{"id":"01KG0750BE4A0QB2VDD88VW0MV","cid":"bafkreidcncntbvso56g3xbfo7g55hgfyq3wgm3ao6bogsdh2fpyzzputr4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":694,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:13:49.919Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":646,"text":" 619\t4\n\n\n 620\tI didn't have anything special to do, so I went down to the can and chewed the rag\n 621\twith him while he was shaving. We were the only ones in the can, because everybody\n 622\twas still down at the game. It was hot as hell and the windows were all steamy. There\n 623\twere about ten washbowls, all right against the wall. Stradlater had the middle one. I sat\n 624\tdown on the one right next to him and started turning the cold water on and off--this\n 625\tnervous habit I have. Stradlater kept whistling 'Song of India\" while he shaved. He had\n 626\tone of those very piercing whistles that are practically never in tune, and he always\n 627\tpicked out some song that's hard to whistle even if you're a good whistler, like \"Song of\n 628\tIndia\" or \"Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.\" He could really mess a song up.\n 629\tYou remember I said before that Ackley was a slob in his personal habits? Well,\n 630\tso was Stradlater, but in a different way. Stradlater was more of a secret slob. He always\n 631\tlooked all right, Stradlater, but for instance, you should've seen the razor he shaved\n 632\thimself with. It was always rusty as hell and full of lather and hairs and crap. He never\n 633\tcleaned it or anything. He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up,\n 634\tbut he was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did. The reason he fixed\n 635\thimself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself. He thought he\n 636\twas the handsomest guy in the Western Hemisphere. He was pretty handsome, too--I'll\n 637\tadmit it. But he was mostly the kind of a handsome guy that if your parents saw his\n 638\tpicture in your Year Book, they'd right away say, \"Who's this boy?\" I mean he was\n 639\tmostly a Year Book kind of handsome guy. I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were\n 640\ta lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if you saw their\n 641\tpictures in the Year Book. They'd look like they had big noses or their ears stuck out. I've\n 642\thad that experience frequently.\n 643\tAnyway, I was sitting on the washbowl next to where Stradlater was shaving, sort\n 644\tof turning the water on and off. I still had my red hunting hat on, with the peak around to\n 645\tthe back and all. I really got a bang out of that hat.\n 646\t\"Hey,\" Stradlater said. \"Wanna do me a big favor?\"\n 647\t\"What?\" I said. Not too enthusiastic. He was always asking you to do him a big\n 648\tfavor. You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're\n 649\talways asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themseif, they\n 650\tthink you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort\n 651\tof funny, in a way.\n 652\t\"You goin' out tonight?\" he said.\n 653\t\"I might. I might not. I don't know. Why?\"\n 654\t\"I got about a hundred pages to read for history for Monday,\" he said. \"How 'bout\n 655\twriting a composition for me, for English? I'll be up the creek if I don't get the goddam\n 656\tthing in by Monday, the reason I ask. How 'bout it?\"\n 657\tIt was very ironical. It really was.\n 658\t\"I'm the one that's flunking out of the goddam place, and you're asking me to\n 659\twrite you a goddam composition,\" I said.\n 660\t\"Yeah, I know. The thing is, though, I'll be up the creek if I don't get it in. Be a\n 661\tbuddy. Be a buddyroo. Okay?\"\n 662\tI didn't answer him right away. Suspense is good for some bastards like\n 663\tStradlater.\n 664\t\"What on?\" I said.\n","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725KS20AJHNWVF53R5WKQ","peer_label":"4","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:13:50.461Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:13:50.461Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}