Listen Carl,quot; Ed; concentrate on improving your ing.quot;

    quot;My cer, you mean.quot;

    quot;No,quot; Ed;dont boter. Just improve your ing. Make larger capitals. Make smaller loops in your y and your g. atc to display disorientation. atc;

    quot;Its an idea. But isnt t kind of a superficial approaco t;

    quot;Be careful about t; Ed on. quot;Spacing of lines s. Pay attention to your finals. ty-t kinds of finals and eacells a lot about a person. Ill lend you ting is to advancement, or if not t least a key. You could be t man of your race to be Vice-President.quot;

    quot;ts someto s for, all rig;

    quot;ould you like me to go get t;

    quot;I dont t; Carl said, quot;no ts not t I dont ion.  I o take a leak. ould you mind e?quot;

    quot;Not at all,quot; Ed  s;Boy, t t;

    quot;t you a bit,quot; Carl said ;Ill just go into tore ;

    urned tiful part of the knuckles grow.

 The Jokers Greatest Triumph

    Fredric  over to  every tuesday nigypically sitting in udy drinking a glass of somet doudy in s.

    quot;ell Fredric w ;

    quot;No Bruce t sort of rocking along.quot;

    quot;ell tuesday nigion on tuesday nig;

    quot;I kno pick tuesday nigo come over.quot;

    quot;You  me to turn on teresting on ttle music from my ;

    Bruce aynes radio ra features. urned it on tening to tokyo or somein.

    quot;tell me Bruce  youre drinking t; Fredric asked.

    quot;Im sorry Fredric its tomato juice. Can I get you a glass?quot;

    quot;Does it  or is it just plain tomato juice?quot;

    quot;Its tomato juice tle vodka.quot;

    quot;Yes I  mind a glass,quot; Fredric said. quot;Not too ;

    out to tco make t up and  over to examine t y darkisance, probably some rare exotic poison .

    quot; is tuff on t; o the room.

    quot;I must  ttle of vodka in tmobile,quot; Bruce said. quot;Os curare, deadliest of t; ;It attacks tor nerves. Be careful t scratc;

    quot;ts okay Ill just drink tomato juice straig; Fredric said settling  of t;O symbol spotlig t mean a call from Commissioner Gordon at ers.quot;

    Bruce looked out of t culminating in a perfect bat symbol lanced the evening sky.

    quot;I told you tuesday nig,quot; Bruce ayne said.  omato-juice do;e w;

    quot;Sure, take your time,quot; Fredric said. quot;By till at Andover?quot;

    quot;Yes,quot; Bruce said. quot;tle trouble ;

    quot;ell I didnt mean to interrupt you,quot; Fredric said. quot;Go a look at t;

    After Bruce  out to tmobile and tplane ed.

    Batman o.quot; quot;ake?quot; ;Its alerminate kind of assignment like t;

    quot;Lets flip,quot; Fredric suggested.

    quot;Do you er?quot; Batman asked.

    quot;No but I  s; Fredric said. tmobile, tails for tplane. the coin came up heads.

    quot;ell,quot; Batman said as to table Batmobile, quot;at least you can s under t.quot;

    quot;I e to drink it straig; Fredric said.

    quot;Press t button t; Batman said. Fredric pressed tton and a panel on to reveal a little bar, er, soda, quinine, lemons, limes etc.

    quot;t; Fredric said. quot;Can I mix you one?quot;

    quot;Not man said. quot;Is ter? I forgot to get some o tore last nig;

    quot;Plenty,quot; Fredric said. onic as Batman mobile expertly treets of Goty.

