{"id":"01KG076EKBXTZXZC2Y2WAW8PM2","cid":"bafkreic73clikxdlrpfoesaye63x2ngbedr2emqdtywk7gibgb56thmnxu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":1203,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:14:37.239Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":1146,"text":"  1097\t7\n  1098\tA tiny bit of light came through the shower curtains and all from our room, and I\n  1099\tcould see him lying in bed. I knew damn well he was wide awake. \"Ackley?\" I said.\n  1100\t\"Y'awake?\"\n  1101\t\"Yeah.\"\n  1102\tIt was pretty dark, and I stepped on somebody's shoe on the floor and danm near\n  1103\tfell on my head. Ackley sort of sat up in bed and leaned on his arm. He had a lot of white\n  1104\tstuff on his face, for his pimples. He looked sort of spooky in the dark. \"What the hellya\n  1105\tdoing, anyway?\" I said.\n  1106\t\"Wuddaya mean what the hell am I doing? I was tryna sleep before you guys\n  1107\tstarted making all that noise. What the hell was the fight about, anyhow?\"\n  1108\t\"Where's the light?\" I couldn't find the light. I was sliding my hand all over the\n  1109\twall.\n  1110\t\"Wuddaya want the light for? . . . Right next to your hand.\"\n  1111\tI finally found the switch and turned It on. Old Ackley put his hand up so the light\n  1112\twouldn't hurt his eyes.\n\n<!-- [Page 26](arke:01KFYTAC4W6Z63WQ971W30X8Y7) -->\n  1113\t\"Jesus!\" he said. \"What the hell happened to you?\" He meant all the blood and all.\n  1114\t\"I had a little goddam tiff with Stradlater,\" I said. Then I sat down on the floor.\n  1115\tThey never had any chairs in their room. I don't know what the hell they did with their\n  1116\tchairs. \"Listen,\" I said, \"do you feel like playing a little Canasta?\" He was a Canasta\n  1117\tfiend.\n  1118\t\"You're still bleeding, for Chrissake. You better put something on it.\"\n  1119\t\"It'll stop. Listen. Ya wanna play a little Canasta or don'tcha?\"\n  1120\t\"Canasta, for Chrissake. Do you know what time it is, by any chance?\"\n  1121\t\"It isn't late. It's only around eleven, eleven-thirty.\"\n  1122\t\"Only around!\" Ackley said. \"Listen. I gotta get up and go to Mass in the\n  1123\tmorning, for Chrissake. You guys start hollering and fighting in the middle of the\n  1124\tgoddam--What the hell was the fight about, anyhow?\"\n  1125\t\"It's a long story. I don't wanna bore ya, Ackley. I'm thinking of your welfare,\" I\n  1126\ttold him. I never discussed my personal life with him. In the first place, he was even\n  1127\tmore stupid than Stradlater. Stradlater was a goddam genius next to Ackley. \"Hey,\" I\n  1128\tsaid, \"is it okay if I sleep in Ely's bed tonight? He won't be back till tomorrow night, will\n  1129\the?\" I knew damn well he wouldn't. Ely went home damn near every week end.\n  1130\t\"I don't know when the hell he's coming back,\" Ackley said.\n  1131\tBoy, did that annoy me. \"What the hell do you mean you don't know when he's\n  1132\tcoming back? He never comes back till Sunday night, does he?\"\n  1133\t\"No, but for Chrissake, I can't just tell somebody they can sleep in his goddam\n  1134\tbed if they want to.\"\n  1135\tThat killed me. I reached up from where I was sitting on the floor and patted him\n  1136\ton the goddam shoulder. \"You're a prince, Ackley kid,\" I said. \"You know that?\"\n  1137\t\"No, I mean it--I can't just tell somebody they can sleep in--\"\n  1138\t\"You're a real prince. You're a gentleman and a scholar, kid,\" I said. He really\n  1139\twas, too. \"Do you happen to have any cigarettes, by any chance?--Say 'no' or I'll drop\n  1140\tdead.\"\n  1141\t\"No, I don't, as a matter of fact. Listen, what the hell was the fight about?\"\n  1142\tI didn't answer him. All I did was, I got up and went over and looked out the\n  1143\twindow. I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.\n  1144\t\"What the hell was the fight about, anyhow?\" Ackley said, for about the fiftieth\n  1145\ttime. He certainly was a bore about that.\n  1146\t\"About you,\" I said.\n  1147\t\"About me, for Chrissake?\"\n  1148\t\"Yeah. I was defending your goddam honor. Stradlater said you had a lousy\n  1149\tpersonality. I couldn't let him get away with that stuff.\"\n  1150\tThat got him excited. \"He did? No kidding? He did?\"\n  1151\tI told him I was only kidding, and then I went over and laid down on Ely's bed.\n  1152\tBoy, did I feel rotten. I felt so damn lonesome.","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725KT5S0CP3SK93NBR7HE","peer_label":"7","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:14:37.823Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:14:37.823Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}