AG: Yeah. Does anybody like “Dip him in the river who loves water”? I’ve never understood it.
Student: I love it.
AG: What does that mean? I don’t know what (it means). All these years. What does it mean? What do you guess at it as?
Student: Uh, maybe it’s like the excess thing.
AG: Uh-huh.
Student: If you want it, good for you.
AG: Or if you want to go for it, go (for it)
Student: If it feels good, do it.
AG: Yeah. Okay.
Peter Orlovsky: It’s what they do in Russia. It was in the National Geographic magazine. I saw it a couple of years ago, these Russians they lay down in the stream with their swimming trunks on in the winter time with snow on the ground. It’s the people who like to go out and play in the cold weather. So he’s saying….
AG: He didn’t say “ice water,” he just said….
Peter Orlovsky: He said throw them in the fucking river, man! He’s going to help us drown!.
AG: Yeah.
Peter Orlovsky: Keep them down in there!
AG: Well, there’s a difference…
to be continued