And maybe some
technological unemployment. But you're not in any narrow technical
field. As a matter of fact in not being specialized you actually
have an advantage. All you've got to do is go after things.
TED. Easy to say.
KEN. Easy to do. Part of your trouble is your environment.
TED. My environment?
KEN. Sure. Tippy here is make-shifting--but that's all right. It's
something. Martin's radical, living off his wits. That's not your
style. Neither of them can help you.
TED. They have helped me.
KEN. They've weakened you. For Christ's sake, Ted, snap out of it.
Get away from here. Get away from it all. Make a break. You won't
starve. If you can't get a real job, go on relief.
TED. Relief!
KEN. I know relief isn't pleasant for a man like you. But hell,
it's better than ...
TED. Let's not discuss it.
KEN. It's high time you did discuss it. You can't go on the way
you're doing.
TED. Did I ask for your advice?
KEN. Now don't get sore. I'm trying to help you.
TED. The hell with your help!
KEN. All right. You don't want advice and you won't take it. What
are you going to do? Go on living off Kate forever?
TED. That's my affair.
KEN. It's your affair, but everybody knows it. And everybody knows
what it is. It's the second oldest profession in the world--and the
lousiest one.
TED. [_Wildly._] Drop it, I say!
KEN.
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