{"id":"01KG6FVM5GCZVGXX2W16BYECF1","cid":"bafkreigaulaisz7arytihiyxim4w33dazpq3ejlfx3yh6fvfyzhju5qe7e","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":3931,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T03:41:20.744Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 9","source_file":"01KG6FT59BXAZ3C5HRJ6SW8F58","start_line":3881,"text":"When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of\nflowers on old Allie's grave. I went with them a couple of times, but I cut it out. In the\nfirst place, I certainly don't enjoy seeing him in that crazy cemetery. Surrounded by dead\nguys and tombstones and all. It wasn't too bad when the sun was out, but twice--twice--\nwe were there when it started to rain. It was awful. It rained on his lousy tombstone, and\nit rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place. All the visitors that were\nvisiting the cemetery started running like hell over to their cars. That's what nearly drove\nme crazy. All the visitors could get in their cars and turn on their radios and all and then\ngo someplace nice for dinner--everybody except Allie. I couldn't stand it. I know it's only\nhis body and all that's in the cemetery, and his soul's in Heaven and all that crap, but I\n\n\ncouldn't stand it anyway. I just wish he wasn't there. You didn't know him. If you'd\nknown him, you'd know what I mean. It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only\ncomes out when it feels like coming out.\nAfter a while, just to get my mind off getting pneumonia and all, I took out my\ndough and tried to count it in the lousy light from the street lamp. All I had was three\nsingles and five quarters and a nickel left--boy, I spent a fortune since I left Pencey. Then\nwhat I did, I went down near the lagoon and I sort of skipped the quarters and the nickel\nacross it, where it wasn't frozen. I don't know why I did it, but I did it. I guess I thought\nit'd take my mind off getting pneumonia and dying. It didn't, though.\nI started thinking how old Phoebe would feel if I got pneumonia and died. It was a\nchildish way to think, but I couldn't stop myself. She'd feel pretty bad if something like\nthat happened. She likes me a lot. I mean she's quite fond of me. She really is. Anyway, I\ncouldn't get that off my mind, so finally what I figured I'd do, I figured I'd better sneak\nhome and see her, in case I died and all. I had my door key with me and all, and I figured\nwhat I'd do, I'd sneak in the apartment, very quiet and all, and just sort of chew the fat\nwith her for a while. The only thing that worried me was our front door. It creaks like a\nbastard. It's a pretty old apartment house, and the superintendent's a lazy bastard, and\neverything creaks and squeaks. I was afraid my parents might hear me sneaking in. But I\ndecided I'd try it anyhow.\nSo I got the hell out of the park, and went home. I walked all the way. It wasn't\ntoo far, and I wasn't tired or even drunk any more. It was just very cold and nobody\naround anywhere.\n21\nThe best break I had in years, when I got home the regular night elevator boy,\nPete, wasn't on the car. Some new guy I'd never seen was on the car, so I figured that if I\ndidn't bump smack into my parents and all I'd be able to say hello to old Phoebe and then\nbeat it and nobody'd even know I'd been around. It was really a terrific break. What made\nit even better, the new elevator boy was sort of on the stupid side. I told him, in this very\ncasual voice, to take me up to the Dicksteins'. The Dicksteins were these people that had\nthe other apartment on our floor. I'd already taken off my hunting hat, so as not to look\nsuspicious or anything. I went in the elevator like I was in a terrific hurry.\nHe had the elevator doors all shut and all, and was all set to take me up, and then\nhe turned around and said, \"They ain't in. They're at a party on the fourteenth floor.\"\n\"That's all right,\" I said. \"I'm supposed to wait for them. I'm their nephew.\"\nHe gave me this sort of stupid, suspicious look. \"You better wait in the lobby,\nfella,\" he said.\n\"I'd like to--I really would,\" I said. \"But I have a bad leg. I have to hold it in a\ncertain position. I think I'd better sit down in the chair outside their door.\"\nHe didn't know what the hell I was talking about, so all he said was \"Oh\" and took","title":"Chunk 9"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6FV1MS094QPPD7BPA0982X","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6FT59BXAZ3C5HRJ6SW8F58","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KFF1K6A8V452X8SQKY55DD16","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6FVM5HMZMD7PW31M1QCSXW","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6FVM5M764CN5QSYXBS5ASA","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T03:41:26.576Z","ts":"2026-01-30T03:41:31.549Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}