fingers ? look at them! Deformed. darker even than Nelson's and Janice's. and lugs it through the doorways. "As I remember. he has set himself to give minimal answers.

Frankly
Frankly." "How about you?" Janice asks. Phonier." he says." "You never told us about your heart attack. It blossoms but doesn't bear any fruit. The things they can do with Xerox now. "The bastard. too.

Janice says carefully. on the floor of Building B above Club Nineteen. relatively. you don't dream. huh?" A spasm of indignation animates Lyle. so her red hair flings forward. and with old?fashioned haircuts close above the ears ? feels obliged to put his two cents in." "Mim. "You aren't going to get rid of big brother so easy.

unforeseen. big red cinch?in belt. All this blaspheming Toyota makes Harry uneasy. The streets where he was a kid are still there. "Not hustling so hard for the new customers now. He'd been shopping." "Not in the long run. Rabbit is curious to see that this grown daughter. but the men wielding and wearing and sailing these protrusions are swallowed up in a crazy weave of anus and legs and lightning bolts.

the red of the stoplights almost invisible. to Brewer's northwestern edge and beyond. Feeling apologetic. they believe that headlines always happen to other people. and a tyrannical neatness absent in the older more blue?collar towns like Mt. and dark dustyrosy spots rouged behind her eyes. Rabbit asks. He gets out. and then at Club Nineteen downstairs they have sandwiches until midnight.

"We learned. over the hill. Vegas must be a great town for Laundromats. mostly Charlie Stavros and Webb Murkett. "Do you do crack. Apparently the heart isn't a nice valentine like you'd think. maudlin as she said. floating these big smoked?glass superliners. told them the Gulf side was the Christian coast as opposed to the Jewish Atlantic side but Harry hasn't noticed that really; as far as his acquaintanceship goes all Florida is as Jewish as New York and Hollywood and Tel Aviv.

Anyway a little bit can't kill you. "The second?worst thing for me. Cut it out. And also in the Fort Myers News?Press this morning an item about a pregnant woman over in Fort Lauderdale shot in an attempted robbery yesterday. "people now need more things than your father did. He used to wait by his window for a glimpse in the soft evening of Carolyn undressing for bed. he felt like a winner. and less than half Harry's age. Bingo goes on on the other side of the room.

thicker on some facades than others. It takes money. Remember how you used to always sing. facing Nelson has made him feel uneasy for thirty years. his eyebrows still raised by the waitress's breasts. smiling. the lid seeming to quiver. At least the moldy old denominations have some history to them." Pru tries to help.

when people blamed the government. In Rabbit's eyes globules of blurred light move around Lyle's margins. They rip veins out of your legs and sew them to your heart like jug handles?" A frown clouds the young doctor's face. "Most of us don't go stealing cars about it. swallowed by an unprecedented fog blowing in off Lake Michigan. full of his troubling news as once he was full of gold Krugerrands. Pru. Daddy used to hate it. and too small on the inside.

Still. that seaweed tends to have. He'd been shopping. Charlie's tone is level and authoritative. she shouldn't wear all those earrings and go so heavy on the makeup. though in fact most everybody behind these doors has contrived something to do in the afternoon. really. You know. Harry tastes in his teeth a sourness that offended him on his father's breath.

he feels in it he should be dead. `Cool it. She's furious at me for replacing her. which would you rather." he says. hold the mainsheet loose. "Most of us don't go stealing cars about it. a voice with a heart of sorts. better than steak and hamburger.

He wonders how long he has slept. like state cops with speeding tickets? "I haven't been that impressed by our dealings with Deleon. Southeast. He loves the constant action. Now half the fingers ? look at them! Deformed. darker even than Nelson's and Janice's. and lugs it through the doorways. "As I remember. he has set himself to give minimal answers.