Manhattan Page #3

a couple of records.

But you can't, uh, you can't...

it's not a good thing.

You should think of me sort of

as a detour on the highway of life.

- So get dressed because you gotta go.

- Don't you want me to stay over?

I don't want you to get in the habit...

...because first you stay one night,

then two nights,

and then you're living here.

- That doesn't sound too bad.

- It's not a great idea.

You won't like it, believe me.

I'm tough to get along with.

Tomorrow we'll go to the cinema and I'll

show you the Veronica Lake movie. OK?

OK. Veronica Lake's

the pin-up with the red hair?

No, that's Rita Hayworth.

Do we have to go over this all the time?

- Rita who?

- Rita Hayworth. Are you joking with me?

Course I'm joking! You think I'm unaware

of any event pre-Paul McCartney.

- I find these photographs interesting.

- Yes, so do I.

- Do you ever use the camera I got you?

- Oh, yeah, I use it all the time.

I was taking pictures in our drama

class. It's fun, really neat.

You know you sound like

the mouse in Tom And Jerry.

Are you kidding me?

- You should talk! You've a whiny voice!

- Sh! You sound like the mouse.

Well, thanks.

I know, I'm a whiner.

- What are you doing here?

- Hi.

- How long have you been here?

- We were talking about you.

That's hilarious. Wh... What... Were you

walking around behind us or what?

- How are you? Hi.

- Good. That's funny. We were talking...

We're gonna go to

the Shakespeare In The Park thing.

Oh, yeah, right. I wanna do that.

Oh, this is my friend.

Mary Wilke, Isaac Davis and Tracy.

- How do you do?

- Hi. Nice to meet you.

You, too.

- Hello.

- Hi.

We were downstairs.

We saw the photography exhibition.

- Absolutely incredible.

- It's really good.

Really?

- The photographs downstairs?

- Yes.

Great. Absolutely great. Did you?

No, I really felt

it was very derivative.

To me it looked like it was

straight out of Diane Arbus,

but it had none of the wit.

Well, we didn't like it

as much as the Plexiglas sculpture.

You liked the Plexiglas?

You didn't like the Plexiglas either?

Ah, that's interesting.

Nah, no... uh-uh.

It was a lot better than that...

that steel cube. Did you see it?

- Oh, yeah. That was the worst.

- Now that was brilliant to me.

- The cube was brilliant?

- Yes.

To me it was very textural.

You know what I mean?

It was perfectly integrated

and it had a...

a marvelous kind of negative capability.

The rest of the stuff was bullshit.

- You wanna see the Sol Lewitt?

- Sure. That'd be fun.

You wanna see that?

He opens at the Modern soon. I was

gonna do a piece on Sol for Insights.

Do you know that magazine?

It's a little magazine.

They're such schmucks up there.

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