The Dharma Bums-quote response

Page 94:
*" I had worked the blood clots right out of exixtance. I felt very happy."
-- Ray is talking about his bad circulation and his clotting again. Apparently his climbing the mountain had completely cleared the veins in his foot of all clots and so now he is therefore clot free. Smith is now ecstatic because he had always ahd a problem with blood clotting and now he's clear.

Page 96:
*" Good, I'll get Morley's car andbe over to get you first thing in the morning, but right now how about some of that wine?"
-- Ray says this to Coughlin after they are both already drunk. This shows, once again, how much of an alcoholic Ray Smith really is. In this story one of his particularly favorite drinks is wine and he is constantly talking about drinking it.

Page 118;
* "Just stand on your head three minutes a day, or mebbe five minutes. Every morning when I get up whether its's in a riverbottom or right on a train that's rollin along, I put a little mat on the floor and I stand on my head and count to five hundred, that's about three minutes ins't it?" "Just do that every day and your phlebitis will go away like my arthritis did."
-- A bum and Ray are discussing the factors of how to treat phlebitis. The funny thing is that Ray lets himself be taugh by a bum on how to cure himself. A completley sensible person would undertand that the process the bum explains is complete bullcrap. There is no way in heck that standing on your head could cure an inflammation on the inside of a vein wall. THis quote is funny because of the techniques shared.