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PARTISAN REVIEW
I would simply open
a book
any book!
over
the place
(usually romantic novels
or classical tragedies)
and copy whole passages
verbatim etlitteratim
throwing in a few foreign words here and there
(usually French words)
those guys didn't know the difference
that's for sure
and the more
I
gave them the more they loved
IT
Ah
What creativity
What spirit of creativity I was
in those days
10
What inspirations
banging every night on myoid beat up
OLIVETTI
(with two fingers)
sometimes telling one broad what I was supposed to say
to another one
sometimes even getting the letters confused
the names all mixed up
sometimes sending a letter that was supposed to go to a girl in
Nebraska
to a girl in
Arkansas
But who cared
who gave a shit
it kept going (full blast) and they all loved me for it both
the guys in my ourfit
and the girls in all the little hicktowns of
AMERICA
