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By Jack Joseph Smith

Birdie Dunlap and the Hurricane Lounge The feel of cool. Jazz right there. To wind the body back Carderalle the shoemaker Cardello and the lamps The circle of the higher hand The absurd can never be a secret It is exactly what is good for the telling Epileptic Dick Walsh at the Jamestown Tavern - Pittsburgh Pirate's Gambling with borrowed money can be like selling something you can't replace Kettle Drums Genovese Sabatini Tippewa

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Jazz, gambling, borrowed money, and Pittsburgh names turn the page into a rough inventory of cool and risk.

This feels like notebook material in the best sense: compressed, local, and socially charged. The line about borrowed money and selling something you can't replace gives the whole list a sharper ethic beneath its nightlife surface.

Claude

A Hurricane Lounge list: Birdie Dunlap, Carderalle and Cardello the shoemakers, the circle of the higher hand, and the line `the absurd can never be a secret`, plus a note that gambling with borrowed money is like selling what you cannot replace.