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The title of my yet unpublished
manuscript is Wheel in a Ditch

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because everybody
I know is trapped.

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So, you know, like
trying to pull out

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or looking over the edge into
it and they're frightened,

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or they're down in it and
they don't want to come out.

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I always sort of think of
them as struggling to get out

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and yet somehow resigned to it.

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And so I just call it Wheel in
a Ditch and this little epigraph

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before.

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And it's from somewhere among
us the stone taking notes

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by Charles Simic.

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And I won't read
the whole thing.

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I just paraphrase-- the last
two lines of the quoted thing is

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"He who cannot howl
will not find his pack."

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And that's sort of the guiding
force of my manuscript.

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"He who cannot howl
will not find his pack."

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Sometimes you howl and
you find the right--

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you find the wrong one.

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The joke's on you.

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You howl, you don't find
anybody, but once in a while

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you just scream for help
and there's someone there.

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And it's real good, you know?

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OK, I'm beginning now.

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Lois, Where's my water though?

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Oh, it's really gin.

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Now, if you can't hear
something let me know.

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I won't think that's rude.

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That kind of interruption.

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But no questions.

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If I think something's
pertinent maybe I'll tell you,

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maybe I won't.

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