By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The writer lists Birdie Dunlap, the Hurricane Lounge, a shoemaker, and other names beside remarks on jazz and the absurd. The writer compares gambling with borrowed money to selling something that cannot be replaced.
The writer records both social references and sayings without assigning them to one incident. The warning about borrowed money identifies a cost beyond the immediate bet.
A typed list that starts with 'Birdie Dunlap and the Hurricane Lounge' and 'The feel of cool. Jazz right there.', then names 'Carderalle the shoemaker', 'Cardello and the lamps', and 'Dick Walsh at the Jamestown Tavern - Pittsburgh Pirate's'. It ends with the single words 'Kettle Drums', 'Genovese', 'Sabatini', and 'Tippewa'.
Among the names and places sit two compressed sayings, 'The absurd can never be a secret / It is exactly what is good for the telling' and 'Gambling with borrowed money can be like / selling something you can't replace'. The page reads as a writer's stockpile of scenes, characters and maxims, and its tone is wry about both storytelling and risk.