Excerpt from 1979 Yackety Yack Bound two: Thank you for calling me last night. Actually, I had tried to call you manymany times from about to maybe after lo;ool (oh shit) to ask if you wanted to go out, get coffee, a beer, cream soda, anything. I wasn't thirsty at all. I wanted to see you, talk to you, listen to you talk and needed it so badly that even though you might say no I was willing to risk it. I have no friend like you and can you tell the ribbon is dying, just a minute, please. Yes, and of course you don't mind this nylon cartridge, do you, since it is all I have left even though the film ribbon prints with unmatched sharpness and clarity? Good girl. Take one butterfly twirl. Yes you may. And to get back to the mainline, anger and anguish were seething in me and let's put in a word for hurt feelings and a broken heart. (authentic anguish? I'm not sure; I had the feeling I could have turned it off at will but perhaps such control comes from years of being the daughter who doesn't cry at every sad commercial.) I can't stand it, I can't stand the histrionics the girl displays there's nothing quite as good as feeling sorry for yourself oh yes, she is onto herself and please no cracks that that is the problem, that I need someone else onto me, on top of me, for although you think of me as a loaded libido I am no beast even though I do many times follow my instincts, for I trust them, otherwise I would not be writing this now. (you may draw one breath, deeply, fiom the diaphragm.) The Power and the Passion, yes. But friendship undiluted, deeply felt will probably mean more to me in the long and short run. In fact I know it will. And so this is what I wanted to tell you last night but couldn't. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.