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A kosher Freudian would answer thusly: the state of
being balmy; of having misplaced the marbles, loos-
ened the screw.

Follow-up query: and you actually mean to con-
clude that just because a close friend gets quiet on
occasion and on other occasions fibsтАФthis is proof to
you that he is becoming loony tunes?

No, I guess not, but I also can't sit here and ignore
the fact that this very afternoon in front of God and
everybody, he got, for the first time in his life, a mi-
graineтАФcan you believe that?тАФin the igyo'sPтАФit's right
out of a Joannie Crawford flick for chrissakes.

He was being quiet for what I thought was too long
a period, so I asked, "Something the matter?"
No, should there be?" Corky answered.

But a little too innocent for me to buy completely,
so I hit him with a follow-up: "You sure been staring
out the window for a while."

"I'm thinking is all."

"About?"

He shrugs. "Things."
"That's pretty specific."

MAGIC 13

"Nothing, really, fust a couple little things that are
maybe kind of bothering me,"

"Schmucko," I said logically and soft *Tf things
are bothering you then logically, by definition, some-
thing must be the matter. So I simply ask again,
what?"

тАФand he explodesтАФ

Corky. Yelling, screaming. The same Corky who is
so sweet you want to whoopse, as I never tire of point-
ing out to him, is insulting the shit out of me.

This is my journal, and I can put in what I want to
put in and leave out what I want to leave out and I
choose to leave out the details of the abuse. But it