{"id":"01KG078CMDE0Q3K7BM67FS9Z1K","cid":"bafkreifeyhyih35fcnxvzuscbrqeh7jtyzwi4w2jg7iiynoyhsulaas4nu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2421,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:15:40.756Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 5","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":2365,"text":"  2264\tya?\" she asked me again, and then she stood up and pulled her dress over her head.\n  2265\tI certainly felt peculiar when she did that. I mean she did it so sudden and all. I\n  2266\tknow you're supposed to feel pretty sexy when somebody gets up and pulls their dress\n  2267\tover their head, but I didn't. Sexy was about the last thing I was feeling. I felt much more\n  2268\tdepressed than sexy.\n  2269\t\"Ya got a watch on ya, hey?\"\n  2270\t\"No. No, I don't,\" I said. Boy, was I feeling peculiar. \"What's your name?\" I asked\n  2271\ther. All she had on was this pink slip. It was really quite embarrassing. It really was.\n  2272\t\"Sunny,\" she said. \"Let's go, hey.\"\n  2273\t\"Don't you feel like talking for a while?\" I asked her. It was a childish thing to\n  2274\tsay, but I was feeling so damn peculiar. \"Are you in a very big hurry?\"\n  2275\tShe looked at me like I was a madman. \"What the heck ya wanna talk about?\" she\n  2276\tsaid.\n  2277\t\"I don't know. Nothing special. I just thought perhaps you might care to chat for a\n  2278\twhile.\"\n  2279\tShe sat down in the chair next to the desk again. She didn't like it, though, you\n  2280\tcould tell. She started jiggling her foot again--boy, she was a nervous girl.\n  2281\t\"Would you care for a cigarette now?\" I said. I forgot she didn't smoke.\n  2282\t\"I don't smoke. Listen, if you're gonna talk, do it. I got things to do.\"\n\n<!-- [Page 52](arke:01KFYTAC58ECK9YXFDN9R4RDNT) -->\n  2283\tI couldn't think of anything to talk about, though. I thought of asking her how she\n  2284\tgot to be a prostitute and all, but I was scared to ask her. She probably wouldn't've told\n  2285\tme anyway.\n  2286\t\"You don't come from New York, do you?\" I said finally. That's all I could think\n  2287\tof.\n  2288\t\"Hollywood,\" she said. Then she got up and went over to where she'd put her\n  2289\tdress down, on the bed. \"Ya got a hanger? I don't want to get my dress all wrinkly. It's\n  2290\tbrand-clean.\"\n  2291\t\"Sure,\" I said right away. I was only too glad to get up and do something. I took\n  2292\ther dress over to the closet and hung it up for her. It was funny. It made me feel sort of\n  2293\tsad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the\n  2294\tstore knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a\n  2295\tregular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell--I don't know why exactly.\n  2296\tI sat down again and tried to keep the old conversation going. She was a lousy\n  2297\tconversationalist. \"Do you work every night?\" I asked her--it sounded sort of awful, after\n  2298\tI'd said it.\n  2299\t\"Yeah.\" She was walking all around the room. She picked up the menu off the\n  2300\tdesk and read it.\n  2301\t\"What do you do during the day?\"\n  2302\tShe sort of shrugged her shoulders. She was pretty skinny. \"Sleep. Go to the\n  2303\tshow.\" She put down the menu and looked at me. \"Let's go, hey. I haven't got all--\"\n  2304\t\"Look,\" I said. \"I don't feel very much like myself tonight. I've had a rough night.\n  2305\tHonest to God. I'll pay you and all, but do you mind very much if we don't do it? Do you\n  2306\tmind very much?\" The trouble was, I just didn't want to do it. I felt more depressed than\n  2307\tsexy, if you want to know the truth. She was depressing. Her green dress hanging in the\n  2308\tcloset and all. And besides, I don't think I could ever do it with somebody that sits in a\n  2309\tstupid movie all day long. I really don't think I could.\n  2310\tShe came over to me, with this funny look on her face, like as if she didn't believe\n  2311\tme. \"What'sa matter?\" she said.\n  2312\t\"Nothing's the matter.\" Boy, was I getting nervous. \"The thing is, I had an\n  2313\toperation very recently.\"\n  2314\t\"Yeah? Where?\"\n  2315\t\"On my wuddayacallit--my clavichord.\"\n  2316\t\"Yeah? Where the hell's that?\"\n  2317\t\"The clavichord?\" I said. \"Well, actually, it's in the spinal canal. I mean it's quite a\n  2318\tways down in the spinal canal.\"","title":"Chunk 5"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725N1AW73BK692GT6CGC5","peer_label":"13","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:15:41.204Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:15:41.204Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}