I met a man

Where?

In a gutter. We were at once friends.

O homogeneities of cotemporaneous antiloxo-dromachy!

He would try to stand on his head. O divinely crapulent hysteron-proteron!

“Our meeting,” he said, is a palingenesis of Paradise; hast thou, O Philadelphian, hast thou eighteen pence?”

I embraced him—I wept, I have it not, I shrieked—or—

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Whom do I love? Whom do I admire? Not two lounging in a carriage, but twelve bulging out of a cart.

I am not respectable. You are an idiot.