The Night of Rose's Breakdown

I suggested to jerry that since he'd wanted all the people in the story to collide in a ballet, perhaps if rose's breakdown were to be sung rather than danced, it would comprise fragments of all the songs associated with her. He asked me to improvise. I don't like improvising in front of other people. But sitting at a piano in a deserted, ghostly auditorium with a man i considered a genius was too glamorous to resist. As i pounded out variations on the burlesque music, jerry clambered on to the stage and started to move back and forth across it like a stripper, but a clumsy one, like rose doing a strip. That

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