You""ll have to pick it up yourself, madam.It""s a shame, but he doesn""t care for the flesh.He""ll never see it.Jean speaks tartly to both the "bookworm" and one beauty with "nice store teeth all beaming" who wishes o catch his attentive eye.I mean, you get ""em all stirred up, and what""s the good? Now you made a mess.You gotta think about other people, you know.Well, I mean, look, look, I don""t like to complain, but, I mean, this is ridiculous.They don""t bother anybody.They don""t destroy anything.You know hey""re there.You leave ""em alone, they leave you alone.You lock up what you don""t want crawled over, and that""s that.But all of a sudden, you start spraying that stuff on the walls, and look at the mess.When they duck away into her apartment to escape the chaos among the other tenants in the stairway, Kirsten laughs and jokes with Joe - with a warning: "You""ve undermined the whole base of metabolism of the building" and that the cockroaches would track him down: "You""ll be a goner!"While drinking one night together by the SF Bay, Kirsten ells boozing Joe about a dream she had of being murdered, and the fact that her father was very private and uncommunicative during her upbringing.Afterwards, they played a game of Twister, and when she became "smashed" and she suggested a kiss, he told her that she was drunk and it wasn""t right.So you don""t worry about it.You say to yourself, ""I""ve got plenty of time to worry about that.I""ll just put off thinking about it."" And then suddenly it is upon you.It was just three months ago, exactly three months ago, that the storm broke here.It was an ordinary day, very much like any other day.I had caught he commuters"" train home, as usual.It was late, as usual....Exasperated but in a low-key tone, he tells the story of his beautiful daughter Kay""s (Elizabeth Taylor) casual announcement of her engagement and all the ceremonial requirements and events leading up to the wedding over a period of three months.