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That molish little man who had previously peered out from a scotch-bottle and tortoise shell opaque to murmur, "Bacchanal, simply bacchanal," was asleep in a lump on the floor, draped in the silk standard of the Dominican Republic...
...York: "Afternoons I work in the morgue. Mornings I pupil-teach in preparation for a teaching license. The morning teachers are far deader than the afternoon corpses. Evenings I study, periodically falling asleep over a book with the cross-eyed Siamese cat asleep at my thigh. Tomorrow I will eat three big meals and play my cello...
Lesson No. 2. Linda parried as best she could, sarcastically yawned that "all this is very curious, very original. I'm only sorry I missed it all. I was fast asleep." The go-home campaign was unnecessary anyway, she added: "I am only here because another man has my passport...
...reaches that class, Ed Stone will have an explanation. "I was like Rip Van Winkle, asleep in the hills, until I came down and Maria brought me back to life," he exclaims. "I think the work I have done in the last five years-which I consider to be the most significant architecture I have done-can be directly attributed to my happy marriage. I was on a creative plateau for several years preceding my marriage." One mark of Stone's affection: in 1954 he threw away the martini pitcher that had dogged him since college days...
...Tired. In Three Rivers, Mich., Thomas Kline, 11, smashed into a moving automobile with his bicycle, later confessed to police: "I fell asleep at the handlebars...