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Being of the city, of the only city in the world and no place like Broadway anywhere, I used to walk up and down staring at the floodlit hams and other delicacies1. I was a schizerino from the sole of my boots to the tips of my hair. I lived exclusively in the gerundive, which I understood only in Latin. Long before I had read other in the Black BookI was cohabiting with Hilda, the giant cauliflower of my dreams. We traversed all the morganatic diseases together and a few which were ex cathedra.We dwelt in the carcass of the instincts and were nourished by ganglionic memories. There was never auniverse, but millions and billions of universes, all of them put together no bigger than a pinhead. It was a vegetal sleep in the wilderness2 of the mind. It was the past, which alone comprises eternity3. Amidst the fauna4 and flora5 of my dreams I would hear long distance calling. Messages were dropped on my table by the deformed6 and the epileptic. Hans Castorp would call sometimes and together we would commit innocent crimes. Or, if it were a bright freezing day. I would do a turn in the velodrome with my Presto7 bike from Chemnitz, Bohemia.
Best of all was the skeleton dance. I would first wash all my parts at the sink, change my linen8, shave, powder, comb my hair, don my dancing pumps. Feeling abnormally light inside and out I would wind in and out of the crowd for a time to get the proper human rhythm, the weight and substance of flesh. Then I would make a beeline for the dance floor, grab a hunk of giddy flesh and begin the autumnal pirouette. It was like that I walked into the hairy Greek's place one night and ran smack10 into her. She seemed blue-black, white as chalk, ageless. There was not just the flow to and from, but the endless chute, the
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delicacies
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eternity
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voluptuousness
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lava
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periphery
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delirium
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prance
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extremities
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mangled
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bellowing
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founders
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cholera
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delusions
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intercourse
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lull
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nuptial
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clam
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croaking
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cemetery
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huddled
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embryo
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spawn
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standing
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trolley
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ideological
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solidified
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cults
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bliss
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