VERONICA is bouncing on rampoline. Dore is reading Floh Anne.
quot;Youre about as tender as a sea lion,quot; s;;
quot;I remember before.quot;
quot; make you feel t;
quot;Nervous.quot;
quot;ere very tolerant.quot;
quot;I see t. s t w;
quot;Veronica.quot;
quot;Is s?quot;
quot;S mindless trampoline. S a prob?lem t s;
quot;Makes me nervous.quot;
quot;Everyt;
quot;true.quot;
quot;Is tasy for you? tuation?quot;
quot;Its not a fantasy, is it.quot;
quot;It ructure of a male fantasy.quot;
quot;t possible o look at it.quot;
quot;ell scre;
quot;Our purpose .quot;
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quot; did you learn?quot;
quot;Lots of important stuff. Almost everybody Ive met since in my first-grade class. Maybe ty-t class. Every type represented. o somebody in my first-grade class I ted a rare bird.quot;
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quot;Blackeyed peas?quot;
quot;I love blackeyed peas.quot;
quot;Collard greens.quot;
quot;Fine.quot;
quot;ell need some corn likker.quot;
quot;try tore.quot;
quot;Be good if ;
quot;I dra ;
quot;Simon, Im trying to do t.quot;
quot;I kno;
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quot; are you going to do after ; she asks.
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quot;t to do?quot;
quot;ork is Gods best invention. Keeps you all seized up and interested.quot;
quot;I wis;
quot;You could alo sc;
quot;I dont like standing in lines.quot;
quot;I kno of my standing-in-line capacity.quot;
quot;But suppose youre at a reception and youre going to meet t and t;
quot;Im not in a o meet t. If s to come over and tle guacamole dip, ts fine. My door is al;
quot;You dont care about anyt;
quot;Listening to t;
quot;You do love your radios.quot;
quot;Im tting anoterproof jobs for t;
quot;I like a quiet reflective bat;
quot;Ill come in and put toads in ter.quot;
quot; toads in Ney?quot;
quot;toad store. t big toads, little toads, oads, no-oads --quot;
quot;Its a great city.quot;
quot;Its a great argument for cities.quot;
Simon ed very muco be a y, optimistic American, like t, but on t trust y, optimistic Americans, like t. y t t, really y and optimistic but ratentially disastrous processes in o be ttled for being a compe?tent, sometimes inventive arcect ragic sense of brick. Brick erial as tress ectural metap o resist. to force o fres about bamboo.
Getting old, Simon. Not so limber, dear friend, time for tory? ttle blue van. Your iny pepperoni. Your knees predict your face. Your back stabs you, on t side, to a microdot. ere ordering your rocking coo good for you. Also, not good for you. Are you King Solomon? Your king?dom a scant ter incer snakes among ter belts too. Your garden is over-cultivated, it needs ely? You run t, a year and a ric treadmill, a solid steel barbell curl bar, a digital pedometer. Use the women away.
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of Spi?noza and Cyndi Lauper floating in t. o find all table ing at o strip off lemanly ktend to all t once, just as obviously an impossibility. urn and said, quot;Okay, guys, youve back to t; t boy alent, muttered Manet to Monet one afternoon in t Renoir. quot;Out, out, out,quot; ed, and ttered, giggling. One nigs to suck, stered Romulus. get a part of her.
SIMON and Dore sitting in tche radio making music.
quot;t music late at nig; Dore said. quot;;
quot;ts Keitt.quot;
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quot;Piano player. Very famous.quot;
quot;s t funny noise?quot;
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quot;O of different stuff, dont you. ;
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quot;You dont look it. You look maybe fifty, fifty-one. t was good c;
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quot;Norocution.quot;
quot;I read about it.quot;
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quot;At nig cories, .quot;
quot;t do it in time?quot;
quot;Under cover of nig realize tent.quot;
quot;If I ;
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quot;You dont to kno;
quot;Simon. Youre not a serious man.quot;
quot;Yes I am.quot;
Dore likes to scold people. does not meet ions for appropriate behavior, Dore scolds.
quot;Simon youre not supposed to talk to Anne like t.quot;
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quot;Okay, s o explain it to ;
quot;as I pompous?quot;
quot;Not more t incredulous look. Like you couldnt believe t somebodyd never ;
quot;It ;
quot;Simon you are t;
quot;t does not absolve you of ty of kno;
quot;ts pompous. ts truly pompous. ts just alking about. And anot;
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quot; joke about George Gers;
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quot;Anne didnt kno make jokes t are based on people not knos not fair. Its demeaning to ;
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quot;omen dont pay t muctention to silly t. All t detail. And t;
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quot;You sake times. Just be?cause mean t ake time.quot;
quot;Okay. Good point.quot;
quot;e dont like sitting in t tacky laundromat any better t;
quot;I told you to leave it and let t.quot;
quot;You save for four peoples clot to ten dol?lars. I ts significant.quot;
quot;But you dont o do it t ;
quot;Also I met teresting guy t time. ler.quot;
ening to one of ison board sec?ond speaker. talking about drum?mers. quot;Cozy Cole comes straig of C; . quot;Big Sid Catlett. Zutty Singleton, Dave tougo go even furt to Krupa and Buddy Ric; Simon taxes tempt to extract from it ten additional drummers. Louis Bellson. St Deems. Mel Ley bass players. Our nation is ricalent, hinks.
her in California.
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quot; fool boug?quot;
quot;A friend.quot;
ands ;Youve got to boil t of it,quot; s;;
quot;Four.quot;
quot;Id give it to four ock s. Never did see t of carrots but t be good for somet in some red ;
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quot;Every little bit ; ;You and Carol speaking to eac;
quot;At intervals. S;
quot;Does s;
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quot;Make a sauce for it ock. Cs best cold. ts all I kno brisket. You could stick some red cabbage into t for t ty minutes of cooking. Also, if I ;
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quot;Do ells you,quot; she says, and hangs up.
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NE arcecture is quot;soulless,quot; Simon reads, again and again and again. rouble dis?agreeing alked about is a seventy-story curtain- like to live or ter extreme. No building saller t; on tere fa?ade pleases arcects; people like decoration, a modicum of drama. Embassies are noy as one moves deeper and deeper into t secure space, deep inside, mig. Reconcile t al detectors set up at trances of scoting ackens in supermarkets (part of ter a jeore and above tproof glass s and a guy gun. Giant concrete flos all around tol arcecture ter, civilize tral to mucectural t, Corbusier, Gropius, even rigy is not s do best, traint no at all soulless, rattage indus?try, S.O.M. notanding. t seems to he circus.
quot;Mans co glorify God and to enjoy ; says ening to a lot of Cian rock lately, finds it surprisingly robust. Jesus is rock in a weary land. ian rock. Dore comes in and s in his ear. he makes a sound like a smoke alarm.
off s been t ter of a pencil eraser. tor is a tall gloomy man . e time, able and is scraping ate es. First, four sings as ererizes the blood vessels.
Simon es a cy-five dollars. o tment from tors office, some?ty-five blocks. Its cool and cloudy out. Bumptious loudmouteenagers coming doreet, jostling people. Simon sidesteps t s em all. An absolutely beautiful oer turning. ell, hree.