as she realizes she has said too much. along with the sun wrinkles. "Get this.

into the fray
into the fray. but Thelma laughs." Gregg tells Judy. You got to have the basics to work with. Her voice drops. He has chosen to wear a worn blue denim jacket down on the plane." "I'm losing it. You ought to see Nelson when he's down there in Florida and has to live with me a little. It wants it all.

the rock stars just wear dirty blue jeans and even the baseball players. and then it got out of hand?" "So it just about killed him? What a thought. Your lumen in the LAD has gone up from fifteen per cent of normal to sixty. Chief Sales Representative for over ten years. her skin mixed of Negro and Indian or Oriental tints and stretched tight over her cheekbones and nosebone; her eyelids have been painted a metallic green and her earlobes covered by ribbed shells of gold. You'll drive him deeper into himself." Nelson cuts him short. Her tongue has some trouble in her mouth and it's cute. "City reduces charge against football star.

"Harry. And then this morning the doctor comes around and tells me it was a Mickey Mouse operation and hardly worth bothering with. as if Harry's burden of exasperation with their only living child has passed to her. All the time. Harry Angstrom. the beatings. but whose lawyers kept talking her out of it. its defiant uprightness. With sheer love.

on his lap." "Well. "What's going to happen?" She sits in a chair near his bed. Her hair is what gets me. "I don't give a fuck where anybody sleeps. Breit's sore?looking mouth gets stern; his upper lip has sweat on it. It works out. you always have to be figuring at something." "I know.

" Harry says. the heart gets tired of lugging it all around. Letting her son enjoy her ignorance. "Toyota doesn't get many of those. PUBLIX. which conceals his roommate. his notched key scratching at the wiggly small slot. It is all so bright. its extra?yellowed look above the radiator.

National Cremation Society." And indeed to Harry." Janice finds this rude. had been their waitress." he says. lone hawks and buzzards sit. piped through his blistered?looking lips. vasodilator. you joke.

like oil drips from speeding automobiles. perhaps. We're early if anything. you can't feel it in the lee of the hotel here. Thelma. It works out. He shouldn't still be horsing around on the 'beach. then photooffset. But she was a girl and girls are less ornery than boys.

They think they know now exactly what kind of bomb blew up that Pan Am flight. They all greet Harry as if he's going to rescue them from death by boredom. Funny appetite. retired from being Springer Motors' Senior Sales Representative and moved from his old place on Eisenhower Avenue to a new condominium development on the far north side of the city. He doesn't know how to begin. Nelson may have his weaknesses but her sense of him is that he has never been crazy about sex like his father ? that his generation got enough of it early enough for the magic to wear off. must go through. Cunts like Chesapeake oysters. She rests her fingers above his ears and by the short hairs there pulls him softly toward her.

human curiosity. Frankly." since it began as a used?car lot owned and run by Fred Springer. her skin mixed of Negro and Indian or Oriental tints and stretched tight over her cheekbones and nosebone; her eyelids have been painted a metallic green and her earlobes covered by ribbed shells of gold. with the benefits and bonuses. this snug limestone cottage tucked in among the bigger Penn Park homes. these smart Jews. to maintain a real habit. with his heart.

reaching into his upper left arm. Breit. Schmidt hits a home run. he says. He switches off the set and goes looking for her. Being with you is such a relief. with the headlines calling him "Rabbit. "Over my dead body. realer than Thelma's.

`Go for it. Harry. The sudden motion gives him a burning pang behind his rib cage. He likes cruising these streets. "Ronnie buys them. Funny appetite." Her eyes shift over to her mother's face as she realizes she has said too much. along with the sun wrinkles. "Get this.