VERONICA is boung on rampoline. Dore is reading Floh Anne.

        "Youre about as tender as a sea lion," s;;

        "I remember    before."

        " make you feel    t;

        "Nervous."

        "ere very tolerant."

        "I see t. s t w;

        "Veronica."

        "Is s?"

        "S mindless    trampoline. S a prob?lem    t s;

        "Makes me nervous."

        "Everyt;

        "true."

        "Is tasy for you? tuation?"

        "Its not a fantasy, is it."

        "It ructure of a male fantasy."

        "t possible o look at it."

        "ell scre;

        "Our purpose ."

        Surns    in long sions.

        "o sc;

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        " did you learn?"

        "Lots of important stuff. Almost everybody Ive met since    in my first-grade class. Maybe ty-t class. Every type represented. o somebody    in my first-grade class I ted a rare bird."

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        "t feel t;

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        "Blackeyed peas?"

        "I love blackeyed peas."

        "Creens."

        "Fine."

        "ell need some    likker."

        "try tore."

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        "Simon, Im trying to do t."

        "I kno;

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        " are you going to do after ; she asks.

        "Go back to ;

        "t    to do?"

        "ork is Gods best iion. Keeps you all seized up and ied."

        "I wis;

        "You could alo sc;

        "I dont like standing in lines."

        "I kno of my standing-in-line capacity."

        "But suppose youre at a reception and yoing to meet t and t;

        "Im not in a o meet t. If s to e over and tle guacamole dip, ts fine. My door is al;

        "You dont care about anyt;

        "Listening to t;

        "You do love your radios."

        "Im tting anoterproof jobs for t;

        "I like a quiet reflective bat;

        "Ill e in and put toads in ter."

        " toads in Ney?"

        "toad store. t big toads, little toads, oads, no-oads --"

        "Its a great city."

        "Its a great argument for cities."

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        SIMON and Dore sitting in tche radio making music.

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        "Piano player. Very famous."

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        "You dont    to kno;

        "Simon. Youre not a serious man."

        "Yes I am."

        Dore likes to scold people.    does not meet ions for appropriate behavior, Dore scolds.

        "Simon youre not supposed to talk to Anne like t."

        "Like ;

        "You ;

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        "Not more t    incredulous look. Like you couldnt believe t somebodyd never ;

        "It ;

        "Simon you are t;

        "t does not absolve you of ty of kno;

        "ts pompous. ts truly pompous. ts just alking about. And anot;

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        " joke about Geers;

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        "omen dont pay t mution to silly t. All t detail. And t;

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        "You sake times. Just be?cause    mean t ake time."

        "Okay. Good point."

        "e dont like sitting in t tacky laundromat aer t;

        "I told you to leave it a."

        "You save for four peoples clot to ten dol?lars. I ts signifit."

        "But you dont o do it t ;

        "Also I met teresting guy t time. ler."

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        her in California.

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        "A friend."

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        "Four."

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        "At intervals. S;

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        "Do ells you," she says, and hangs up.

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        NE arcecture is "soulless," Simon reads, again and again and again. rouble dis?agreeing alked about is a seventy-story curtain- like to live or    ter extreme. No building saller t; on tere fa?ade pleases arcects; people like decoration, a modicum of drama. Embassies are noy as one moves deeper and deeper into t secure space, deep inside, mig. Recile t al detectors set up at trances of sg as in supermarkets (part of ter a jeore and above tproof glass s and a guy gun. Giant crete flos all around tol    arcecture ter, civilize tral to mucectural t, Corbusier, Gropius, even rigy is not s do best, traint no at all soulless, rattage indus?try, S.O.M. notanding. t seems to he circus.

        "Mans co glorify God and to enjoy ; says ening to a lot of    rock lately, finds it surprisingly robust. Jesus is ro a weary land. ian rock. Dore es in and s in his ear. he makes a sound like a smoke alarm.

        off s been t ter of a pencil eraser. tor is a tall gloomy man .    e time, able and is scraping ate es. First, four sings as ererizes the blood vessels.

        Simon es a cy-five dollars. o tment from tors office, some?ty-five blocks. Its cool and cloudy out. Bumptious loudmouteenagers ing doreet, jostling people. Simon sidesteps t s em all. An absolutely beautiful oer    turning. ell, hree.
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