    In Commissioner Gordons office at Police ers t;Glad you finally got man. ;

    quot;t; Batman said. quot;Fredric, Commissioner Gordon.quot; t;No?quot;

    quot;t; Commissioner Gordon said. ;to you, Batman! Im afraid your old enemy, t;

    Batman ;Cornis; o.quot; quot;; Batman said. quot;to me like anoto a duel of s!quot;

    quot;Flying Dutc; Fredric exclaimed, reading ted on t;t vessel?  can it mean!quot;

    quot;A cleverly disguised clue!quot; Batman said. quot;tc c  y tonig;

    quot;Good tman!quot; Commissioner Gordon said. quot;I probably never  in a t;

    quot;ell  out to t!quot; Batman said. quot;s t o get t;

    quot;ell if I  34treet until you  take a rigil it connects er youre on ts clear sailing!quot; ed.

    quot;ait a minute!quot; Batman said. quot;ouldnt it be quicker to get on t comes in t 11treet and take t to t you t ime?quot;

    quot;ell I come to  ; t;But tting in anot you o detour dorand, t over to 99to get back on takes you about t of your ; he said.

    quot;Okay!quot; Batman said, quot; 34t  anyt;

    quot;O; Commissioner Gordon said. quot; Exeter?quot;

    quot;Its not Exeter its Andover,quot; Batman said. quot;tle trouble ;

    quot;I tle trouble  myself,quot; t;O¨´ est man livre?quot;

    quot;O¨´ est ton livre?quot; Batman said.

    quot;O¨´ est son livre?quot; ting at Fredric.

    quot;tout cela sest pass¨¦ en dix-neuf cent vingt-quatre,quot; Fredric said.

    quot;ell ter creep Commissioner,quot; Batman said. quot;tty slippery customer. Come on Fredric.quot;

    quot;Glad to  you Commissioner,quot; Fredric said.

    quot;Me too,quot; t;tman. ;

    quot; a friend,quot; Batman said smiling under his mask.

    quot;e get togetuesday nig;

    quot; do you do Fredric? I mean ;

    quot;I sell Grit, a nes circulation concentrated in rural areas,quot; Fredric said. quot; rigy. Many of todays leaders sold Grit during t;

    quot;Okay,quot; said Commissioner Gordon, us of ;Good luck. t¨¦l¨¦p;

    quot;Rig; Batman said, and treet to tmobile, wruck zone.

    quot;Can op for a minute on t; Fredric asked. quot;Im out of cigarettes.quot;

    quot;tment,quot; Batman said puston. A panel on to reveal a freson of Viceroys.

    quot;I usually prefer Kents,quot; Fredric said, quot;but Viceroys are tasty too.quot;

    quot;t t; Batman said. quot;Most of ttes are just advertising as far as Im concerned.quot;

    quot;I  be surprised if you ,quot; Fredric said. tmobile sped doreets of Goty to.

    quot;turn on t; Batman suggested. quot;Maybe c;

    Fredric turned on t t.

    At Got t   dismounting from  rip, es by respectful airport police in gray uniforms.

    quot;ell everyto be okay,quot; Batman said. quot;ting to take Mr. van Voort to ination.quot;

    quot;ts a ne it?quot; Fredric asked.

    it a man leaped the shadowy figure inside.

    hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA hA!

    quot;ts t; Fredric reflected. quot;t be t;

    quot;Batman! I t t clue I sent you ely at sea!quot;

    quot;No, Joker! Im afraid t;

    quot;But not for long Batman! Im going to bring you doo eart;

    it movement, to terminal Building!

    CRASh!

    quot;Great Scott!quot; Fredric said to ;Batman is stunned! ;

    quot;You foiled my plans Batman,quot; t;but before t o lift t mask of yours and find out w;

    Fredric cricken. quot;Great Scott! tman! Noman is really Bruce ayne!quot;

    At t Robin,  Andover, many miles aplane on trip and came racing to ted, grasped a cable loed sky t tmans face!

    quot;; Fredric called. quot;I t you  Andover!quot;

    quot;I  I got a sudden feeling Barman needed me so I fle; Robin said. quot;;

    quot;Fine,quot; Fredric said. quot;But  tplane in t t-Cave. I dont understand.quot;

    quot;e ; Robin explained. quot;Alts not generally kno;

    itunned Batman to ting Batmobile. quot;You drive tmobile back to t-Cave and Ill folloplane,quot; Robin said. quot;All rig;

    quot;C; Fredric said. Dont you t to give tle brandy or somet;

    quot;ts a good idea,quot; Robin said. quot;Press t button ts tton.quot;

    Fredric pressed tton and a panel slid back, revealing a bottle of B amp; B and te number of glasses.

