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RV 140 (BIG SUR140) big brunette Romana that Rumanian madwoman and pack her in Willie and come down to Billie’s here and pick us up, we’ll pack while you’s en route, honey’s on, and we’ll all go spend two weeks of bliss in Monsanto’s cabin”—“Does Monsanto agree?”—“I’ll call him right now and ask him, he’ll say sure”—“Well I thought I’d be painting Romana’s wall tomorrow but maybe I’d a just got drunk doin that anyway: sure you wanta do all this now?”—“Yes yeh yeh, come on—“And I can bring Romana?”—“Yes but why not?”—“And what’s the purpose of all this?”—“Ah Daddy, maybe just to see you again and we can talk about purposes anywhere: you wanta go on a lecture tour to Utah university and Brown university and tell the well scrubbed kids?”—“Scrubbed with what?”—“Scrubbed with hopeless perfection of pioneer puritan hope that leaves nothing but dead pigeons to look at?”—“Okay I’ll be right out first I gotta get Willie’s tank filled up and an oil change too”—“I’ll pay you when you get here”—“I heard you were eloping with Billie”—“Who told you that?”—“It was in the paper today”—“Well we’ll start off by getting into Willie again and dont bring Ron Blake, well be just two couples dig?”—“Yeh—and lissen I’ll bring my surf castin rod and catch some fish down there”—“We’ll have a ball—and listen Dave I’m grateful you’re free and willing to drive us down there, I’m down in the mouth, I’ve been sitting here for a week drinking and the chair broke and the fish died and I am all screwed up again”—“Well you shouldnt ought drink that sweet stuff all the time and you never eat”—“But that’s not the real trouble”—“Well we’ll decide what the real trouble is”—“That’s right”—“Methinks the real trouble is those pigeons”—“Why?”—“I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you’d love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are?”—“But that’s only a quote from Buddha”—“Yeh, but the girls didn’t expect all that”—“How ya feeling Dave?