Oblique Addict suffers a whole spectrum of subjective horror, silent protoplasmic frenzy, hideous agony of the bones. Tensions build up, pure energy without emotional content finally tears through the body throwing him about like a man in contact with high tension wires. If his charge connection is cut off cold,the Oblique Addict falls into such violent electric convulsions that his bones shake loose, and he dies with skeleton straining to climb out of his unendurable flesh and run in a straight line to the nearest cemetery. The relation between an O.A. (Oblique Addict ) and his R.C. ( Recharge Connection )  is so intense that they can only endure each other’s company for brief and infrequent intervals- I mean aside from recharge meets, when all personal contact is eclipsed by the recharge process.

Reading the paper. . . Something about a triple murder in the Rue de la Merde,Paris:” An adjusting of scores.”. . . I keep slipping away. . . “The police have identified the author . . . Pepe El Culito. . . The Little Ass Hole, an affectionate diminuitive.” Does it really say that?. . . I try to focus  the words. . .they preparate in meaningless mosaic. . .

LAZARUS GO HOME

Fumbling through faded tape at the pick up frontier, a languid grey area of hiatus miasmic with yawns and gaping goof holes, Lee found out that the young junky