William Gaddis - J R

— Look damn it what am I supp…

— And I mean then you could like go chair that thing on healing the sick corporation with your heart batting for the poor they’d really be asthonised man like I never saw such sick companies, I mean that must be some fucking chair.

— Yes well look there’s nothing I can, I mean damn it will you just let me finish trying to…

— No like go ahead man like do you want grape drink? And like what country do they eat enchiladas I mean they’re disgusting.

— I think it’s a Mexican…

— Man like no wonder they’re stoned down there all the time…

— to join the biggest savings bank family in…

— Oh wow. I mean you get some mail.

— selection of gifts for a deposit of only two hun…

— Like do you want to know how to say scrotum in Danish?

— Well, well no I…

— Bolcheposen. I mean if you just learn all these you can…

— Look I don’t want to say scrotum in Danish what is that anyhow, who…

— Man like it’s this letter does your company do business in these foreign countries so you won’t name some product you’re selling there some dirty word by mistake. I mean you subscribe for like only three hundred dollars a year and they send you all these dirty words in all these different languages so you won’t like be going around selling dippeldutters and have…

— Look we don’t go around selling dippe, we don’t sell anything in Denmark we…

— No but look man if you subscribe to this you can like make out anyplace, I mean you go up to this Danish chick and say you brought your humørkaep would she like to kusse so she says okay if you use a dråbefanger, so you get this dråbefanger and like go someplace and få et rap. Like do you know what I said?

— No but I, I can imag…

— Like, Bast?

— What?

— I mean like did you ever watch us?

— Watch, watch who what…

— Like I mean out that back window me and Schramm, I mean like we saw your friend balling that black haired chick back there once.

— Well I, I, once I was, once I happened to look out there and I…

— Happened I mean how could you happen to look out, like I mean you have to climb over all those lampshades and papers up on those books to like even see.

— No well I, I mean once I just wanted to see if his light was on I wanted to talk to him about something and, and…

— What you saw us screwing? I mean look I’m not mad like I mean I was as good as that black haired chick where are you going.

— I just, I got some of that sauce on my fingers I wanted to…

— And like why do you keep that picture up there he had.

— What that, the Baldung? Well it’s just up there, it…

— I mean do you like those little pointy dippeldutters she’s got?

— What her, her breasts? I…

— No like that means nipples breast is, wait, brysters look I mean aren’t mine better?

— Yes well, well they’re larger yes and…

— No I mean sit down like she’s supposed to be so beautiful to be in this famous painting right? Only she’s got these little round brysters and this little round pot and look, no I mean sit here look, under here maybe she’s better under here I mean see how heavy this is like? under along here? where she’s like skinnier there I mean you are too lift your, all here I mean I got these pants too tight like tomorrow I better go down and get you some bigger ones I mean all up here and, wow like under here in front…

— Yes well, well right now they’re a little…

— Then take them off like, I mean if they’re so tight like take them

off.

— Well I, I…

— No well like then don’t. I mean like go set up your practice golf game go ahead, like go turn on your electric fucking tie rack and your…

— No no I just, it’s just the door if…

— If what I mean if that old crap comes knocking my vife my vife Mister? No like go ahead man bring him in and play golf with him if that’s what you’d…

— No no wait I…

— Like be careful man you’re going to knock over the look it’s that wire will you like take that thing out of your ear? I mean there’s no big hurry now…

— No but, look all these feath…

— I mean here’s where I wish I was all nice and firm like you are all under, what like did that hurt?

— No but…

— I mean like these must be the bolches in like this is the posen, like I mean we could both learn everything in all these different languages and…

— Yes but look all these feathers can’t you, couldn’t you just take it…

— No but like listen, I mean we had this poem once by this big sea water I mean what was her name, like listen to it in there…

— Yes Min, Minnehaha in, in Hia…

— No here get your, no like this way I mean it’s real narrow get your, there. I mean like aren’t mine like do you really like her little pointy dippel oh…

— Whose Minne…

— No like, hers in the, in the…

— No I…

— Yes right there, like that like that yes…

— Like, there and…?

— Yes oh, oh and here, yes like, yes like that yes and, right there yes wait oh…

— But, wait let me, let me move my…

— Oh like there yes and, oh… you’re wait get here and, and… not so, not so oh…! like you’re, you’re built pretty big for not so oh…! yes, yes put… yes like not so hurts not so oh, oh…

— I, I can’t…

— Wait don’t oh! oh oh oh… oh

— highest yield on your savings it’s time to join the biggest savings bank family in town…

— Oh wow.

— I, I didn’t mean to hurt…

— Wait like get something it’s going all down my, wait move your… she reached the brown paper, — I mean my poor fisse, man…

— Well I, I didn’t…

— And I mean wait let me get my, man like that last page you just did those fucking enchilavies went all over it.

— No that’s all right I’m, I’ll just do it over again…

A hand rose to scratch. — Like what do you want to do now.

— Well nothing I, I guess I’d better copy that page over and get back to…

— Like I mean you never talk. I mean you’re not very interesting you know? I mean like all these other people and like Al I mean they all talk only with us I mean I always have to do all the talking, you know?

— Yes but, I mean when I’m trying to work and not thinking about something to talk about I…

— Man like you always think you’re trying to work and like you never have something to talk about, I mean like except you’re pretty big in the sack there you’re like not very interesting.

— Well why should I be interesting! I mean, I mean I want my work to be interesting but why do I have to be interesting! I mean everybody’s trying to be interesting let them I’m just, I’m just doing something I have to do so I can try to do what I hope I…

— Like then what about Schramm I mean you were always talking to Schramm, like you just said you…

— No I didn’t really I, he talked and I…

— Man like he hardly talked at all I mean you don’t know what it was like with him, like with him you never knew what’s coming next like this time he couldn’t make it and he jumps off the bed and grabs this pencil and throws it down and it, I mean like that’s why I hate all these fucking sharp pencils you’ve got around here you know?

— Yes that was terrible I, I didn’t even know you were there when he…

— Man I don’t want to talk about it! The feathers went off in a heap, a hand came up, scratching a loin.

— No I, I didn’t mean…

— Then like don’t talk about it… and the hand came up to dig in the shirt pocket as she stood, — I mean there’s the telephone again, like I mean all it does is rings…