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| Henri Michaux | |||||||||||
| I can hardly ever see anyone without fighting him. Others prefer interior monologue. Not me. I'd rather fight.
There are some guys who sit down facing me in the restaurant and they don't say anything, they stay around a while, because they've decided to eat. Here's one. I grab him, bang. I regrab him, bang. I hang him up on the coat hook. I unhook him. I hang him up again. I re-unhook him. I lay him out on the table, I mash him and choke him. I smear him, I inundate him. He comes to. I rinse him off, I stretch him out (I'm starting to get on my own nerves, this has got to stop), I squash him, I put the screws to him, I condense him and insert him into my glass, and ostentatiously pitch the contents onto the ground, and say to the waiter, "Get me a clean glass." But I feel ill, I pay the check promptly and I get out. |
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