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THE DEEP, BLACK, EMPTY TERRIBLE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD
11--- and you, fantasy Frank, and
dreamland Dora, and hallucination
Harold, and delution Dick, and
nightmare Ned
What is it, how do you say it, what
doss it mean, what's the word,
that miracle thing, the thing that
can't be so, quote, unquote, but
just the same it's true
1. AM I RIGHT OR WRONG?
'Forget the answers that give no
reason, forget the reasons
that do not explain.'
A thin man sits modestly on
a bare park bench, one bony
leg folded over the other, his
veiny hands resting in h4s
sunken lap. The long face is
deeply lined but peaceful, the
old shoes are seamy but polished, jailma.
the worn trousers are glossy
but pressed. There isn't the.
faintest worry in the shrewd
blue eyes.)
yer
People ain't nacheral. Dey eat too much. Y. know, Z stanaoh kin hold
maybe a pint. De majority uh people cram a whole quart into IpMhat
happens? Neuritis, artSritis, nelfritis, colitis an' so forth. Take
de question uh sex. Majority uh people are sex poivoits. Ovuhdo it.
Can't stay away fram de wife. Got to adulterate her. Animals don't
ad
do dat, insects feeder. It ain't nacheral. Ye kin sit nearikfire,
ye don' have to lay right in it, do yuh? Ye kin smell poison, canoha,
ye don' have to go ahead an' drink it. Yen drink water, ye don'
have to drawn in it. Am I right or wrong? Mos' nacheral place in de
woil' is de Caribbeans. Plenty a froot an yuh kin nevuh get constipated.
dere six yeehs ago. Before dat I Ina just an honest dope.
Yuh kmow, work allLtime, worryin and take everything serious. Well,
suddenly I started in usin my eyes an I saw an awful lot, I'm tellin
yiefir instance, I discovered de less a guy works the more money
he's makin. Aftuh a while I started in workin less, see? figgered
you know de way I figgered. But sumthin went wrongs mid de idea. De less
I woiked de less I wuz makin. But I still figgered de same way. So I
enuff,
tried it again. I woiked less n less. An sure sigunk, I got less. Well,
finally, I woiked less n less n less, and den I stopped altogether. Ism
stubborn. You know. Once I get an idea, I don' let go. So I got fired.
p z hbukat...,
So I thought I'd 14aw de stink off and I goes dawn to de Caribbeew oons
I can Pm emiusimigo to work on dat problem again. 11Jta find me anodder
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job an find /nu em
_ot what wrong mid mw(syst.$o f s I ita s ey\i
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right; t_i agte mos' =choral way of all is like de way I'm doinhosi.
Now dots it str114‘ ytava
Not woikin at all. It' de most hygienic. illotmkofcrow4tizie, am/I right or
all
wrong?