    quot;tty tasty,quot; Fredric said, tasting t; a fift;

    quot;Around eig; Robin said. quot;t seems to be restoring o ;

    quot;Great Scott,quot; Batman said, quot;w ;

    quot;tunned,quot; Fredric explained.

    quot; are you doing  you  sc; Batman said.

    quot;I ; Robin said. quot;Are you okay now? Can you drive ;

    quot;I t; Batman said. quot; o t;

    quot; a; Fredric said, quot;but not before lifting your mask ;

    quot;Yes Batman,quot; Robin said seriously, quot;I tity.quot;

    quot;Great Scott!quot; Batman said. quot;If  to t er! ell, its a problem.quot;

    to t-Cave, t ter, in Bruce aynes study, Bruce ayne, Fredric, and Robin, hem.

    quot; makes tick I ; Fredric said. quot;I mean ions?quot;

    quot;Consider  any level of conduct,quot; Bruce said slo;in treet, in interpersonal relations, in jail -- alraordinary contradiction. y and compulsively neat, aloof and desperately gregarious, entic and sullen, generous and stingy, a snappy dresser and a scarecroleman and a boor, given to extremes of o apply tering aime in trivial pursuits, decorous and unseemly, land and cruel, tolerant yet open to t outrageous varieties of bigotry, a great friend and an implacable enemy, a lover and an abominator of -spoken and foul-moutan, sed by inferiority, outcast and social climber, felon and p, barbarian and patron of ts, enamored of novelty and solidly conservative, p, large of soul and unbearably petty, distant and brimming erate liar and astonisrict ty casurous and timid, imaginative and stolid, malignly destructive and a planter of trees on Arbor Day -- I tell you frankly, t;

    quot;ts extremely ; Fredric stated. quot;I tful analysis.quot;

    quot;I ; Bruce replied.

    quot;ell its very brilliant just t; Fredric noted. quot;I guess Id better go ;

    quot;e could all use a little sleep,quot; Bruce ayne said. quot;By t sales coming along? Are you getting many subscriptions?quot;

    quot;Yes quite a fe; Fredric said. quot;Ive been doing particularly ions of Goty altrengt is usually found in rural areas. By t to borroo urday.quot;

    quot;t,quot; Dick said.

    quot;Okay Bruce,quot; Fredric said, quot;Ill see you next tuesday nig;

 To London and Rome

    Do you kno more thing else? Alison asked.

    thERE AS A BRIEF PAUSE

    ? I said.

    A seontacs.

    thERE AS A LONG PAUSE

    t for instance fixing up last years fall dresses and lots of othings.

    tREMENDOUS PAUSE DURING  hER A NECChI SEING-MAChINE

    onderful! Alison said sitting at trols of ttonimes Sunday Magazine. ened. I  a tion to Necc be sure t erest  be  long at least.

    thE NECChI

    t o park on treet because our apartment building ely loved tic kiss. I paid for t City Bank.

    tERVAL

    Peter Alison said,  to do now?

    O know I said.

    tERVAL

    ell  simply sit around tment Alison said so  to t Aqueduct  in front of t a edly. I paid for tal National Bank.

    tERMISSION BEtEEN RACES SO E ENt AROUND tO tABLES AND BOUGRAILER

    trailer tacrailer c  trailer could not be c one, to t a , o keep him warm.

    iful Alison said.

    A front-runner too I said.

    tERVAL OF SEVERAL DAYS. tRAILER UP tO tO MILAUKEE

    After stopping for lunc o like very muc ely forgotten? I kne t alt  imagine  was.

    to keep ment building! Alison said triumply, pointing at Dan. Sely rigily bougory  suburb. to make table I boug grand piano.

    ON tEP OF tER

    tle matters tend to Alison said,  ting ts and t money.

    in tore.

    Garden hose Alison said calmly.

    tABLE SILENCE

    It  I ate Bank amp; trust and place it in tional and I did so. t of t to fly us to Aqueduct,  of t to fly us back, appeared at to be paid. ts names  from Sam  jacket, ed as t.

    ell I said looking around tter call a piano teacand t  use pianos tend to fall out of tune.

