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‘You ain’t got no class. Get out.’
Tankhauser thought about that. It was a long, difficult way from one end of the thought to the other.
Then he swore and stood up with all the grace of a drunken camel. He pulled Goonhilda to her feet. They
and the others stumbled from the room. A moment later, I heard motorcycle engines.
I said, ‘You guys are good. I wish I’d thought of telling those goons to get out.’
‘It don’t work for everybody,’ Tiger said and laughed. It was the wild, untutored laugh of an idiot.
Spike told him to shut up, and he did.
‘We’re still looking for Heavenly Daise,’ Spike said.
‘It’s the national pastime. Bigger than baseball.’
‘You’re a funny guy. You know what else is funny? That every place we look for her, you’re right
there too.’
‘Funny,’ Tiger said.
‘We all agree. It’s funny.’
Sylvia came into the room and said, ‘There you are, Zoot...!’ She and the gorillas saw each other at
the same moment. The guns wavered, and I jumped for Spike, hoping to knock him against the other
two. I knocked Spike’s pistol aside as he fired it. Sylvia shrieked and clutched her arm, where a red
flower began to bloom. She wilted to the floor. ‘Sylvia!’ I cried. I had Spike by his gun wrist and one
shoulder. I had him the way a flea has a dog.



MEL GILDEN

SURFING SAMURAI
ROBOTS
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