- マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
453 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 13:54:29 ID:NxbtZm3g - ing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or any
thing. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd
have an overcoat on this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last
time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substi
tute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother a
nd father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one o
f those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be di
fferent in some way--I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not s
ure I'd feel like it.
I took my old hunting hat out of my pocket while I walked, and put it on
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467 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 14:05:06 ID:NxbtZm3g - ." She always knew somebody, any place you took her, or thought she did. She kep
t saying that till I got bored as hell, and I said to her, "Why don't you go on
over and give him a big soul kiss, if you know him? He'll enjoy it." She got sor
e when I said that. Finally, though, the jerk noticed her and came over and said
hello. You should've seen the way they said hello. You'd have thought they hadn
't seen each other in twenty years. You'd have thought they'd taken baths in the
same bathtub or something when they were little kids. Old buddyroos. It was nau
seating. The funny part was, they probably met each other just once, at some pho
ny party. Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduc
ed us. His name was George something--I don't even remember--and he went to Ando
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
482 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 14:18:52 ID:NxbtZm3g - "Why not? Why the hell not?"
"Stop screaming at me, please," she said. Which was crap, because I wasn
't even screaming at her.
"Why can'tcha? Why not?"
"Because you can't, that's all. In the first place, we're both practical
ly children. And did you ever stop to think what you'd do if you didn't get a jo
b when your money ran out? We'd starve to death. The whole thing's so fantastic,
it isn't even--"
"It isn't fantastic. I'd get a job. Don't worry about that. You don't ha
ve to worry about that. What's the matter? Don't you want to go with me? Say so,
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490 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 14:23:14 ID:NxbtZm3g - ldn't. After we started going around together, I asked her how come she could da
te a showoff bastard like Al Pike. Jane said he wasn't a show-off. She said he h
ad an inferiority complex. She acted like she felt sorry for him or something, a
nd she wasn't just putting it on. She meant it. It's a funny thing about girls.
Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard--very mean, or very co
nceited and all--and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an
inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a
bastard, in my opinion. Girls. You never know what they're going to think. I onc
e got this girl Roberta Walsh's roommate a date with a friend of mine. His name
was Bob Robinson and he really had an inferiority complex. You could tell he was
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498 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 14:26:48 ID:NxbtZm3g - the war and now he can't operate any more because his nerves are shot, so he bo
ozes all the time, but he's pretty witty and all. Anyway, old Alec writes a book
, and this girl publishes it, and they both make a hatful of dough on it. They'r
e all set to get married when this other girl, old Marcia, shows up. Marcia was
Alec's fianc?e before he lost his memory, and she recognizes him when he's in th
is store autographing books. She tells old Alec he's really a duke and all, but
he doesn't believe her and doesn't want to go with her to visit his mother and a
ll. His mother's blind as a bat. But the other girl, the homey one, makes him go
. She's very noble and all. So he goes. But he still doesn't get his memory back
, even when his great Dane jumps all over him and his mother sticks her fingers
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578 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:14:27 ID:NxbtZm3g - m Pencey around 1776 come back and walk all over the place, with their wives and
children and everybody. You should've seen this one old guy that was about fift
y. What he did was, he came in our room and knocked on the door and asked us if
we'd mind if he used the bathroom. The bathroom was at the end of the corridor--
I don't know why the hell he asked us. You know what he said? He said he wanted
to see if his initials were still in one of the can doors. What he did, he carve
d his goddam stupid sad old initials in one of the can doors about ninety years
ago, and he wanted to see if they were still there. So my roommate and I walked
him down to the bathroom and all, and we had to stand there while he looked for
his initials in all the can doors. He kept talking to us the whole time, telling
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590 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:23:17 ID:NxbtZm3g - I mean if I had my goddam choice?"
"What? Stop swearing."
"You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'? I'd
like--"
"It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said.
"It's a poem. By Robert Burns."
"I know it's a poem by Robert Burns."
She was right, though. It is "If a body meet a body coming through the r
ye." I didn't know it then, though.
"I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, I keep pic
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648 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:54:59 ID:NxbtZm3g - too, but it felt good because I was sweating so much.
I didn't know where the hell to go. I didn't want to go to another hotel
and spend all Phoebe's dough. So finally all I did was I walked over to Lexingt
on and took the subway down to Grand Central. My bags were there and all, and I
figured I'd sleep in that crazy waiting room where all the benches are. So that'
s what I did. It wasn't too bad for a while because there weren't many people ar
ound and I could stick my feet up. But I don't feel much like discussing it. It
wasn't too nice. Don't ever try it. I mean it. It'll depress you.
I only slept till around nine o'clock because a million people started c
oming in the waiting room and I had to take my feet down. I can't sleep so hot i
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
665 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 17:02:21 ID:NxbtZm3g - Love,
HOLDEN
Her school was practically right near the museum, and she had to pass it
on her way home for lunch anyway, so I knew she could meet me all right.
Then I started walking up the stairs to the principal's office so I coul
d give the note to somebody that would bring it to her in her classroom. I folde
d it about ten times so nobody'd open it. You can't trust anybody in a goddam sc
hool. But I knew they'd give it to her if I was her brother and all.
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