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RV 141 (BIG SUR141) what’s Fagan doing tonight”—“Oh he’s sitting in his room writing something, calls it his GOOFBOOK, has big wild drawings in it, and Lex Pascal is drunk again and the music is playing and I’m real sad and I’m glad you called”—“You like me Dave?”—“I aint got nothin else to do, kid”—“But you really have somethin else to do really?”—“Lissen never mind, I’ll be up, you call Monsanto right away tho because we also gotta get the corral gate keys from him”—“I’m glad I know you Dave”—“Me too Jack”—“Why?”—“Maybe I wanted to stand on my head in the snow to prove it but I do, am glad, will be glad, after all that’s right there’s nothing else for us to do but solve these damn problems and I’ve got one right here in my pants for Romana”—“But that’s so sick and tired to call life a problem that can be solved”—“Yes but I’m just repeating what I read in the dead pigeon textbooks”—“But Dave I love you”—“Okay Ill be right over.”