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Dance now, says Feiffer, pay the piper later. It is a terrible price. Patsy is murdered in Alfred's arms by an anonymous sniper, and a grisly, incoherent tale of urban warfare ensues. Doors are padlocked, windows are shuttered, rifles are broken out. A paranoid detective (Alan Arkin) tries to solve Patsy's murder -and 344 other unsolved killings -amid drumfire volleys of sniper fire. Alfred lapses into catatonia, reviving just in time to command a witless, meaningless shooting spree...
...First, aspect: "You go down there with your hair stickin' out!" Second, mien: "Don't say nothing. You just glare." Then, tactics−which include bringing along some ringer Samoans who all look ten feet tall. One of Wolfe's master mau-mauers, like some Pied Piper of litterbugs, threatens to devastate city hall at the head of a horde of kids all armed with packages of sticky candy and plenty of wrappers. Another mau-mau Ph.D. didn't even need a gang. He would just turn up at the OEO office with a crocus sack...
Swimming in Grapes. In the Champagne district, the vines are more bountiful than at any other time in this century. The profusion of Pinot Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and other Champagne grapes sometimes led to confusion among the vintners. Moët and Chandon and Piper-Heidsieck had to rent Marne River barges to store their vinous overflow. Others used abandoned water towers and even swimming pools. Assessments of the size and quality of the grape crop in other wine districts were only slightly less heady. A spokesman for the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, the industry...
...Introduction to the Songs of Innocence," a child-spirit appears before the poet-piper, listens to his songs, and weeps to hear the gleeful and unself-consciously played music. In the "Songs of Innocence," the poet claims gleefully to create in order to recapture the spontaneity and ecstasy of childhood. The act of writing is secondary to the joyousness of the Singer's entire being and it is the spirit, not his own ego, that commands him to record his intuitive inspiration...
...Piper sit thee down and write in a book that all may read-So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed. And I made a rural pen And I stain'd the water clear And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear...