Part 2, Kate McCloud, p. 99 - 124 Summary

After a busy week working for Miss Self and tired of the atmosphere of the YMCA, Jones takes himself out to the all-night movie show, passing New York's seedy street life along the way. After astonishing himself by shouting back at a street preacher, Jones hurries into the first movie house he sees, which happens to be showing a film starring Montgomery Clift. Recognizing the actor leads Jones into a lengthy anecdote about a dinner party hosted by Turner Boatwright in Clift's honor at which the other guests were Tallulah Bankhead, Estelle Winwood, and Dorothy Parker. The anecdote ends with a crude reference to Clift's homosexual orientation, and Jones returns his narrative focus to the movie theater where he could not stay awake and so went to a bar. There he found the card given...