JERRY: All right. Who are your favourite writers? Baudelaire and J.P.
Marquand?

PETER: [wary] Well, I like a great many writers; I have a considerable
... catholicity of taste, if I may say so. Those two men are fine,
each in his way. [Warming up] Baudelaire, of course ... uh ... is
by far the finer of the two, but Marquand has a place ... in our
... uh ... national ...

JERRY: Skip it.

PETER: I ... sorry.

JERRY: Do you know what I did before I went to the zoo today? I
walked all the way up Fifth Avenue from Washington Square;
all the way.

PETER: Oh; you live in the Village! [This seems to enlighten Peter.]

JERRY: No, I don't. I took the subway down to the Village so I could
walk all the way up Fifth Avenue to the zoo. It's one of those
things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very
long distance out of his way to come back a short distance
correctly.

PETER: [almost pouting] Oh, I thought you lived in the Village.

JERRY: What were you trying to do? Make sense out of things?

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