This week the reading starts out talking about him working at the horse races and it goes on describing everything he had to. It also kind of gives tips towards how you bet on horses and things like that. He said that whenever he quit the races he had a feeling of emptiness but that was whenever he met his friend Mike Ward.
He goes to talk about stopping at this little cafe like place where Mrs. Stein would always want him to fill her in about all the gossip that went on at political meetings he went to. She did not want to know the tragic stuff though. She never wanted to know about the real part of the world, nor the bad part of it either, he said she only wanted to know about the "gay" part. He said that everytime he would stop in to talk to Mrs. Stein he would try to get her to talk about books but she never seemed as though she really cared about books, she was only concerned with the gossip going on in the world.
He continues on to talk about how in Paris you could sit outside at the tables and see and smell the food that people had. He said that the Closerie des Lilas was the nearest good cafe whenever he lived in Paris. He says that it was warm inside during the winter and fine inside during the spring and fall. He goes on to tell how the cafe use to be somewhere where poets met to discuss their poems. He said that the people there at the cafe made it comfortable because they seemed as though they all had interest in one another, whether it been their reading or what they were drinking.
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