26/08/2020

“Jesus ! These ID’s got no class to them .”                                                                           Benway calls over the attendant who is sitting at one end of the wars reading a book of J.M. Barrie’s plays. ” Get this fucking ID outa here.It’s a bring down already . Bad for the tourist business .”                                                                                                                    ” What should i do with them ? ”                                                                                              ” How in the fuck  should I know ? I’m a scientist . A pure scientist. Just get them outa here. I don’t hafta look at them is all . They constitue an albatross . ”                                      “But what ? Where ? ”                                                                                                              ” Proper channels. Buzz the district Coordinator or whatever call himself . . . new title every week . Doubt if he exist .”                                                                                              Doctor Benway pauses at the door and looks back at IND’s . ” Our failures, ” he  says . ” Well ,it’s all in the day’s work . ”                                                                                               ” Do they ever come back ? ”                                                                                                  “They don’t come back , won’t come back , once they’re gone , ” Benway sings softly . ” Now this ward  has some innarest .”                                                                                  The patients stand in groups talking and spitting on the floor . Junk hangs in the air like a grey haze .                                                                                                                                 ” A heart-warming sight ,” says Benway , ” those junkies standing around waiting for The Man . Six months ago they were all schizophrenic . Some of them hadn’t been out of bed for years . Now look at them . In all the course of my practices, I have never seen a schizophrenic junky, and junkies are mostly of the schizo physical type. Want to cure anybody of anything, find out who doesn’t have it. So who don’t got it? Junkies don’t got it. Oh, incidentally, there’s an area in Bolivia with no psychosis. Right sane folk in them hills. Like to get in