-- What did you do today?
-- Went to the grocery store and Xeroxed a box of English muffins, two pounds of ground veal and an apple. In flagrant violation of the Cht Act.
-- You had your nap, I remember that --
-- I had my nap.
-- Lunch, I remember that, there was lunch, slept with Susie after lunch, then your nap, woke up, right?, went Xeroxing, right?, read a book not a whole book but part of a book --
-- Talked to Happy oelephone saw the seven ocloews did not wash the dishes want to up some of this mess?
-- If one does nothing but listen to the new music, everything else drifts, goes away, frays. Did Odysseus feel this way when he and Diomedes decided to steal Atheatue from the Trojans, so that they would bee dejected and lose the war? I dont think so, but who is to know what effect the new music of that remote time had on its hearers?
-- Or how it pares to the new music of this time?
-- One only jecture.
-- Ah well. I was talking to a girl, talking to her mother actually but the daughter was very much present, oreet. The daughter was absolutely someone youd like to take to bed and hug and kiss, if you werent too old. If she werent too young. She was a wonderful-looking young woman and she was looking at me quite seductively, very seductively, sm a bit, and I was thinking quite well of myself, very well ihinking myself quite the -- Until I realized she was just practig.
-- Yes, I still think of myself as a young man.
-- Yes.
-- A slightly old young man.
-- Thats not unusual.
-- A slightly old young man still advertising irees and rivers for a mate.
-- Yes.
-- Being .
-- Youre very .
-- er than most.
-- Its not escaped me. Your ness.
-- Some of these people arent . People you meet.
-- What you do?
-- Set an example. Be .
-- Dig it, dig it.
-- I got three different shower heads. Different degrees of sting.
-- Dynamite.
-- I got one of these Finnish pads that slip over the hand.
-- Numero uno.
-- Pedicare. Thats ahing.
-- Think youre the mules eyebrows dont you?
-- No. I feel like Insuffit Funds.
-- Feel like a busted-up car by the side of the road stripped of value.
-- Feel like I dont like this!
-- Youre just a little down, man, down, thats what they call it, down.
-- Well how e they didnt bring us n of roses with a purple silk sash with gold lettering on that mother? How e that?
-- Dunno baby. Maybe we lost?
-- How could we lose? How could we? We!
-- We were standing tall. Ready to hand them their asses, their clocks. Yet maybe --
-- I remember the old days when we almost automatically --
-- Yes. Almost without effort --
-- Right. e in, ander. Put it right there, anywhere will do, let me move that for you. Just put that sucker dht there. An eleven-foot-high silver cup!
-- Beautifully engraved, with dates.
-- Beautifully engraved, with dates. That was then.
-- Well. Is there help ing?
-- I called the number for help and they said there was no more help.
-- Im taking you to Pool.
-- Ive been there.
-- Im taking you to Pool, city of new life.
-- Maybe tomorrow or another day.
-- Pool, the revivifier.
-- Oh man Im not up for it.
-- Where one taste the essences, get swindled into health.
-- I got things to do.
-- That