“No we are—we recycle we do not—this is where junk comes to—”

“Madame I wish to buy many tons of junk I will pay enough to recycle many more things it is for art. When the art has been viewed I will return the junk to you as junk if no one buys it you will get free junk plus money. This is a good thing.”

“Yaaaawuh and what do you get?”

“I get art madame I do not need money. Rich people are forever giving me money for art but part of that process is scarcity. This art can be ephemeral so that my other art is expensive.”

“That is good business.”

“I am an artist that does not mean I must be an innocent adrift in the world madame.”

“…What junk do you need?”

“Auto parts and airplane panels also any ethnic Swiss schlock you may have.”

“Ethnic—”

“Many of your fine hotels and eating establishments and so on here feature cowbells and such also many cows but I am assuming there is ultimately wastage and recycling of same.”

“Yes that is true.”

“I wish to buy cowbells and aluminum car parts for use as art. Ideally in this quantity which I have written on this paper.”

“This is a large quantity but…yes I suppose it is possible.”

“Excellent here is money. Please deliver half of it to this address here and half to the Kircheisen Festung for the art fair marked to my attention.”

“O you are with Herr Eiger?”

“He will be thrilled I promise you.”

He will not but sometimes art is really just for the artist I guess.

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Charlie is not bored Charlie is fine. While I was in Iceland Charlie went to see Bruno and she is very excited about ecoterrorism and she would like that we take a few weeks after this job to do some pro bono environmental work. Bruno evidently understands Charlie very well because he took her on a job under the water and they plugged Z-Vat in an illegal outflow together and had sex in the water—not the outflow water some clean clear water upstream—and then had sex on a barge in front of some sort of boat-safe smokeless stove. I do not entirely get how you have sex in a dry suit but if anyone can do it that person is Charlie. Charlie figures we could kill the Japanese whaling industry in a month and move on to illegal logging in the Amazon next year and in this she has Doc’s cautious agreement because it is undeniable that if the earth catches fire and falls over then being rich will be considerably less fun than it is now and Doc feels this is a very real scientific possibility owing to feedback and shit that I do not understand but I trust Doc. If Doc says this is bad it is bad and Doc does so that is fine.