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To finish note [[Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/390|390]] on my weekend. I came home, Adele{{LJ:Adele}} wanted to go to the movies, I wanted to stay home and have Lipton’s. She accepted. First we made love, then took Lipton’s. (I was repelled a little by how I had abused the act of love the night before by using it for fuckanalysis-with-Lipton’s, so I wanted to do without it.) After love-making which was a touch flat for us, we took Lipton’s—(by God, I call it Lipton’s because my lip delivers tons of words | To finish note [[Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/390|390]] on my weekend. I came home, Adele{{LJ:Adele}} wanted to go to the movies, I wanted to stay home and have Lipton’s. She accepted. First we made love, then took Lipton’s. (I was repelled a little by how I had abused the act of love the night before by using it for fuckanalysis-with-Lipton’s, so I wanted to do without it.) After love-making which was a touch flat for us, we took Lipton’s—(by God, I call it Lipton’s because my lip delivers tons of words)—and merely felt passive, dopey, and flat. First time that had happened, and I realized the reason. When there is sexual energy in me, Lipton’s makes me creative. It floods my intelligence with sexual energy. But when I am temporarily sexually depleted, Lipton’s merely fuddles me. Which would account for why Dan{{LJ:Wolf}} always sinks into a semi-coma when he takes Lipton’s. His sexual energy is forever low because he must use it to maintain the intolerable contradictions of his personality. | ||
Anyway, we lay around, watched television which was mildly pleasant but not stimulating in the insights it gave me as it usually is, and then just as we were about to go to bed at eleven, I felt energy returning, and we took Lipton’s again. This time I was full of energy—my sexual energy seems to take about two hours to return—and I got out the tape recorder, and Adele and I had an uproarious half-hour making a mock Tex and Jinx program, a Break the Bloody Bank program with the Sixty-Nine Dollar question, and so forth.{{refn|[[w:Tex McCrary|John “Tex” McCrary]] (1910-2003) and [[w:Jinx Falkenburg|Eugenia “Jinx” Falkenburg]] (1919-2003) were radio and television talk show hosts in the 1950s. [[w:Break the Bank (1945 game show)|''Break the Bank'']] was a television quiz show hosted by [[w:Bert Parks|Bert Parks]] from 1948-1957.}} I gave my Brando imitations.{{refn|{{NM}} performed these for many years, drawing on the roles played by [[w:Marlon Brando|Marlon Brando]] (1924-2004) in three of his best films, ''On the Waterfront'' (1954), ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' (1951), and ''The Wild One'' (1953).}} (Listening to them the following night, I found ''Waterfront'' and ''Streetcar'' disappointing, but ''The Wild One'' was extraordinary.) Then Seconal{{LJ:Seconal}} and to happy bed and sleep. | Anyway, we lay around, watched television which was mildly pleasant but not stimulating in the insights it gave me as it usually is, and then just as we were about to go to bed at eleven, I felt energy returning, and we took Lipton’s again. This time I was full of energy—my sexual energy seems to take about two hours to return—and I got out the tape recorder, and Adele and I had an uproarious half-hour making a mock Tex and Jinx program, a Break the Bloody Bank program with the Sixty-Nine Dollar question, and so forth.{{refn|[[w:Tex McCrary|John “Tex” McCrary]] (1910-2003) and [[w:Jinx Falkenburg|Eugenia “Jinx” Falkenburg]] (1919-2003) were radio and television talk show hosts in the 1950s. [[w:Break the Bank (1945 game show)|''Break the Bank'']] was a television quiz show hosted by [[w:Bert Parks|Bert Parks]] from 1948-1957.}} I gave my Brando imitations.{{refn|{{NM}} performed these for many years, drawing on the roles played by [[w:Marlon Brando|Marlon Brando]] (1924-2004) in three of his best films, ''On the Waterfront'' (1954), ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' (1951), and ''The Wild One'' (1953).}} (Listening to them the following night, I found ''Waterfront'' and ''Streetcar'' disappointing, but ''The Wild One'' was extraordinary.) Then Seconal{{LJ:Seconal}} and to happy bed and sleep. | ||