suppose they'll talk me into it eventually. Maybe twice a month they go to a movie at a cineplex in a giant mall over on Palmetto Palm Boulevard two miles away.

When Nelson finally comes out in his expensive smoky?blue pajamas he is surprised and annoyed to find her here
When Nelson finally comes out in his expensive smoky?blue pajamas he is surprised and annoyed to find her here. past the king?size bed they bought down here. Judge. Why should people pay seventeen grand for a GTS when in the same range you can get a Mustang or Beretta GT or Mazda MX?6?" "A Celica doesn't cost seventeen grand. 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. ` Julius?" "That's right. demoralized like. Being with you is such a relief. there is.

though there is no other person in the dream. shrimps and scallops. I bet she flunked home ec. which also hold a few of Ma Springer's knickknacks. heavy and hot against her. a winged aluminum machine aglide and enlarging above the sulky flat scrubland and horizon thready with palms. the NFC playoff game between the Eagles and the Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago. I think Nelson is into cocaine. She is already in one of her nighties.

gappy quality that has nevertheless given him room to breathe. and succumb to the great heaviness of being. but there's something else too. what is so hard to picture in flat Florida. even the head of the narc squad. the girl for this month dressed up as a bare?assed Easter bunny. the padded men hulking out of nothingness and then fading back again. "He was in Nelson's office ten minutes ago. She is very busy on the outside; the classes she has to take to be a real?estate salesman have begun to meet.

They're just like us only more so. Ollie down in New Orleans she heard. But he can't tell Thelma that. Breit smiles and his voice grows confidential. when the Sunfish tipped over." "Honey. "The worst of it is. but there's something else too." "Riding along.

twenty years ago. "Harry." "Including me. Everything is more intense. that the wall?to?wall carpet under his feet is soaked with water. or he might not have made such a good thing out of his life for us all to enjoy. What did his old basketball coach." He looks. back in Mill Valley.

I mean. on the end there. or when he can't hear her knocking around in the kitchen or upstairs above his head." Lyle says. Nevertheless. Don't go." she decides to begin. I used to have pretty hands. It puts the Phils ahead five to zero.

Coke's the cleanest of them all. golf or tennis or a beauty?parlor appointment or a bus trip to the Everglades." "That's nice." "Not really. nobody said it wasn't. are you going to do it? Call in another accountant. It works out. beat. is a combination restaurant and function room.

the usual. "And what did Lyle say then?" "He said we shall see. as if he's prematurely senile. But Benny seems to know all he wants to. in his arms. suppressing it. At least they went to Florida together. He stares at Harry with those eroded?around eyes. How many people in the world now.

"You just tell him Julius called." she says. and behind toward the river and Brewer. varnished little knickknack stands and taborets. bars whose front windows were cracked from the vibration of the trains going past. too. She hesitates. "How's she doing really?" Benny moves an inch even closer and confides. In their condo building in fact he and Janice are pets of a sort.

you've nothing to be frightened of. let's face it. Angstrom left for lunch around one o'clock and said he might not be back this afternoon. Do you know." "Don't push the options at people ? you get a name in the county for loading. Shoo?fly pie and apple pan dowdy. further along Central. The magnolias and quince are in bloom. You park at a lot only a few steps away from the door of sliding brown glass: the whole state babies you.

looks like another customer out there. her ringed hand gesturing like a Balinese dancer's. Harry. the number of trim youngish professionals in lightweight suits and tight linen skirts has ballooned; they work in the banks and insurance companies and state and federal agencies and there is no end of them somehow. Breit smiles and his voice grows confidential. His many burdens have been lifted away in this light?drenched hospital. "and they always take twenty dollars off of him. "I suppose they'll talk me into it eventually. Maybe twice a month they go to a movie at a cineplex in a giant mall over on Palmetto Palm Boulevard two miles away.