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By Jack Joseph Smith

121 Exactly, It was just tqmuchs Why don’ you write a book? About what? The rise and fall of me on the way to Popeships How about ony the persecution of the Jewag I need anouther beer Dani; However, | must say thay 1 don't drink as muchi, when with yous Of course, that might i beoanse I spend to@much time gagginge Whatever’ rights I nodded my head, like an imp, went away and came back, with two more beers, ~ I must say Daniki, that 1 also find humor in my life} I lieve ninodl every battle ott of fear of losingy The entire world relates this ways I watch ny father’s business friends: from the racketers to the so called exseutives, There all scared : to death, and that's the very thing that makes them appear to be powerful, The i higher the castle, the higher the wall, Let them go on with ined! madness, I'm leavings . Maybe you ought to become a politican? i I'm headed for an islands Thich one? Honk Tahiti sound? Sounds-like an islands Maybe 111 become an artist like the Dutchuen? Could ‘be;, but he was a banker firsts It's a shame that people always have: to be driven to placess If only they could sae them first, and then go over and take a clear look at them; I've been thinking, How long do you think it would take to know everyone in this barg.Let's consider the culture differences prevailing, How long do you think it would takes Not oyly to learn the people,

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Michael jokes about books, Jews, politicians, islands, Tahiti, and Dutch artists while admitting that fear drives nearly every battle and then turning his attention to the bar itself as a whole culture that could be studied person by person.

Escape fantasies keep surfacing, but they never fully detach from the business world and social fear he says he is leaving. The sudden curiosity about knowing everyone in the bar shifts the mood from self-display to observation, as if the room itself has become material.

Claude

The subject turns to the absurdity of his father's business friends being scared to death and how that fear makes them seem powerful; Michael says he is headed for an island, maybe Honi Tahiti sound, and starts counting how long it would take to know everyone in this bar.