Inspired by the beauty of the Marrakeshian morning, LA gets up earlier than usual. LA and Thoth walk to

the cafe to get a morning Galette with honey. A galette is a Moroccan crepe-like thing which is stuffed with a variety of fillings—miel, fromage, poulet, legumes. However, the cafe is closed like many other shops (Friday is Jumwha--a day of prayer). LA and Thoth search for another place and find the café Bahia a few shops down. The waiter asks them to sing. “We’ll sing for a free galette,” Thoth says. The waiter agrees. Thoth returns to Riad Espagna to get his violin. Thoth has an epiphany: Perhaps they have been going at this all wrong. Of course they won’t beg, but they can demand compensation for their musical gifts. Whenever someone asks them to sing, they can request a trade for dinner or a cous cous bowl or a soda or supplies. After all, to get those things requires money. The staff of Chez Bahia receives LA and Thoth's playing and singing well, and the owner invites them back at 13:00 for cous cous and tangine. When they return to Espagna, Thoth plays the violin in the salon for an hour. Then LA and Thoth pack their bags and go to Riad Beautiful Dreams to get the promised free room. At Riad Beautiful Dreams, the service man rudely refuses to let them take their bags up to room 7 and lies, claiming the Riad is fully booked. LA and Thoth are angry at him. They can tell that no one is in the place. Every door is open with a key in the lock. The manager seems not to have let the service man know LA and Thoth would be returning to move back in. And the manager has "gone out," according to the service man. LA and Thoth sit in the vestibule working on their computers and waiting for the manager. Three hours later, the service man tells them that the manager has gone to Fes and won’t be back till 8 tomorrow morning. LA goes to Riad Espagna to get the room back. Upon returning, she tells Thoth that the managers of Espagna claim to be fully booked and their room has been given away. She says she yelled at them for being unfair. Now what do they do? Things seemed to be looking up. Now, suddenly, they are looking at a possibility of sleeping in the streets again. LA and Thoth explain the problem to the service man and he offers to let them stay for 100 DH. LA pays him convinced that when the manager returns they will get the money back. Thoth is not so sure. The Dynamic Duo goes back to Chez Bahia to perform and get dinner. More tangine. This time it is overcooked and burnt with a piece of stringy beef. After eating, LA and Thoth both feel terrible—too much food after starving for several days. Thoth has a sore throat; they are both bloated with indigestion and gas. A young man likes their music and invites them over to his house. He calls himself Abdel and tells Thoth he is a DJ who creates music from samples of classical, Irish, Indian, . . . LA and Thoth go to Abdel’s house where he rolls a joint of hash and tobacco, and plays one of his musical assemblages. Fairly interesting for electronic music. He is a very talkative young man. Not feeling well from the dinner, LA feels sleepy because of her sensitivity to smoke from Abdel’s joint. Abdel is interested in Thoth's “bag of tricks,” so Thoth takes out the Mapa de Vida, Bob’s Tarot Cards, and the Spirit Catcher. Thoth explains the Mapa. Each time he does so, he learns more about it. Then Thoth does a Tarot reading for Abdel. He is not sure how to work with cards when they come up negatively like the cards for the woman in Athens. The nine of disques--”faillite” or "failure" comes up as an outcome. Thoth realizes that he should just read them objectively rather than fear how people will receive the negative meaning. Upon returning to the Riad Beautiful Dreams, the service man stops us and hands back the 100DH bill. The light of the manager’s office is on. Perhaps things have changed after all. Thoth takes a shower and shaves. It has been a couple of days. The bathroom is a dump—wet, sloppy, and dirty. Thoth hates communal bathrooms, except for the one in Amsterdam which was actually quite wonderful.