    Not only pianos Alison said giving me an exciting look.

    A SILENCE FREIG tO BED FIRSt EACUNER FOR thE EARLY MORNING

    t day Mr. ason from tral National called to report an overdraft of several  on telepon from t do you  for breakfast?  ? I asked. Noto go out for breakfast.

    So  doo tore  back to ticed t trees surrounding it, which depressed me.

    iced I asked, t trees?

    A SILENCE

    Yes Alison said, Ive noticed.

    A PROLONGED SILENCE

    In fact Alison said, treelessness of t makes me yearn for our old apartment building.

    A tERRIBLE SILENCE

    t least one could look at ts in the lobby.

    ABSOLUtE SILENCE FOR ONE MINUtE

    As soon as ree service and buy some trees.

    Maples I said.

    S SILENCE

    Oer w a fine idea Alison said brig whese people in our livingroom?

    SILENtLY E REGARDED tO MEN  ON thE SOFA

    Realizing t teacuner ry the piano?

    Yep t man said, couldnt make ails out of it.

    And you? I asked, turning to ther man.

    Beats me ified look.

    seems to be ty? I asked.

    thERE AS A ShAMEFACED SILENCE

    Frankly teac my real line of work. Really he said, Im a jockey.

    you? I said to this companion.

    Ouner all riguner said. Its just t Im not very good at it. Never was and never will be.

    E CONSIDERED thE PROBLEM IN SILENCE

    I ion to make I announced.  is your name? I asked, nodding in tion of the jockey.

    Slim er.

    ell Slim I said, rim  s. And Buster, you can plant trees he house.

    tER AND SLIM tRIED tO DIGESt thE GOOD NES

    I settled on a salary of $12,000 a year for Slim and a sliger. to Courtlandt Street to s to my mistress, Amelia.

    tment so open it. Instead sicing scales on e. I knocked again and called out: Amelia!

    tE FILLED t hALLAY

    I knocked again but Amelia continued to play. So I sat doeps and began to read t intervals and at time  the psychology of Amelia.

    Montgomery ard I noticed in t 40?. as Amelia being adamant I considered, because of Alison?

    SILENtLY I ONDERED  tO DO

    Amelia I said at lengt to give you a nice present of around $5500. ould you like t?

    AN INtERMINABLE SILENCE. tE OPENED thE DOOR

    Do you mean it? she said.

    Certainly I said.

    Can you afford it? sfully.

    I old ook side  lengtional for  s tty  ty as ever, and ime for an  tment Amelia said Peter, I t person .

    IONAL ;t It?quot;

    ing lunc a ne I said, ? Very nice Alison said, but  to go ser lunch you!

    So e a y luncer drive us in to ted Department Store  many t for Dan.

    Do you t to buy uniforms for Buster and Slim? Alison asked and I replied t I t not, t seem t who would enjoy wearing uniforms.

    A FROStY SILENCE

    I t to wear uniforms Alison said firmly.

    No I said, I t.

    DEAD SILENCE

    Uniforms  Alison said. A crest or something.

    No.

    tERVAL DURING  A CO t

    Instead of uniforms I bougobacco, and bouger a large sterling silver co buckle and a belt to go .

    Buster erling silver belt buckle and said t  Slim oo er all Alison  of the Rolls.

    Alison decided t se pie per s too if to flying. Se armchair.

    t well.

    A StUNNED PAUSE

    Everyone o a panic by t of Dans illness and I bougate e. tate  ional. tore,  Dan needed a doctor. tipped Andreurers trust and asked o fetc doctor  notice.

    E LOOKED At ONE ANOthER IN ORDLESS FEAR

    Dan  if  e attention, t miged.

    Peter for Gods sake do somethis poor horse! Alison cried.

    PAUSING ONLY tO  A LARGE AL NEARBY FOR $1.5 MILLION

    e sent Dan over in railer rict instructions t  of everyter accompanied or I o tal too. Concern for Dan  in my mind at t moment.

    telephone rang and Alison answered.

    ts some girl, for you.

    REtURNING tO tAtED

    As I  it mig old  Dans illness. S it e if s to tal.

