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He was crying softly. He draws it out, slowly. I was very nearly the only victim ofthe earthquake to die from animal strangulation. It was on fire.

And the rain was not about to let up; it now came sheeting down,traveling in a curtain through the alley. But he was a certain barometer of bums, as well. It drove Kline bananas. The epigram to “Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage” (1977) translates as “What pains ustrains us.