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Recordings

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The Heart is Meat

Samaritan

Page 42. Michael tries to step between a bleeding kid and a group of angry shop owners armed with clubs and two by fours, trying to stop a street beating.  Everyone ignores him. 

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Twitty Twist

Page 28. Michael and Tex have some titty twisting fun in the main cooler. 

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Hicksville

Page 18. Michael runs into Hicksville Bill.

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Spectres

Page 8. In the dark of pre-dawn 13th street, Michael wanders through a mystical land and contemplates existence. 

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Wally and Frenchy

Page 56 Frenchy, a hero of the French resistance decorated by de Gaulle, tells Michael and the boys he just discovered Wally's body, the victim of a robbery a couple of blocks away.  Wally ran a meat truck and was "one of those creatures so shambling and dismal he carried his own dark cloud with him everywhere (complete with mini rain storm)."

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Pig Knuckles

Page 16. At dawn, Michael is sent one block east to Pork Packers to get two boxes of pig knuckles as a favor to a long-time customer. Since a set number of whole hogs comes in each day, there is a limited amount of pig knuckles any given day and Teddy the owner of Pork Packers is not happy about the request. 

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