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the buffalo dips its nose down the bank and now it's opening up the floor power we are racing across and side by side will us go racing the other buffalo racing for that hell on the other side the searchlights got the white beam now right across the river on one side of us with a head of his only red water the

curtains carrying us down and we're putting up our nose against it going clean across it over time and the place is making a path on either side of us I'm feeding down the opposition, right out of the mitzvahs, swirling stream.

You've got a complete feeling of detachment. Waiting all the time with the enemy to open up. The sputters as we lie, helpless as it seems. Out here on this wide stream, it is the point that it's nose upstream now.

We're tripping the current to get over. And just the other way of a buffalo is dipping down and coming out behind. And you've got a feeling of a resistible power flooding now across the ride.