{"id":"01KG076JSS8C0YXMYQKZVF4JQW","cid":"bafkreig3ojxzlizbds76h5kunquhetqqm2aunttfmt2ou6flgpfa4efmcy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":1820,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:14:41.545Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":1762,"text":" 1687\tI ever danced with. I'm not kidding, some of these very stupid girls can really knock you\n 1688\tout on a dance floor. You take a really smart girl, and half the time she's trying to lead\n 1689\tyou around the dance floor, or else she's such a lousy dancer, the best thing to do is stay\n 1690\tat the table and just get drunk with her.\n 1691\t\"You really can dance,\" I told the blonde one. \"You oughta be a pro. I mean it. I\n 1692\tdanced with a pro once, and you're twice as good as she was. Did you ever hear of Marco\n 1693\tand Miranda?\"\n 1694\t\"What?\" she said. She wasn't even listening to me. She was looking all around the\n 1695\tplace.\n 1696\t\"I said did you ever hear of Marco and Miranda?\"\n 1697\t\"I don't know. No. I don't know.\"\n\n\n 1698\t\"Well, they're dancers, she's a dancer. She's not too hot, though. She does\n 1699\teverything she's supposed to, but she's not so hot anyway. You know when a girl's really\n 1700\ta terrific dancer?\"\n 1701\t\"Wudga say?\" she said. She wasn't listening to me, even. Her mind was\n 1702\twandering all over the place.\n 1703\t\"I said do you know when a girl's really a terrific dancer?\"\n 1704\t\"Uh-uh.\"\n 1705\t\"Well--where I have my hand on your back. If I think there isn't anything\n 1706\tunderneath my hand--no can, no legs, no feet, no anything--then the girl's really a terrific\n 1707\tdancer.\"\n 1708\tShe wasn't listening, though. So I ignored her for a while. We just danced. God,\n 1709\tcould that dopey girl dance. Buddy Singer and his stinking band was playing \"Just One of\n 1710\tThose Things\" and even they couldn't ruin it entirely. It's a swell song. I didn't try any\n 1711\ttrick stuff while we danced--I hate a guy that does a lot of show-off tricky stuff on the\n 1712\tdance floor--but I was moving her around plenty, and she stayed with me. The funny\n 1713\tthing is, I thought she was enjoying it, too, till all of a sudden she came out with this very\n 1714\tdumb remark. \"I and my girl friends saw Peter Lorre last night,\" she said. \"The movie\n 1715\tactor. In person. He was buyin' a newspaper. He's cute.\"\n 1716\t\"You're lucky,\" I told her. \"You're really lucky. You know that?\" She was really a\n 1717\tmoron. But what a dancer. I could hardly stop myself from sort of giving her a kiss on the\n 1718\ttop of her dopey head--you know-- right where the part is, and all. She got sore when I\n 1719\tdid it.\n 1720\t\"Hey! What's the idea?\"\n 1721\t\"Nothing. No idea. You really can dance,\" I said. \"I have a kid sister that's only in\n 1722\tthe goddam fourth grade. You're about as good as she is, and she can dance better than\n 1723\tanybody living or dead.\"\n 1724\t\"Watch your language, if you don't mind.\"\n 1725\tWhat a lady, boy. A queen, for Chrissake.\n 1726\t\"Where you girls from?\" I asked her.\n 1727\tShe didn't answer me, though. She was busy looking around for old Peter Lorre to\n 1728\tshow up, I guess.\n 1729\t\"Where you girls from?\" I asked her again.\n 1730\t\"What?\" she said.\n 1731\t\"Where you girls from? Don't answer if you don't feel like it. I don't want you to\n 1732\tstrain yourself.\"\n 1733\t\"Seattle, Washington,\" she said. She was doing me a big favor to tell me.\n 1734\t\"You're a very good conversationalist,\" I told her. \"You know that?\"\n 1735\t\"What?\"\n 1736\tI let it drop. It was over her head, anyway. \"Do you feel like jitterbugging a little\n 1737\tbit, if they play a fast one? Not corny jitterbug, not jump or anything--just nice and easy.\n 1738\tEverybody'll all sit down when they play a fast one, except the old guys and the fat guys,\n 1739\tand we'll have plenty of room. Okay?\"\n 1740\t\"It's immaterial to me,\" she said. \"Hey--how old are you, anyhow?\"\n 1741\tThat annoyed me, for some reason. \"Oh, Christ. Don't spoil it,\" I said. \"I'm\n 1742\ttwelve, for Chrissake. I'm big for my age.\"\n","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725E9A9CCEYGRP2MDJ6G5","peer_label":"Chapter 9","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:14:42.123Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:14:42.123Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}