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OK, I'm going to read from--

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or I'll begin reading
from a novel which I just

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finished, which is called,
The Return of Painting.

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So I'm picking up
someplace in the middle.

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And I'll actually
skip at some point,

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but I won't bother you with
telling you about that.

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OK, this is from The
Return of Painting.

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"Man gives her lift,
not known very well.

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Driving night across the
long length of the city,

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him speaking on the way.

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Oh, it's a long time since
she'd met anybody friendly then.

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And coming gently,
there is no time

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to have been at them to the
red lights, all along the way,

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slows low, putting
on the gas, and went

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through every red light on
the street of the entire city.

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When he'd slowed at one
in gutted-out buildings

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for blocks, there's a poor man
out walking with a small cat

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on a leash and jerking it.

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And the man in the car
slows, stepping on the gas

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and goes through
the red light there.

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Flying fish in the blue
ocean, the freighter going,

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whales in the swells or
still, already having died,

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seen from the side
of one of the ships.

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In mid-ocean, many so
that they're amongst them.

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Chugging of the engine,
but a deep chugging

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from the freighter
slowing or stopping

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amidst the blood
clouds in swells

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from the flagged, floating
bodies of the creatures

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that are being harpooned.

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That's occurring.

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A stowaway is sent in a
rowboat from the freighter

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to the other ship.

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The stowaway or a whaler
who falls out of the rowboat

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into the high swells of waves.

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The man who'd fallen
from the boat waving,

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but not so as to be picked
up by them, which he is.

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Lying on the rubber
inflated mattress raft

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in the dark city
apartment, person alone.

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People calling out
who are yelling

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at night, who are ordinary
people, or many, many

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all the way along the street in
poor clothes asking for money.

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One man happened to
be given three dimes,

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which were in the
pocket of the person who

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is later lying asleep deeply
on the rubber mattress raft--

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the man looking so
defeated and disappointed

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by the money that had
been given to him.

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Before the rubber raft mattress,
her going into the department

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store.

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On the mattress raft, sleeping
deeply as if sunken much later

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at a different time.

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From them there
had been the crowd

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of people at the front
entrance, near subway entrance,

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asking for money.

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A man on a sled with no legs
at the door of the department

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store, which was merely that
with the appearance of cities

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in it that was
really beautiful--

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merely commercial as
beautiful, and could not

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be done otherwise.

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The float mattress
raft on the floor,

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the person in a deep sleep on
it, as that being the same,

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but in bitter cold.

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Her face, stung by the freezing
wind, walking at night.

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And people begging on
the street in that.

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Ordinary other people calling
out at night or yelling things.

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Heard from the person
being on the float

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mattress raft, the flesh machine
body stretched out straight.

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Balmy, the man crapping,
squatting by the side

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as the train goes by,
seen from his back.

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Lily bogs in the city
with small, dark pigs

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floating in them.

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But it's bitterly
cold outside, not

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from lying on the mattress
floor raft or people out, which

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is the same, which is that.

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People squatting
outside or washing,

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seen from riding in the bus.

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So above-- people,
many, all along

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the street with their backs
to the cars and bathing,

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wet with soap,
delicately from spigots

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that would be out from a wall.

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Many on the street.

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Woman crapping on the sidewalk
near a restaurant in front

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of which she lives--

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out, living there.

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Going into the lobby, where
the people who are really chic

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or who've been met won't
speak to a person who's

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not important.

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Class-ridden, asinine,
really destroyed by them.

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Who grew up in the forest
and emerged from it

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a singer because he had
been talking with the birds

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throughout his childhood.

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Going on the subway,
which stops and slows,

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before that on the
mattress raft float lying,

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only shuts down
to downtown trains

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from a man who's walking
on the track, obstructing.

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Everywhere, people around,
shivering in the freezing wind,

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asking for money.

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