Imaginary Crimes Page #3

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Now his dog is eating T-bone steaks...

...and he's flying his own plane

to Utah to take rhumba lessons.

Where is he now?

He's probably in Hollywood,

doing the rhumba with Sandra Dee.

How do you spell "rhumba"?

R - H - U - M - B - A.

"Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born?

"I hasten to inform him or her,

it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

"I pass death with the dying,

and birth with the new-washed babe...

"... and I am not contained

between my hat and my boots

"And peruse manifold objects,

no two alike... "

How did you get just a one-year sentence

at Wretchmont?

"I am not on earth

nor adjunct of an earth... "

Just lucky.

"I am the mate and companion of people...

"... all just as immortal

and fathomless as myself.

"And they do not know how immortal...

"... but I know.

"Every kind for itself and its own,

For me mine male and female

"For me all that have been boys... "

Sometimes he gets so involved in reading,

he forgets we're here.

A lot of girls ditched while

he was reading Julius Caesar.

"For me the mothers

and mothers of mothers

"For me lips that have smiled,

eyes that have shed tears

"For me children

and the begetters of children. "

And he never, ever sits down.

- Not even to grade papers.

- Miss Jenkins.

I know your mouth is as big

as that bag you carry...

...but I would appreciate it

if you kept them both closed in my class.

I was just telling Sonya

about reading Julius Caesar.

Miss Weiler.

If you have something more important

to say than Walt Whitman...

...why don't you share it

with the rest of the class?

No?

Good. Okay.

"I see through the broadcloth

and gingham whether or no

"And am around, tenacious, acquisitive...

- "... tireless, and can...

- Gum?

"... never be shaken away. "

Bobby Darren.

Yeah, I'll take Bobby Darren.

It's not the way he looks.

You have to listen to his lyrics.

Who cares about lyrics?

Look at Frankie Avalon.

What is it with you two?

He's sexy.

Margaret thinks Frankie Avalon is sexy.

- Doesn't mean he was sexy.

- They're both a couple of greaseballs.

Think of all the money they're making.

I'd like some.

Besides, what kind of talk is that anyway

from two Edgemont girls?

Sexy?

What the hell are they teaching you?

Not to swear.

Your dad just told me

he's buying land in the Rockies.

He says we can go skiing.

Sounds really great.

Come on.

A big one.

Sonya, come on.

See these flecks of metal, girls?

These little flecks...

...are going to make us all rich someday.

Eddie and I are staking four claims here.

We named them after you girls.

Sonya 1, Sonya 2, and Greta 1...

...and Greta 2.

How original.

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