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By Jack Joseph Smith

It is in June of 1966. Stavrogin Bash walks along the old Pacific Coast Highway. He had left San Francisco in the early morning and been lucky with hitch-hiking so the sun was still rather high. Stavrogin is twenty five years old and out of shape for a middle weight boxing type. He's been teaching drama on a grant from the Poverty Program in Pittsburgh for the last eighteen months. But at the end, things started to fall apart. His wife left him with their little daughter,

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In June 1966 Stavrogin walks the Pacific Coast Highway after hitchhiking from San Francisco. The narrator gives his age, boxing build and eighteen months teaching drama, then says his wife left him with their daughter.

The narrator introduces Stavrogin through a few facts about work, travel and his body. The final unfinished sentence places the family separation alongside the failure of his Pittsburgh plans.

Claude

A typed opening: 'It is in June of 1966.' Stavrogin walks the coast highway after teaching drama 'on a grant from the Poverty Program in Pittsburgh', and 'His wife left him with their little daughter,'.

The page breaks off mid-sentence after naming the separation.