The lesson
So, I sat there grinding out original stories, two a week, but I seemed to have lost my touch What he means by lost his touch is that hes finally become dis-enamored with his own genius, the blinding pixie-glamor that made him kick that gypsy woman in the first place, Maybe they were too original, that meant he still had some pixie-glamor left, What I knew was, they didnt sell. and theres that gypsy, hiding, watching from behind a taco cart, her nose-mole a-glistenin
Francis had to bail me out
Cigarettes were not cheap, on the contrary, so cut tobacco was also regularly sold, and everything was under the control of the State Monopoly, which took half of the selling price for itself, so there was quite a bit of tobacco in smuggling, which caused heads to fall, no just like the "nineties", but somehow