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SEA SEA RIDER	A
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The man who owned the bookstore was not magic He was not a	B
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three legged crow on the dandelion side of the mountain	C
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He was of course a Jew a retired merchant seaman	C
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who had been torpedoed in the North Atlantic and floated	D
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there day after day until death did not want him He had a	B
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young wife a heart attack a Volkswagen and a home in	E
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Marin County He liked the works of George Orwell Richard	F
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Aldington and Edmund Wilson	C
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He learned about life at sixteen first from Dostoevsky	G
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and then from the whores of New Orleans	H
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The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards	I
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Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars	J
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Most of the kooks were out of print and no one wanted to	K
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read them any more and the people who had read the books	L
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had died or forgotten about them but through the organic	M
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process of music the books had become virgins again They	N
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wore their ancient copyrights like new maidenheads	L
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I went to the bookstore in the afternoons after I got off	O
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work during that terrible year of	P
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He had a kitchen in the back of the store and he brewed	Q
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cups of thick Turkish coffee in a copper pan I drank coffee	G
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and read old books and waited for the year to end He had a	B
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small room above the kitchen	C
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It looked down on the bookstore and had Chinese screens	L
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in front of it The room contained a couch a glass cabinet	R
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with Chinese things in it and a table and three chairs There	S
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was a tiny bathroom fastened like a watch fob to the room	T
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I was sitting on a stool in the bookstore one afternoon	U
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reading a book that was in the shape of a chalice The book	V
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had clear pages like gin and the first page in the book read	W
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Billy	G
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the Kid	X
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born	Y
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November	A
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in	E
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New York	Z
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City	G
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The owner of the bookstore came up to me and put his	L
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arm on my shoulder and said Would you like to get laid	A2
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His voice was very kind	B2
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No I said	W
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You're wrong he said and then without saying anything	C2
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else he went out in front of the bookstore and stopped a pair	S
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of total strangers a man and a woman He talked to them for	D2
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a few moments I couldn't hear what he was saying He pointed	D
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at me in the bookstore The woman nodded her head and	E2
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then the man nodded his head	W
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They came into the bookstore	D2
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I was embarrassed I could not leave the bookstore because	L
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they were entering by the only door so I decided to go	F2
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upstairs and go to the toilet I got up abruptly and walked	G2
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to the back of the bookstore and went upstairs to the bathroom	T
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and they followed after me I could hear them on the stairs	L
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I waited for a long time in the bathroom and they waited	D
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an equally long time in the other room They never spoke	H2
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When I came out of the bathroom the woman was lying naked	D
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on the couch and the man was sitting in a chair with his	L
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hat on his lap	I2
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Don't worry about him the girl said These things	L
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make no difference to him He's rich He has Rolls	L
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Royces The girl was very pretty and her body was like a	B
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clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks	L
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of bone and hidden nerves	L
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Come to me she said And come inside me for we are	J2
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Aquarius and I love you	K
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I looked at the man sitting in the chair He was not smiling	C2
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and he did not look sad	K2
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I took off my shoes and all my clothes The man did not	L2
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say a word	F
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The girl's body moved ever so slightly from side to side	M2
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There was nothing else I could do for my body was like	N2
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birds sitting on a telephone wire strung out down the world	O2
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clouds tossing the wires carefully	G
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I laid the girl	P2
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It was like the eternal th second when it becomes a minute	R
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and then looks kind of sheepish	Q2
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Good the girl said and kissed me on the face	L
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The man sat there without speaking or moving or sending	C2
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out any emotion into the room I guess he was rich and owned	R2
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Rolls Royces	L
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Afterwards the girl got dressed and she and the man left	S2
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They walked down the stairs and on their way out I heard	F
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him say his first words	L
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Would you like to go to Emie's for dinner	A
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I don't know the girl said It's a little early to think	T2
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about dinner	A
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Then I heard the door close and they were gone I got	L2
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dressed and went downstairs The flesh about my body felt	U2
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soft and relaxed like an experiment in functional background	V2
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music	M
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The owner of the bookstore was sitting at his desk behind	B2
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the counter I' tell you what happened up there he said	W
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in a beautiful anti three legged crow voice in an anti dandelion	C
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side of the mountain voice	L
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What I said	W
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You fought in the Spanish Civil War You were a young	W2
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Communist from Cleveland Ohio She was a painter A New	K
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York Jew who was sightseeing in the Spanish Civil War as if	X2
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it were the Mardi Gras in New Orleans being acted out by	Y2
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Greek statues	L
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She was drawing a picture of a dead anarchist when you	K
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met her She asked you to stand beside the anarchist and act	Z2
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as if you had killed him You slapped her across the face	L
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and said something that would be embarrassing for me to	K
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repeat	A3
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You both fell very much in love	P
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Once while you were at the front she read Anatomy of	P
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Melancholy and did drawings of a lemon	C
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Your love for each other was mostly spiritual Neither	A
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one of you performed like millionaires in bed	W
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When Barcelona fell you and she flew to England and	E2
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then took a ship back to New York Your love for each other	A
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remained in Spain It was only a war love You loved only	G
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yourselves loving each other in Spain during the war On	B3
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the Atlantic you were different toward each other and became	C3
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every day more and more like people lost from each other	A
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Every wave on the Atlantic was like a dead seagull dragging	C2
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its driftwood artillery from horizon to horizon	C
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When the ship bumped up against America you departed	D
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without saying anything and never saw each other again The	B
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last I heard of you you were still living in Philadelphia	B
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That's what you think happened up there I said	W
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Partly he said Yes that's part of it	D3
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He took out his pipe and filled it with tobacco and lit it	D3
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Do you want me to tell you what else happened up there	S
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he said	W
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Go ahead	W
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You crossed the border into Mexico he said You	K
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rode your horse into a small town The people knew who	K
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you were and they were afraid of you They knew you had	K2
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killed many men with that gun you wore at your side The	B
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town itself was so small that it didn't have a priest	E3
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When the rurales saw you they left the town Tough as	L
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they were they did not want to have anything to do with you	K
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The rurales left	S2
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You became the most powerful man in town	F3
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You were seduced by a thirteen year old girl and you	K
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and she lived together in an adobe hut and practically all	G3
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you did was make love	P
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She was slender and had long dark hair You made love	P
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standing sitting lying on the dirt floor with pigs and chickens	L
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around you The walls the floor and even the roof of the	B
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hut were coated with your sperm and her come	H3
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You slept on the floor at night and used your sperm for	D2
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a pillow and her come for a blanket	R
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The people in the town were so afraid of you that they	N
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could do nothing	C2
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After a while she started going around town without any	G
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clothes on and the people of the town said that it was not a	B
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good thing and when you started going around without any	G
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clothes and when both of you began making love on the back	I3
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of your horse in the middle of the zocalo the people of the	B
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town became so afraid that they abandoned the town It's	L
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been abandoned ever since People won't live there	S
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Neither of you lived to be twenty one It was not neces	L
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sary	S
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See I do know what happened upstairs he said He	G
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smiled at	J3