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  Alice is readying for lunch with her chum Lee as I suggested they have it at Chumley's.  Quick trips to N.Y. are a family joke ever since my sister said she could put us up in her West 80 st digs in case of an earthquake here in San Francisco.
   Am sending the story about New Idrea in case you get nostalgiac [sic] about Monkey Camp.  also, so I can insert the bit about the chaps whose new Mercury was called in because it contained traces of tuna fish.
   Nothing changes, the rock scene gets rockier and the trip scene more acidioulous.   Some of us still manage to cling to our sanity and our beer bottles.  When driven to the wall I reread Archie and Mehitable and make bum jokes.
   The McCloskey Matress [sic] Co is liquidating all their water beds.  Curtailed some third class (junk) mail the other day and carried only a partial post.  About the PO you underlined: have to make jokes.
    After many interruptions it now is 11:00, at the Presidio, 21 guns are being fired while aircraft fly overhead to honor the dead.  I'm sure they're grateful. 
    So ask not what you can do to your country but what your country can do to you.

Allons George