Chapter 12

I took a cab to a Greenwich Village nightclub, Ernie’s, a place where I used to go with D. B. The cab driver was named Horwitz, and he seemed a pretty friendly guy. well atleast i thought thsi of him until i tried to ask him about the ducks in the Central Park lagoon, he got all touchy and I was quite suprised really. I mean all i wanted to no was where the ducks go in winter, but thought i was tring to take the piss ou tof him!! At Ernie’s, I listened to him play the piano but was unimpressed.i sat down at the table and ordered a Scotch and soda1 whilst i was sat there i listened to the conversations around me, which I found quite depressing and phony. I bumped into an obnoxious girl named Lillian Simmons, who D. B. used to date! boy did she annoy me even here phoney date seemed unimpressed by her, to escape the goddam phoney I swiftly left the nightclub