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ten and even twenty five years ago but now in 1960 is a pose, in fact I dug
him as a con man conning Dave (tho for what, I don't know) - But Dave Wain
that lean rangy red head Welchman with his penchant for going off in Willie
to fish in the Rogue River up in Oregon where he knows an abandoned mining
camp, or for blattin around the desert roads, for suddenly reappearing in
town to get drunk, and a marvelous poet himself, has that certain something
that young hip teenagers probably wanta imitate - For one thing is one of
the world's best talkers, and funny too - As I'll show - It was he and
George Baso who hit on the fantastically simple truth that everybody in
America was walking around with a dirty behind, but everybody, because the
ancient ritual of washing with water after the toilet had not occurred in
all the modern antisepticism - Says Dave "People in America have all these
racks of dry-cleaned clothes like you say on their trips, they spatter Eau
de Cologne all over themselves, they wear Ban and Aid or whatever it is
under their armpits, they get aghast to see a spot on a shirt or a dress,
they probably change underwear and socks maybe even twice a day, they go
around all puffed up and insolent thinking themselves the cleanest people on
earth and they're walkin around with dirty azzoles - Isnt that amazing?
give me a little nip on that tit" he says reaching for my drink so I order
two more, I've been engrossed, Dave can order all the drinks he wants
anytime, "The President of the United States, the big ministers of state,
the great bishops and shmishops and big shots everywhere, down to the lowest
factory worker with all his fierce pride, movie stars, executives and great
engineers and presidents of law firms and advertising firms with silk shirts
and neckties and great expensive traveling cases in which they place these
various expensive English imported hair brushes and shaving gear and pomades
and perfumes are all walking around with dirty azzoles! All you gotta do is
simply wash yourself with soap and water! it hasnt occurred to anybody in
America at all! it's one of the funniest things I've ever heard of! dont you
think it's marvelous that we're being called filthy unwashed beatniks but
we're the only ones walkin around with clean azzoles? " - The whole azzole
shot in fact had spread swiftly and everybody I knew and Dave knew from
coast to coast had embarked on this great crusade which I must say is a good
one - In fact in Big Sur I'd instituted a shelf in Monsanto's outhouse
where the soap must be kept and everyone had to bring a can of water there
on each trip - Monsanto hadn't heard about it yet, "Do you realize that
until we tell poor Lorenzo Monsanto the famous writer that he is walking
around with a dirty azzole he will be doing just that? " - "Let's go tell
him right now! " - "Why of course if we wait another minute
... and besides do you know what it does to people to walk around with
a dirty azzole? it leaves a great yawning guilt that they cant understand
all day, they go to work all cleaned up in the morning and you can smell all
that freshly laundered clothes and Eau de Cologne in the commute train yet
there's something gnawing at them, something's wrong, they know something's
wrong they don't know just what! " - We rush to tell Monsanto at once in
the book store around the corner. By now we're beginning to feel great...
Fagan has retired saying typically "Okay you guys go ahead and get drunk,
I'm goin home and spend a quiet evening in a hot bath with a book" "Home" is
also where Dave Wain and Ron Blake live - It's an old rooming house of four
stories on the edge of the Negro district of San Francisco where Dave, Ben,