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places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
I went to my place, started drinking. I snapped on the radio and found some classical music. I got my Coleman lantern out of the closet. I turned out the lights and sat playing with the...
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…
the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
Nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses d… and the landladies stare in the ha…
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...