    A MOMENt OF INDECISION FOLLOED BY A PAINFUL SILENCE

    You dont t e Amelia said.

    No Amelia I said trut.

    t tion of iny status in all our lives left o say.

    tION LAPSED

    to c ure. te of  Alison ions and I returned to ty.

    AN US FILLED It AND SUSPICION

    But nos George and Sam rusten raigo tal, omacing easily George and Sam said, and could come  a week.

    Oer! Alison exclaimed in a pleased al. to celebrate  o London and Rome on a Viscount jet w for an undisclosed sum and wo fly very well.

 A Shower of Gold

    Because erson ans said quot;ell pay you to be on tV if your opinions are strong enoug; old to come to Room 1551 in ton. ter spending ty minutes ; do you rong opinions about?quot; Miss Arbor asked. quot;Art,quot; Peterson said, quot;life, money.quot; quot;For instance?quot; quot;I believe,quot; Peterson said, quot;t ty of mice can be loing t of serotonin in t scs, including lines t make almost complete circles. I believe t tc; quot;ts very interesting!quot; Miss Arbor cried. quot;Its all in t; Peterson replied.

    quot;I see youre a sculptor,quot; Miss Arbor said, quot;ts ; quot; is ture of t; Peterson asked. quot;Ive never seen it.quot; quot;Let me ansion ion,quot; Miss Arbor said. quot;Mr. Peterson, are you absurd?quot; e cream. quot;I beg your pardon?quot; quot;I mean,quot; Miss Arbor said earnestly, quot;do you encounter your oence as gratuitous? Do you feel de trap? Is t; quot;I ; Peterson offered. quot;ts excellent!quot; Miss Arbor exclaimed. quot;ts a very good beginning! ries, Mr. Peterson, to discover oday, e, living in anguiss tion ry to anserson. Man stands alone in a featureless, anonymous landscape, in fear and trembling and sickness unto deatrangement. Finitude.  radical ; quot;On television?quot; quot;ere interested in basics, Mr. Peterson. e dont play around.quot; quot;I see,quot; Peterson said,  t of t; I  to knoerson, is terested in absurdity?quot; quot;Miss Arbor,quot; ;to tell you trut kno sure I believe in it.quot; quot;Oerson!quot; Miss Arbor said, s;Dont say t! Youll be. . .quot; quot;Punis; Peterson suggested. quot;You may not be interested in absurdity,quot; s;but absurdity is interested in you.quot; quot;I  of problems, if t ; Peterson said. quot;Existence is problematic for you,quot; Miss Arbor said, relieved. quot;two ;

    quot;Im going to be on television,quot; Peterson said to ;A terrible s; Jean-Claude responded. quot;Is it unavoidable?quot; quot;Its unavoidable,quot; Peterson said, quot;if I  to eat.quot; quot;; Jean-Claude asked and Peterson said: quot;tion considering t; quot;You  by any c; quot;No one is buying,quot; Jean-Claude said. quot;Undoubtedly it is terms of -- s. to boat  consider again o you about before?quot; quot;No,quot; Peterson said, quot;I  consider it.quot; quot;ttle ones ; Jean-Claude said, looking a;to sa across tter.quot; quot;Its supposed to be a ,quot; Peterson said, as calmly as possible. quot;You dont go around sa across t; quot;t place ; Jean-Claude said, quot;is not very difficult. I can put my t; rate. quot;Invariably  piece I see tely sure you didnt conceive it  instance?quot; quot;Absolutely,quot; Peterson said. Not a single piece of red. quot;You ic impulse,quot; Jean-Claude said. quot;I admire, dimly, ture. You read too mucory of art. It estranges you from ties for autic self in century.quot; quot;I kno; Peterson said, quot;could you let me y until t?quot;

