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-- Cold here in the garden.

-- You were plaining about the sun.

-- But when it goes behind a cloud --

-- Well, you t have everything.

-- The flowers are beautiful.

-- Indeed.

-- soling to have the flowers.

-- Half-way soled already.

-- And these Japanese rocks --

-- Artfully placed, most artfully.

-- You must admit, a great solation.

-- And Social Security.

-- A great solation.

-- And philosophy. Furthermore.

-- I read a book. Just the other day.

-- Sexuality, too.

-- They have books about it. I read one.

-- Well to the woods no more. I assume.

-- Where theres a will theres a way. Thats what my mother always said.

-- I wonder if its true.

-- I think not.

-- Well, youre driving me crazy.

-- Well youre driving me crazy too. Know what I mean?

-- Going to snap one of these days.

-- If you were a Japanese master you wouldnt snap. Those guys never snapped. Some of them were y.

-- Well, you t have everything.

-- Cold, here in the garden.

-- Ca caw.

-- You want to sing that song.

-- t remember how it goes.

-- Getting farther and farther away from life.

-- How do you feel about that?

-- Guilty but less guilty than I should.

-- you fiuhat for me?

-- Not yet I want to think about it.

-- Well, I have to muck out the stable and buff up the silver.

-- They trust you with the silver?

-- Of course. I have their trust.

-- You enjoy their trust.

-- Absolutely.

-- Well we still havent decided what color, to paint the trucks.

-- I said blue.

-- Surely not your last word on the subject.

-- I have some swatches. If youd care to take a gander.

-- Not now. This sun is blistering.

-- New skin. Yoing to plain?

-- Thank the Lord for all small favors.

-- The kid ever e to see you?

-- Did for a while. Then stopped.

-- How does that make you feel?

-- Oh, I dont blame him.

-- Well, you t have everything.

-- Thats true. Whats the time?

-- Looks to be about one.

-- Wheres your watch?

-- Hocked it.

-- Whatd you get?

-- Twelve-fifty.

-- God, arent these flowers beautiful!

-- Only three of them. But each remarkable, of its kind.

-- What are they?

-- Some kind of Japanese dealies I dont know.

-- Lazing in the garden. This is really most luxurious.

-- Listening to the radio. "Elmers Tune."

-- I dont like it when they let girls talk on the radio.

-- Never used to have them. Now theyre everywhere.

-- You t really say too much. These days.

-- Doesnt that make you nervous? Girls talking on the radio?

-- I liked H. V. Kaltenborn. Hes long gone.

-- Whatd you do yesterday?

-- Took a walk. In the wild trees.

-- They spend a lot of time w about where to park their cars. Glad I dont have one.

-- Haveen anything except some rice, this m. Cooked it with chi broth.

-- This place is cold, ing around it.

-- Fot to buy soap, fot to buy coffee --

-- All right. The hollowed-out book taining the single Swedish municipal bond in the amount of fifty thousand Swedish s is not yours. Weve established that. Lets go on.

-- It was never mine. Or it might have been mine, once. Perhaps it beloo my former wife. I said I wasnt sure. She was fond of hi

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