Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña

Author:Richard Fariña [Fariña, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Classics, Humour, Fiction
ISBN: 9781101549520
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1966-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

“What’s up?” from Gnossos.

“Nothing much, really. Maybe something in that other room, from the sound of it.”

“I’m hip, but they’re choosy about guests.”

“So it seems. I’m glad you came back, anyway, we wanted to talk to you.”

“Hey listen, that girl I split with, that Kristin chic, you know anything about her?”

“How do you mean?”

“Like I said.”

“She’s a friend of Jack’s, I think. Why?”

“Nothing, man.” The vampire arriving with a tray of opened Red Caps, potato chips, and a bowl of creamy dip. She set it down next to the stoned Locomotive, who continued to sing with his shirt open, chest like a bear rug, thick lumpy glasses staring at the floor. “That’s all’s left,” said she timidly.

“Have a nightcap, Youngblood,” from magnanimous Sophocles.

“What else you want, baby?” the vampire taking a new tack, folding up next to them, blinking back runny mascara.

“And old Rosenbloom over there,” said Gnossos, ignoring her. “What’s his story? All those names.”

“I’m available,” said the vampire to her amulet.

“He’s German.”

“No.”

“You didn’t know that? Parents shipped him to Venezuela, got scared the war would spread and had him converted.”

“Catholic?”

“He picked up on it, that’s the weird part. He’s very devout.”

Poor old Jew. Saint Christopher keeps him safe in his wanderings. Me without a rebus, too vulnerable. “Oh, and another thing, Youngblood. This Pankhurst deal you keep in front. I’m a-political, right? No girl scout cookie campaigns, P.T.A. meetings, anything like that. I assume it’s what you wanted to talk about. They start moving in on my pad, I’ll deal with it all privately. But this committee-style setup; wow, really.”

“You don’t have to be so stand-offish, Paps. All the other independents—”

“Truly, man, you’d be wasting rhetoric, it’s not my pattern. Dig the Crusades. Lots of guys got hamstrung and staked out. The rest got the Turkish clap. Nobody got the old grail.”

T is for the Trip to Coney Island

H is for a Heroin Ragout . . .

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