    Peterson sat in  on lo.  close to t but felt no o appear on television program, done sometly disgraceful, of  approve. But I needed told elepurned off and tten is crying for milk. And Im running out of beer. t feels t ts serson reflected, surely   me to go  beer?   at o television or somet: nausea? uation in o be called Seasons Greetings and combined to radiators, one from a C tudor, one from a Ford pick-up, one from a 1932 Essex,  of a former telepcems. t seemed riger a time tanding. A couple of  doorced off to tor and found a sand  inspiration: a t gratefully nevertood looking at time to time so as to vie from a neo t burst open and t ran in, trailing a sixteen-pound sledge.  bloings, t and te directions. t Service men erson in a paralyzing combination of secret grips. erson t, very good, ure, fit, trust. ts second and tor and t radiator. ttacked torcer sketc and tti stickman Peterson  in Paris. quot;But Mr. President!quot; Peterson sed. quot;I t ; A Secret Service man bit  lifted turned toerson, and said: quot;Your liver is diseased? ts a good sign. Youre making progress. Youre t;

    quot;I o t guy in te ty darn good job.quot; Petersons barber, a man named Kitc and titled to Be, o . quot;As far as ions; tinued, quot;its essentially a kind of I-tions I mean. You got to  ions. In tzsc, . . ell and good. But,quot; Kitc;you  tionso be suc -as-s y, get it? So t you can break out of t a little more off t; quot;Everybody kno me,quot; Peterson said irritably. quot;Look,quot; Kitc; me to somebody else, you say my barber, dont you? Sure you do. In t you as being my customer, get it? But you dont regard yourself as being my customer and I dont regard myself as your barber. Os .quot; tcersons neck. quot;Like Pascal said: tural misfortune of our mortal and feeble condition is so c ed around an ear. quot;Listen,quot; Peterson said, quot;elevision program called ?quot; quot;Frankly,quot; t;it smells of t tell you t.quot; quot; do you mean?quot; Peterson said excitedly. quot; kind of a job?quot; t;Its too o talk about,quot; Kitc;But its ; quot;; Peterson asked.

    t nigall foreign-looking man cco t  knocking and said quot;Good evening, Mr. Peterson, I am t-piano player, is ticularly like to ; quot;Cat-piano?quot; Peterson said, gasping, s; are you talking about?  do you ?quot; A biograpo t;t-piano,quot; said tor, quot;is an instrument of trument. You neednt s quite so muc; erson tried to be brave. quot;I dont understand,quot; ;Let me explain,quot; tall foreign-looking man said graciously. quot;ts of eigs -- tave -- encased in trument in suc only trude. te pae cats respond -- ails. A tail-puller, or perail playerquot; (;is stationed at trument,  t moment tail-puller pulls t tail. tail-note is of course quite different from te and produces sounds in ters. rument, Mr. Peterson?quot; quot;No, and I dont believe it exists,quot; Peterson said ;t early seventeentury engraving by Franz van der yngaert, Mr. Peterson, in  ; t-piano player ed rousers and a leglike contraption of al and plastic appeared. quot;And noo make a request? tyrdom of St. Sebastian? t overture? rings?quot; quot;But erson began. quot;tten is crying for milk, Mr. Peterson. And -piano plays.quot; quot;But its not my kitten,quot; Peterson said reasonably. quot;Its just a kitten t rying to give it a sure its still around. I  seen it since terday.quot; tten appeared, looked at Peterson reproacself against t-piano players mec;ait a minute!quot; Peterson exclaimed. quot;t cat  been  from me?  am I supposed to do?quot; quot;Cerson, c kitten as a ering t  is to say, kitten. An effort on t of to --quot; quot;But it c; Peterson cried, quot;t t . I didnt o do !quot; t-piano player repeated ;Yes, Mr. Peterson, I knoo you, it is all a gigantic conspiracy. Ive ory a imes. But tten is  not? tten is  not?quot; Peterson looked at tten, o its empty dis;Listen Mr. Peterson,quot; t-piano player said, quot;listen!quot; to the hideous music began.

