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was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it was New York and beautifullysnowing. Inside snug and evil. the slobbering walls filthily push witlesscreases of screaming warmth chuck pil- lows are noise funnily swallowsswallowing revolv- ingly pompous a the swallowed mottle with smooth ora but of rapidly goes gobs the and of flecks of and a chatter sobbingsintersect with which distinct disks of graceful oath, upsoarings thebreak on ceiling- flatness the Bar.tinking luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyishwetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps plus slushof foam knocked off and a faint piddle-of-drops she says I ploc spittlewhat the lands thaz me kid in no sir hopping sawdust you kiddo he’s apalping wreaths of badly Yep cigars who jim him why gluey grins toppletogether eyes pout gestures stickily point made glints squinting who’sa wink bum-nothing and money fuzzily mouths take big wobbly foot-stepsevery goggle cent of it get out ears dribbles soft right old fellerbelch the chap hic sum- more eh chuckles skulch. . . . and i was sitting in the din thinking drinking the ale, which neverlets you grow old blinking at the low ceiling my being pleasantly waspunctuated by the al- ways retchings of a worthless lamp. when With a minute terrif iceffortone dirty squeal of soiling lightyanKing from bushy obscurity a bald greenish foetal head established Itsuddenly upon the huge neck around whose unwashed sonorous muscle thefilth of a collar hung gently. (spattered)by this instant of semiluminous nausea A vastwordless nondescript genie of trunk trickled firm- ly in to oneexactly-mutilated ghost of a chair, a;domeshaped interval of complete plasticity,shoul- ders,sprouted theextraordinary arms through an an- gle of ridiculous velocity commentingupon an un- clean table.and,whose distended immense Both paws slowlyloved a dinted mug gone Darkness it was so near to me, i ask of shad- ow won’t you have adrink? (the eternal perpetual question) Inside snugandevil. i was sitting in mcsorley’s It,did not answer. outside.(it was New York and beautifully,snowing. . . .
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