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By Jack Joseph Smith

152 How's your beer Dandy? I questioned Dandy with a serious faces It's a pretty good kegs Tez! Tap’. AS Prettyé'.Goods'. Kegs Said Beaver,.as he ren yp behind Wleddel| Sabastian and pinched him hard on a side layer of fats. Mother fucker, Sabastian screened, What the fucking shit is the fucking _ with your fucking ass Beavers Jygt wanted to wake up your pouch Wendeif'.De de dum, de des. grew Where-are the stakes, said Dandy Murphy is going to cook them around evening time, I replieds. Murphy yhat fucking ae can't cook, You shoulan't talk about Murphy's cooking that ways Fuck you, you ass holes. Well Dandy’ after all, he is sort of sensitive about his cookings Who gives a shit?"The bum can't cooks I'1L: cook the ae aa Young Bens «KS ; ston Ho lio ko, laughed’ Dandy, You just keep your fucking hands off the fucking stekeas Ican cook stakes better than any one of you idiots, said Eyrnest the Adventurer’. Back from Miemi,. with a fresh ten} Go dig a stone; you jagg off. The Dandy is cooking the stakess That whole feeling of unreality began to pass over the area, I could see it com bining itself, and making us high, All the while Beavers friends from Notre Dame were artiving and taking cae positions around the kegaa, I went over and began collecting my money, while the stake conversation continued? I was the puppet of my own images as I gathered coins and engaged in absurdity, I returned to my little group, and asked,

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Beer, steaks, Beaver, Wendell Sabastian, Young Ben, Earnest the Adventurer, and the arriving Notre Dame boys turn the picnic into a noisy argument over who gets to cook, while Michael collects money and feels unreality settling over the place.

This is still comic, but it is already unstable, because the crowd is growing and the ritual of insult is getting more crowded and keyed up. Michael's line about being the puppet of my own images catches the way the gathering is starting to move by its own bad momentum.

Claude

Murphy drags a sweet little thing out of the bushes, Beaver's Notre Dame classmates are arriving and arranging around the keg, and the argument over who cooks the steaks — Dandy, Murphy, Young Ben, Ernest the Adventurer — escalates into written-down-so-it-is-binding decisions.