think about New Path? - While it doesn't matter... ...what I think, I kind of have to tip my hat to any entity... ...that can bring so much integrity to evil. I mean, imagine this: A seemingly voluntary, privatized gulag... ...managed to eliminate the middlemen of public accountability and free will. Wrapped it up in a bow and gave it like a gift. I mean, come on, this is: Phew! Whoot! This is awe-inspiring stuff. I heard you have to go cold turkey. Cold turkey doesn't even apply to Substance D. Unlike the legacy of inherited predisposition... ...to addictive behavior or substances... ...this needs no genetic assistance. There's no weekend warriors on the D. You're either on it... ...or you haven't tried it. - Well, I like it. - Yeah. How many caps do you take per day? Very difficult to determine. But not that many. Well, like the old-school pharmacopoeia, a tolerance develops, you know. These visions of bugs, they're just garden-variety psychosis... ...but a clear indication that you've hurdled... ...over the initial fun and euphoric phase and passed on... ...to the next phase. News from the guinea-pig grapevine suggests that whatever it is... ...we won't know until it's way too late, you see? You see that we're all canaries in the coalmine on this one? I do think I have another source. That Donna chick. - Bob's girl? - Yeah. Yeah, his girl. Although I know for a fact he never gets in her pants. - Really? - Yep. - But he talks like he does. - Oh, yeah. That's Bob Arctor. He talks like he does many things. That's not the same, my friend. That's not the same thing. Donna has an aversion to bodily contact. I mean, junkies lose their interest in sex, you realize... ...due to organs swelling up from vasoconstriction. And I have observed in her an inordinate failure of sexual arousal... ...not just toward Bob Arctor... ...but other males as well. I can't believe she doesn't put out. Well, she would if she were handled right. For instance, I could show you how to sleep with her... ...for less than 3 dollars. I don't wanna sleep with her. I wanna buy from her. Donna does coke, all right? Three dollars doesn't get you a line of coke. That's where you're wrong, pal. What they've deliberately done... ...is mix the cocaine with the oil so it cannot be extracted. But my knowledge of chemistry is such... ...that I know precisely how to separate the oil from the cocaine. Now, now I will freeze it. Cause cocaine crystals to rise to the top because they are lighter than the oil. The terminal step, of course, I keep to myself, but suffice to say... ...it involves an intricate and methodological process of filtering. How long is it gonna be in there? Just about a half an hour. You know, I've been thinking, Barris. Even if we do get a pure gram of cocaine out of this deal... ...I don't wanna use it on Donna to get in her pants. - That'd be like buying her. - No, it'd be an exchange. You give her a gift, and she gives you one. Ah! Besides, we're talking about Bob's girl here. Um... And this is his house. He's my friend. He lets you and Luckman live here. There's a great deal about Bob Arctor you're not aware of. How did New Path rig it? They're the one place in our entire country that can't be scanned. All the rest of us can be tracked 24 hours a day... ...but no, not at New Path. Hey, that's their contract with the government. But I think you're right, it would be a good place for a dealer to hide. What about Donna Hawthorne? I'm systematically working up to her supplier. The quantities I'm buying now are basically beyond her capacity. She doesn't have enough front money to handle it. Matter of time before she's hooking me up with the next person up the ladder. I think soon we'll have somebody who knows something... ...and they'll be worth busting. What about Jim Barris and Ernie Luckman? Same shit. Nothing ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Гарфилд: История двух кошечек на английском - текст Гранд Отель на английском - текст Займёмся любовью на английском - текст Не бойся, я с тобой! на английском - текст Один дома на английском |