9. Nightlife & Recreation
Just as the Watsonians created their own "Slums," so also they
have their own "red-light district"--not from any economic necessity
but simply because they enjoy sloth and vice. After dark, Godown
St. becomes a den of iniquity and doesn't close till
dawn. Night-trippers start with a meal in China St., move on to the
Cannibal Cafe for coffee, thence to Euphoria (a casino), The Johann
Most Memorial Dance Hall (a rock palace), Bishop Sin's Massage Parlor
(the closest thing to a brothel in Sonsorol), The Unrepentant Faggot
(a gay bar), Cafe' Voltairine (a lesbian club), Eat The Rich! (a
late-nite snackbar) and other short-lived fancifully-named
dives. Usually these clubs consist of no more than a ramshackle
lean-to in an alley between two warehouses painted in lurid colors and
perhaps boasting a dadaesque neon sign. Visitors take note: you're not
exactly risking your life on Godown St., but one never knows (so to
speak) what's in the punch. Watsonians need never pine for the
insanity of big city life: it's all concentrated here--without a
single policeman to restrain the madness. As one grafitto in the
(co-ed) toilet at the Cannibal Cafe puts it: "After midnight the
Social Contract is cancelled! (signed) The Lord of Misrule."
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