From a Flow Chart

                                                                                           Here

a moral dilemma socks one; is it better to remain single, conscious of the many

overlapping half-lives that with luck add up to one, or should

we be planted at many listening posts ready to radio vital information back to  

     whoever

stands at the long bar? And will my genuine if respectful indifference militate

against the neutrality of my performance? Is a conflict of interest shaping up, or

     what?"

Flow Chart by John Ashbery

The Noonday Press, 1998 paperback edition, p. 100