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19 A Beginning with Great Names We do not at all know where Alice Rendal may be found at this hour This past day she was seen at the hotel pool’s western side and in the telescope of Godhra Camp’s Ibrahim Borka on the Industrial Corporation’s fifth floor Were he a silkworm he would have woven a cocoon around her and the two would have been dropped in boiling water together Our sympathies and our nights go out to the girls who saw off their childhood speedily and with insolence Our love goes out to the girl whose eyes tell New York time whose nail polish glows in the dark She is actively trying to save the race of dolphins The best of all nights was spent in her permed hair We were at variance over Germany’s reunification 20 Yet we know the heart is a trapeze artist that keeps up its act without an audience Wellai Wang-Ik is lying stripped and joyful in her room and could entertain guests in that state but our knowledge is short Beginning today we must call the two girls Helen and Beatrice— who pass by Mansfield Street at half past five in the evening— that we may make a beginning with two great names ...

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