波德莱尔是driv第1部分加利利搭顺风车的人ing a Model A across Galilee. He picked up a hitch-hiker named Jesus who had been standing among a school of fish, feeding them pieces of bread. 'Where are you going?' asked Jesus, getting into the front seat. 'Anywhere, anywhere out of this world!' shouted Baudelaire. 'I'll go with you as far as Golgotha,' said Jesus. 'I have a concession at the carnival there, and I must not be late.' The American Hotel Part 2 Baudelaire was sitting in a doorway with a wino on San Fransisco's skid row. The wino was a million years old and could remember dinosaurs. Baudelaire and the wino were drinking Petri Muscatel. 'One must always be drunk,' said Baudelaire. 'I live in the American Hotel,' said the wino. 'And I can remember dinosaurs.' 'Be you drunken ceaselessly,' said Baudelaire. 1939 Part 3 Baudelaire used to come to our house and watch me grind coffee. That was in 1939 and we lived in the slums of Tacoma. My mother would put the coffee beans in the grinder. I was a child and would turn the handle, pretending that it was a hurdy-gurdy, and Baudelaire would pretend that he was a monkey, hopping up and down and holding out a tin cup. The Flowerburgers Part 4 Baudelaire opened up a hamburger stand in San Fransisco, but he put flowers between the buns. People would come in and say, 'Give me a hamburger with plenty of onions on it.' Baudelaire would give them a flowerburger instead and the people would say, 'What kind of a hamburger stand is this?' The Hour of Eternity Part 5 'The Chinese read the time in the eyes of cats,' said Baudelaire and went into a jewelry store on Market Street. He came out a few moments later carrying a twenty-one jewel Siamese cat that he wore on the end of a golden chain. Salvador Dali Part 6 'Are you or aren't you going to eat your soup, you bloody odd cloud merchant?' Jeanne Duval shouted, hitting Baudelaire on the back as he sat daydreaming out the window. Baudelaire was startled. Then he laughed like hell, waving his spoon in the air like a wand changing the room into a painting by Salvador Dali, changing the room into a painting by Van Gogh. A Baseball Game Part 7 Baudelaire went to a baseball game and bought a hot dog and lit up a pipe of opium. The New York Yankees were playing the Detroit Tigers. In the fourth inning an angel committed suicide by jumping off a low cloud. The angel landed on second base, causing the whole infield to crack like a huge mirror. The game was called on account of fear. Insane Asylum Part 8 Baudelaire went to the insane asylum disguised as a psychiatrist. He stayed there for two months and when he left, the insane asylum loved him so much that it followed him all over California, and Baudelaire laughed when the insane asylum rubbed itself up against his leg like a strange cat. My Insect Funeral Part 9 When I was a child I had a graveyard where I buried insects and dead birds under a rose tree. I would bury the insects in tin foil and match boxes. I would bury the birds in pieces of red cloth. It was all very sad and I would cry as I scooped the dirt into their small graves with a spoon. Baudelaire would come and join in my insect funerals, saying little prayers the size of dead birds. San Fransisco February 1958