I have walked these streets plenty enough. I have seen the curs loping about, sickening blotched tongues dangling wetly down—practically slurping up the sludge from the dirty pavement! The much-trod carpets of their mangy backs look to be infested with God-knows-what manner of insectile life—larvae, lice, ticks . . . . I shudder in the imagining.

You should go to this because it’s in Chicago, the greatest city in the world, and because what else is it you’re so dead set on doing? Monday night? Really? You can’t even watch the Bulls lose because that isn’t happening till tomorrow? The Bulls losing? (Can anyone tell how depressed I am about that? i.e., re: Bulls losses?) Whaaa

It is day #124. Rodeo wakes me up at 9am. His morning bark is as piercing as a car alarm. It is panic inducing. I wake up under the impression the house is on fire. I throw my winter jacket over my sweatpants, slip into my rubber boots, and take Rodeo outside. On the way out, my downstairs neighbor opens his door just wide enough to give me the finger. I can’t see his face, or his body. Just an arm – long, pale, and cruel – and a finger to match.

Body-themed cocktails and mock-tails will be served beginning at 3:00pm sharp standard time, followed by a magical performance by Trevor Palmer, the mayor’s honorable brother and solo-synth-orchestrist, using many new and exciting instruments of his own discovery.

Morse showed Otis a memo issued by Muck: “To all C Ward Personnel (DIMS)”, it began, “our studies have led us to conclude that the all too common elements of degradation, corruption and depression can be traced more quickly to poetry than any other form of expression. Byron, Shelly, Poe, Frost, Whitman, Ginsburg, Dickinson, Will Shakespeare; —these were a pack of parasites and addicts, social pariahs, misfits, egoists and degenerates. It’s a wonder their verse, for its wantonness, false pride and profligacy, has managed to endure. Immoral and amoral elements thrive, it seems, while the natural morality of choice may very well require cultivation to endure. We are ordered, notwithstanding, to engage our patient’s poetic tendencies. Some suspect it will lead us to a better understanding of his dark power to experience the future through precognitive dreams and visions.” Otis liked Morse’s bluntness.

He lounged in the kitchen wearing boxers and t-shirt. She dropped the Help Wanted section before him. He harrumphed, said, the same old, same old, woman, eh?

I am not the only person recently come into possession. Jane and Todd have also been granted possession of the product. Jane and Todd have received 10000 and 15000 units, respectively. These 5000 + 10000 + 15000 = 30000 units constitute the entirety of the product. Jane stores hers in her sparsely-furnished yet comfortable artist loft. Todd stores his on his sprawling harbor houseboat, the size of a very small city.