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By Jack Joseph Smith
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smooth smile, while his eyes remained aquainted:
with the sensation at the last border of getting ,
caught. The man on the corner of the snake streets
walked'by the blue shees: of West Hollywood Riad beew
cool, He was operating the most unusual service:
station Prankster had ever seen, and they had J
driven out of that territory wire orippiod With
obvious uadiens than the beach, Prankster's eyes
peeredout the windew dewn inte the canyon seeing,
briefly a coveted: Southern California stream But
hig neck: did not turn, so te keep the vibration of
the humans withim the car preeisely on free-for=
ward movement, They had avoided arrest through
aceident, and other such diseases: of the main city:.
streets, the freeway, and lastly, the Pacifica Ccast .
highways Now, the-others appeared carefrees as if
the winding road‘ liad transcended’ them, and a magic .
carpeted’ car inte-a zone-Beyond the repercussions ,
of wie neem! to, Prankster, the slightest
motion outside-the censintration of (this is still)
a deal) could spoil the act of "making it" down to
the last line of reserved strain before-enterance
inte delirious paranoias ;
Davenport took the spoon away from his nose, and
in moments it was handed back over to him from the