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Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1968)

Story (1968)

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Notes of a Dirty Old Man

jesus, mother, it was terrible—here they came pounding out of the vast cuntholes in the earth spinning me about with my paper suitcase up near Times Square. I finally managed to ask one of them where the Village was and when I got to the Village I found a room and when I opened my wine bottle and took off my shoes I found that the room had an easel, but I wasn't a painter, just a kid looking for luck, and I sat behind the easel and drank my wine and looked out the dirty window. when I went out to get another bottle of wine I saw this young guy standing in a silk bathrobe. he wore a beret and sandals, had a half-diseased beard and spoke into the hall phone: "oh, yes yes, darling, I must see you, oh yes, I must!"...

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