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He released his own. "I like that. Slim Walker. Cool."
I mentally blessed my malodorous roommate. "I guess." Like I didn't care one way or another.
Slinky John snorted. "Don't bogart that joint, Slim."
"Wow, man," Bill said a moment later. "I can actually see his smell."
Slinky lost his toke and coughed. "Holy shit," he managed to croak, "Me too. Pale green, right?"
"Like a zero gravity lava lamp."
By golly, they were right. "It's actually a little easier to take, that way," I said.
"You know, Slim's right," Bill said. "It's not so bad, seeing it."
After several seconds, Slinky John said, "TrueтАФbut hearing his face was a little hard to take," and all
three of us got the giggles.
Within a few days, most of the people whose opinion I cared about had managed to find at least a little
compassion and tolerance for Smelly in their hearts, and lungs. And the rest stayed as far away as if a
restraining order were in place, which suited me fine. Privacy is a rare and sweet commodity in a men's
dorm. It was worth a little stink to have peace and quiet.



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3.
In a movie, Zandor Zudenigo and I would have gradually but steadily become good friends. I'm honestly
not even sure we ever managed to became good acquaintances. Maybe by the end of that year we had
become good strangers.
He was just too weird to befriend. And I speak as one with a higher than normal tolerance for weirdness.
He was away a lot, and when he was there he rarely spoke voluntarily, and when he did it was often in
monosyllables or gruntsтАФbut there was more to it than that.
It reminded me of Gertrude Stein's famous crack about Oakland, "There's no there, there." You couldn't
get a purchase on him; it was like trying to make a snowman out of bubbles.
Hundreds of times I found myself wondering what was going on behind those moist squinting eyes of
his. Not once did I ever have a clue. I not only never knew what he was thinking, I rarely knew even in