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By Jack Joseph Smith

pad to the non-identified flying object of mercy. The ocean front fence posts of the L.A. camp, but she had lost her consintration. One of the farewell hellraisers; a man named Davenport, softly reclined in the back seat of an over journeyed Rolls Royce. More than dust had stolen away it's British sheen during the automobiles "horse trading" experiences in Mex- ico. But now it rolled along up through the cur- ves of Topanga Canyon, quite adequate it appear- ed for it's passangers. The Prankster was in the back seat with Davenport laughing with the South American "in" weed, while the driver and the shotgun rode in the front. "Would you gentlemen care for something on the silver spoon mother made me promise to keep?" It was asked in jest by the shotgun. Davenport twirled the ends of his mustache; and smiled his rosy cheeks into irresistibility. "There's a lesson to be learned Prankster," said Davenport, "from the rebirth of the spoon being Mamma's grave." They moved along. Prankster holding together a

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In a battered Rolls through Topanga Canyon, Prankster and Davenport turn weed, spoons, mustaches, and mother-graves into aristocratic outlaw comedy.

The page enjoys decadent detail, but it also makes luxury look secondhand and wandering. The joke is that grandeur survives mostly as style, banter, and theatrical self-invention. This reading remains provisional because the long marginal handwritten annotation still needs follow-up.

Claude

In a battered Rolls through Topanga Canyon, Prankster and Davenport turn weed, spoons, mustaches, and running commentary into a traveling drawing room. The page is a mobile set-piece.