    ter terson opened antly, in response to an insistent ringing, and found ared at by ters, carrying suitcases. quot;Im S; t girl said, quot;and to stay.quot; tremely purposeful. quot;Im sorry,quot; Peterson said, quot;I cant --quot; quot;e sleep anyness of , quot;on to. eve done it before.quot; Ann and Louise stood on toes to get a good look. quot;s t funny music?quot; S;it sounds pretty far-out. e really  be any trouble at all and itll just be a little ion.quot; quot;Yes,quot; Peterson said, quot;but ;Youre an artist,quot; Sernly, quot;airs.quot; Peterson cursed ting of tory. quot;Listen,quot; ;I cant even feed t. I cant even keep myself in beer. t t be  autic. Im a minor artist.quot; quot;tural misfortune of our mortal and feeble condition is so c ; S;ts Pascal.quot; quot;I kno; Peterson said, ;; Louise asked. Ann marco tco prepare, from supplies removed from ;Kiss me,quot; S;I need love.quot; Peterson fleo o a telep;Miss Arbor? terson. Listen, Miss Arbor, I cant do it. No, I mean really. Im being punis it. No, I mean it. You cant imagine  as a great personal favor. Miss Arbor? Please?quot;

    testants e expert, and an airline pilot in full uniform, allace E. Rice. quot;Just be natural,quot; Miss Arbor said, quot;and of course be frank. e score on ty of your anss measured by t; quot;s t a polygrap; t said. quot;ty of your ans; Miss Arbor said, ely. quot;o kno; quot;Lying?quot; allace E. Rice supplied. testants ed to to a large illuminated tote board er of ceremonies, Peterson noted  pleasure, resembled t and did not look at all friendly.

    t up in e pajamas and gave a karate demonstration in . told , late at nig tant manager, ;rip-c; ed on t; t?quot; t;Isnt t somet; tically and Artood modestly ;No; ts play , Bill Lemmon!quot; No,  look like t, Peterson decided. quot;Art; Bill Lemmon said, quot;for ty dollars -- do you love your mot; quot;Yes,quot; Art;Yes, of course.quot; A bell rang, tote board flas;; ted, quot;lying! lying! lying!quot; quot;Art; Bill Lemmon said, looking at ;t ty of your ansionable. ould you like to try it again? take anot it?quot; quot;Youre crazy,quot; Art;Of course I love my mot; ;Is your motconig; quot;Yes, Bill, s; quot;udying karate?quot; quot;t; quot;And ated. t;My mot; quot;tty expensive,  t; quot;Yes, Bill, t; quot;; quot;Five dollars an ; quot;Your mot make very muc; quot;No, Bill, s.quot; quot;Art does your mot; quot;S  district.quot; quot;And ; quot;All ; quot;And s make very muc; quot;No. But sed to pay for ted on it.quot; Bill Lemmon said: quot;Sed a son ; Petersons liver leaped and tote board spelled out, in e letters, t, allace E. Rice, o reveal t , on a fligo Miami, eting on ains cap, t t engineer aken a Polaroid picture, and t ary retirement after nineteen years of fait;It ly safe,quot; allace E. Rice said, quot;you dont understand, tomatic pilot can fly t plane better t; o a lifelong and intolerable itcer ste on top of t ripes on t until it was black.

    I erson t, ty is punis believing in it. I affirm ty. On ty is itself absurd. Before t question, Peterson began to talk. quot;Yesterday,quot; Peterson said to television audience, quot;in typeer in front of tti sen Ingredient Soup t included a stone from a toads ood ted on t  a little blue sticker reading t OF t CONSPIRACY FOR GLOBAL DOMINAtION OF tIRE GLOBE. Coming  said in ten-foot letters COARD S;Golden Earringsquot; in a  nig-out at our  Street and my mot to get me out of t; t to turn Peterson off, but Peterson kept talking. quot;In t; Peterson said, quot;absurd if you ies neverte and escalate all around us and tunities for beginning again. I am a minor artist and my dealer  even display my  minor is as minor does and ligrike even yet. Dont be reconciled. turn off your television sets,quot; Peterson said, quot;casimism. Visit girls at dusk. Play tar. ed  first ed? t ; A man on t of Peterson ten but Peterson ignored rated on ttle red ligtle red ligo camera in an attempt to t Peterson oo smart for it and follo. quot;My mot; Peterson said, quot;and my fatoral and energetic and ricer. As a young man I e in faculty, in form express and admirable, and in appre; Peterson  on and on and alt.