![]() ![]() ![]() He says he has no business acting in Europe, though, and goes on a tirade about how he undermines people's morale. He tells her he may be going to France in the summer to make a movie based on a novel Zooey likes. Zooey catches Franny silently reciting the Jesus Prayer. He also insults Hess's script for being sentimental and pat. Franny asks him about the script from LeSage, and Zooey ridicules it for its psychoanalytic jargon. At the bar, Hess lectured him about how his whole family was crazy, and finally handed him a new television script. Zooey says it did, and that later at night his writer friend Dick Hess called him asking to meet up for a drink. Franny asks if his script came last night, as LeSage said it would. Zooey looks at an old photo of his parents, in costume, on the cover of sheet music for a song. ![]() Bloomberg, the family cat, crawls out of the blanket and up to Franny, who kisses him. ![]() One of her professors, an egotist whom she dislikes, was there, she says. She tells him about a nightmare in which people kept making her dive for a can of coffee. Zooey sits on the coffee table opposite the couch as he smokes a cigar and rouses Franny. Les, their father and, alongside Bessie, a former vaudevillian, has decorated the walls with mementos of the family's entertainment past. Franny sleeps on the couch in the well-worn living room, which is far too cluttered for the painters to begin their work. ![]()
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