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There was more, as well — unconnected jumbles of stuff, like the contents of a wastebasket. Kurtz didn't look put out by that, but he looked intent. Facing the street you could still read TRACKER BROTHERS SHIPPING TRUCKING AND STORAGE in fading white paint on the old red brick. The music swelled toward a crescendo, something symphonic.

He partially folded the stiff paper gown that had covered his lap, and laid it on the paddedseat. His throat knotted as each huge bite went down. yer's life, he had read that you could eat moss if you were lost in the woods, that moss wouldn't hurt you. Well, didn't they say that psychiatrists eventually ended up as loony as their patients, if not more so? The important thing was that he was finally full.