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this huge brute, snorting and galloping. of something in the saddle bag. I was I tell this story because unfortunately
... I found after a while my bottom was quite comfy.” there seems to be a dearth of sponge
bleeding from bouncing up and down rubber in Jordon or I must have inherit-
on this snorting great dragon.”
“I went to Beirut buy sponge rubber and
it was, I remember, mucous membrane
pink. And I arrived back to my Bedou-
in friend with this lump of thick rubber
and I stuffed it, shamelessly onto my
saddle. ... But after a while they looked
and they saw it was quite comfy, too,
and they could bounce more easily on
sponge rubber than you could on wood-
en hump, so they began to ask me to buy
more.

So I was requisitioning tons of this
damn stuff, yards of it. I think I intro-
duced sponge rubber into Arabian cul-
ture. ... They called me [in Arabic] ‘the
father of rubber’… I had a transistor
radio plugged into my ears and I had a
cigarette going and I had a little bottle

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