Chap. 19

Wicker Bar, Seton Hotel was on 54th

There were 2 French babes singing dirty French songs, Tina and Janine

Bartender was a snob

Man was saying to his date that her hands were aristocratic

It killed H. (真受不了）

Flits were all over the place (gays)

H recalled how Carl Luce used to brag how much he knew about gays and lesbians

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H went out of theater

H kept thinking of the war

D.B. was in the war for four years

Whdn he came back on furloughs, he just lay on his bed all day

D.B. likened his comrades to Nazi bastards

D.B. recommended Fare Well to Arms to H

H answered he liked Great Gatsby better

H swore he'd like to sit on top of the atomic bomb when it should be fired a second time

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Then the movie was on

The duke Alec went to the war and lost his momery

He chanced to meet this publisher-girl by catching her blown hat

They both held a copy of Oliver Twist

They planned to get married after but cannot because girl got a brother who became a drunk after the war

The drunkard was a surgeon but wound his nerve during the war

Alec planned to marry girl after the autographing on his book launch

Alec's ex-fiancée Marcia appeared to lead Alec away to his mother and families

Alec didn't recover from his oblivion even welcomed by his Great Dane

Alec got hit on the head with cricket ball from children's ballgame

Alec recovered

Alec married girl happily

Marcia went with the drunken brother who got well eventually and operated successfully on Alec's mother's eyes

Grand finale was the rushing in of Great Dane's 101 puppies which was the biggest surprise to the family which everybody thought the Dane was male

H puked how phony the movie was

In the audience, a lady beside H cried throughout the film

Lady didn't even let her boy to take his pee

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H tried to call Jane again

H found he had only three names on his address book--Jane, Mr. Antolini, and pop's office

Finally H called up high-I.Q. Carl Luce

Carl told him to meet him at 54th street Wicker Bar

H got 2 hours before meeting Luce

H went to Radio City to watch movie

The music band rockets performed before the juggler, then people dragging crucifixes coming out of boxes

H recalled what he and Allie liked best was the kettle drummer in the orchestra

Allie wrote post card to the kettledrummer one time when they were small

H considered Allie's postcard to the kettledrummer never reached him anyway

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H kept thinking of buzzing Jane

One time in July Fourth ball, Jane danced with swimming team Al Pike

Al Pike studied at Choate

Al wore Lastex swimming trunk, showing off his high dive all the time

H said Al was a show-off

Jane said he was having inferiority complex

H recalled another pair

Bob Robinson had inferiority complex because his parents weren't educated at all

Roberta Walsh said Bob Robinson was conceited only because Bob said he was the captain of the debating team

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H didn't go to lunatic asylum himself

H met Phoebe and told her he was going away to Colorado farm and took a ranch job there and never to return

Next day when the two met, Phoebe packed up a suitcase to want to go along with H

H got panic and forbade her

Phoebe got sore

H finally gave way and said he was not going any more

P became peaceful and happy again

H recalled If Body Met a Body Coming through the Rye by Scottish poet Robert Burns

H distinctly expressed his lifelong wish to be a guardian of children

H set off to seek advice from his Elkton Hills English teacher Mr. Antolini

Antolini told him difference between maturity and imaturity

H got fever and was sent to the hospital

Psychoanalysis doctor came

Whole book was the self statements of H

Wilhelm Stekel 奧地利心理學家, Freud 高徒 1868-1940

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Sally was sensible enough to say no to H

H was disgusted Sally turned him down

H refused to accept life as it is

Finally H conceded and called Sally the "royal pain" up his ass

Sally cried

H kept apologizing but Sally wouldn't accept i

H regretted inviting Sally to escape

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H complained that school didn't give him anything

H got more and more excited Sally wished he tone down a little bit

H hated what people talked and what people did in school

H confirmed to Sally that she was the only reason he still stayed in New York

H complained more about the little cliques in boy schools

Sally said people earn more outside of school

H came up with the idea that Sally ran away with him to north-eastern states

Sally turned him down straight

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Sally proposed skating with intention to show off her good shape of her ass

The two went skating but kept falling over

H proposed some drinks at the bar

Waiter gave them cokes because they look minors

Sally wanted to confirm H would come to trim her Christmas tre

H started nervous habit of burning all the matches till they couldn't be held

H asked did Sally ever hate the schools

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During intermission, they went out to have a smoke

Sally met one of the Ivy League big shots called George

Sally and George started competing who could think of persons and places more

George even accompanied them a few blocks then took leave to join his friends at the bar

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