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.