As if he were warming up for writing his 350,000 word opus A Ball of Twine, Kurt wrote reams in 1982, including this segment from an unnamed manuscript. In it we find many of the topics which dominated Kurt's thoughts, including mathematics, word etymology, Segre's figure, Finnegans Wake, Tibetan Buddhism and late-night television. "For whatever it's worth, at 11:32 p.m. (which of course is 23:32, a palindromic number) Johnny would finally quiet down the applause in Burbank while Jackie would be making his appearance on the set in "The Honeymooners" in the East (Carson and Gleason, respectively)."
