— Don be crazy I don go in man’s drawers no, goodbye…
— Bet you don’t, had a mustache too yes last time I saw you you had a mustache…
— You very crazy goodbye…
He dug a cigarette out and lit it before he got the door closed — couldn’t have been, Christ imagine that… barely past the tub — now what, God damn it… he braced a foot — hello…? Wait who’s… ah oui. Oui c’est fait, tout… l’inventaire complet oui, même que dans le catalogue c’est warehoused hell’s the word for warehouse. Déposée oui déposée au port de Houston… non non comme owston, en Texas… comment? No, non c’est un état, Texas… Oui tout reste ahm, préparé… Argent oui on peut payer là… là oui en Texas même si vous… look écoutez damn it just pay for it and get it out of there packed ready to go tout préparé oui… you’re welcome yes pas de quoi monsieur what the hell that’s all about never heard anybody so excited…
— to join the biggest savings bank family in town…
— Problem’s I’m the God damned aerial, get in under their signal here… he crouched, dragged 24/One Pound H-O from the heap, dislodged a cache that clattered to the floor like broken glass — God’s name was that… he was down picking them up, held one to the light, another — who the hell’s been taking pictures of zebras, damn it got to get through this thing… He reached the folder, sat hunched on H-O — get through one simple sentence here, just one. Spread broadcast no, what was, at the less, at less exalted levels the symmetrical motion leveling God damn it, well God damn it what’s wrong with it like it was. Spread broadcast, this aesthetic experience of Wilde’s was leveling men’s claims to being fine what the hell’s wrong with that, homogenizing their fid, their differences didn’t write it to be read out loud anyhow, homogenizing their differences till by the time Horatio Alger died the hand at the machine had a distinctly childish cast and Ragged Dicks were everywhere, one and, one and? Supposed to be in, one in seven children between ten and fifteen out working for wages, a body thirty times the size of the U S Army for whom refinements on Cartwright’s loom and advances in the canning, in canning machinery and the glass problem’s that God damned till. Homogenizing their differences till by the time wait, shrinking, just use shrinking. Shrinking their differences till the hand at the machine had a distinctly childish yes Cartwright’s loom advances in the canning, in canning machinery and the glass industry swelled the coercion of equal opportunity to the turgid proportions of Alger’s own achievement in a hundred and nineteen works, a generation indoctrinated in the comforting assurance that virtue is always rewarded by wealth and honor nothing wrong with that is there, and a century labeled one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of man’s upward progress by one of its survivors, Reverend Newell Dwight Millis. Where the hell did I find Reverend Newell Dwight Millis Christ start checking all my sources I’ll be, have to look for those notes. For the first time government, invention, art, industry, and religion have served all the people rather than the patrician classes. The millions join in the upward march now what the hell’s wrong with all that, nothing so God damned difficult why everybody says it’s difficult, now. And while those millions saw where they were marching much as no, much the way, much the way Mark Twain saw them through a glass eye, darkly, the one eyed man, these one eyed men no. And while those millions, while those millions… he came forward to pick up a slide — never saw so God damned many zebras… he picked up another, another, finally swept the entire pile toward him and settled back against Won’t Burn, Smoke or Smell to hold them one by one up to the failing light, — antelope looks like eland where the hell did all these come from…
