The Singing Detective
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That out-the-side
-of-your-mouth

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kind of stuff.
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That down-these-mean-streets
kind of stuff.

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l'm sorry.
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What kind of stuff?
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You know, my feeling is that,
um...

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now that... after l've read
some of your prose...

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Ho, ho, hee, hee.
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...my feeling is
that, uh, you didn't

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start out to write in this way.
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What would you
have preferred

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to have written?
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What, if l had the talent,
you mean?

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No, of course l don't mean that.
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No, go ahead, be a critic.
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You got the face for it.
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lf you like, all right.
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Uh, if you had the talent.
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lf l had the talent,
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one-liners for Michael Jackson,
two-liners for Helen Keller,

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if it wouldn't be stretching her
too much.

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Maybe traffic citations
for Ted Kennedy.

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Who knows?
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lt's just one word
after another.

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That's where all the problems
of the world start:

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the next goddamn word.
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lt's not incriminating.
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What isn't?
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Telling me what you
would prefer to write.

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l would like to have praised
a loving God

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and all His Loving Creation...
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Yes.
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...and to have seen...
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hosts of translucent angels
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ascending spinning shafts
of golden light

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to the deep blue caverns
of heaven.

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Hell, they'd all have
these massive titties,

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wouldn't they?
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Well, here's one part here
that doesn't seem to... fit in


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