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called Rorie More, they're drinking sherry by the great fireplace looking at
the picture of Rorie on the wall, the widow of Rorie is there, Johnson
suddenly says "Sir, here's what I would do to deal with the sword of Rorie
More" (the portrait shows old Rorie with his Highlands flinger) "I'd get
inside him with a dirk and stab him to my pleasure like an animal" and
bleary with hangover I realize that if there was any way for Johnson to
express his sorrow to the widow of Rorie More on the unfortunate
circumstance of his death, this was the way - So pitiful, irrational, yet
perfect - I rush down to the kitchen where Dave Wain and some others are
already eating breakfast of sorts and start reading the whole thing to the
lot of them - Jonesy looks at me askance over his pipe for being so
literary so early in the morning but I'm not being literary at all - Again
I see death, the death of Rorie More, but Johnson's response to death is
ideal and so ideal I only wish old Johnson be sitting in the kitchen now -
(Help! I'm thinking).
The call comes from Cody in Los Gatos that he lost his job tire
recapping - "Because we were there last night? " - 'No no something
entirely different, he's gotta lay off some men because his mortgage is
bleeding him and all that and some girl is tryna sue him for forging a check
and all that, so man I've got to find another job but I have to pay the rent
and everything's all fucked up down here, Oh old buddy how about, cant you,
I plead or I don't plead, or honestly, Jack, ah, lend me a hundred dollars
willya? " - 'By God Cody I'll be right down and GIVE you a hundred
dollars'... "You mean you'll really do that, listen just to lend to me is
enough but if you insist, hm" (fluttering his eyelashes over the phone
because he knows I mean it) "you old loverboy you, how you gonna get down
here there and give me that money there son and make my old heart glad" -
"I'll have Dave drive me down" - "Okay I'll pay the rent with it right away
and because it's now Friday, why, Thursday or whatever, that's right
Thursday, why I dont have to be lookin for a new job till next Monday so you
can stay here and we'll have a long weekend just goofin and talkin boy like
we used to do, I can demolish you at chess or we can watch a baseball game"
and in a whisper "and we can sneak into the City see and see my purty baby"
- So I ask Dave Wain and yes he's ready to go anytime, he's just following
me like I often follow people myself, and so off we go again.
And on the way we drop in on Monsanto at the bookstore and the idea
suddenly comes to me for Dave and me and Cody to go to the cabin and spend a
big quiet crazy weekend (how? ) but when Monsanto hears this idea he'll come
too, in fact he'll bring his little Chinese buddy Arthur Ma and we'll catch
McLear at Santa Cruz and go visit Henry Miller and suddenly another big huge
ball is begun. So there's Willie waiting down on the street, I go to the
store, buy the bottle, Dave wheels Willie around, Ron Blake and now Ben
Fagan are on the back mattress, I'm sitting in my front seat rocking chair
as now in broad afternoon we go blattin again down that Bay Shore highway to
see old Cody and Monsanto's in back of us in his jeep with Arthur Ma, two
jeeps now, and about to be two more as I'll show - Coming to Cody's in mid
afternoon, his own house already filled with visitors (local Los Gatos
literaries and all kinds of people the phone there ringing continually too)
and Cody says to Evelyn "I'll just spend a couple days with Jack and the
gang like the old days and look for a job Monday" - "Okay" - So we all go