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The bus roo McMurphy called the library It was actually quite cozy Aabove a chess set On the walls were shelves bursting with books, y texts beside precarious columns of yellowed paperbacks
There were also hundreds of frahts, McMurphy in a Green Beret army uniform with his arm around a couple of other soldiers A lot of them were of hippie people from the sixties There was a shot of an absolutely beautiful blond wo the flute One of a young, bearded McMurphy with so Jesus shirts, sitting around a ca-haired children in their bathing suits on the shore of a lake, playing with ponies and goats and dogs
Mary Catherine gestured at the photographs
“What’s your story, Mr McMurphy?” she said “How’d you do all this?”
“Didn’t I already tell you we dug out the side of the hill with a bulldozer and buried the buses one by one and welded theos?”
“I meant more like why,” Mary Catherine said “Why are you here in this place? How’d you get here, if you don’t ?”
McMurphy sighed and leaned back as he crossed his legs
“You want rew up outside San Fran Five kids in the faht-shift nurse at a h to get a scholarship to Berkeley I was just about to get ree when a fit of conscience made me drop out and hitch up with the army
“When I returned to the States, I soroup of writers and artists and drug addicts that would end up being called the Merry Pranksters I actually stayed at Ken Kesey’s house for a while I really ad The parties were a true goof”
“I can iine,” Mary Catherine said
“Wanna bet?” McMurphy said, winking at her “Anyway, one day in late ’sixty-eight, instead of relaxing and just having some innocent fun, these new people ca about thea political ht the heck out of there I eventually ended up here with sorid, off the land”
“Who’s the pretty lady with the flute?”
“She was one now, obviously Took off in the early eighties, when I started building this boone Just me now The last of the Mohicans Bilbo McMurphy, the last hobbit, at your service”
He looked around the roo
“I kno I ht? You’re thinking thisin a hole in the ground”