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And his family is niceThe father works for the railroad in Tulsa but he is an office man even if he has started in the yardsAnd they have their own house in the suburbs, a decent plot of ground behind itJim Brown is dependable, always improving his house a little bit, fixing the plumbing or planing the sill of a door that jams
Isn’t the kind of man who runs into debt
Ella and me try to hold to one of those budgets, he says deprecatinglyIf we find we’re gone a little over, we jus’ cut down on the liquor for the week(Half-apologetically) I kinda look on liquor as a luxury, especially now when you gotta break a law to get it, and you’re never sure when it’ll leave you blind
Keeps up with things tooThe Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s and back in the early twenties a charter subscriber to Reader’s DigestIt all comes in handy for small talk when you’re visiting, and the only dishonesty people have ever noticed him in is that he has a habit of talking about the articles without crediting the source
Do you know thirty million people smoked cigarettes in 1928? he’ll say
The Literary Digest keeps him informed on politicsI voted for Herbert Hoover in the last election, he admits pleasantly, even though I’ve been a Democrat as long as I can rememberBut I think I’ll vote Democrat in the nextThe way I look at it, one party’s in power for a while and then you give the other a turnI allow Jim to show me the way for those political thingsShe does not add the business about keeping up her home, but you can guessNice people, nice family, church on Sundays of courseBrown’s only violent opinion is on the New MoralityI don’t know, people aren’t Godfearing any moreWomen drinking in bars, doing God knows what else, it isn’t right, isn’t Christian at allBrown nods tolerantlyHe has a few reservations, but after all women somehow just are more religious, really religious, than men, he will say in a confidential talk
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Old James spoke up then
“Maureen has a pointI well remember my own mother’s sharp
tongue
He rambled fondly through a series of memories of hisyouth
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apple
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Scarlett
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going,” Jamie laughed
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two,” Daniel explained to Scarlett”They’re the newest O’Haras to
come to Savannah It didn’t matter at all that Matt and Katie
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There was a beep, and then the sixth message
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off, which made him sound more like himself
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Ay! Edgar, Jack and I are going over to Abbot-
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or anything, but I want to be with you when you
look in that basket and when you see what got left
in your studio upstairsI don’t like to be
mysterious, but Wireman ain’t putting this shit on
a message-tape anybody might listen toAnd
there’s one more thingOne of her lawyers called
Left a message on the machine – Jack and I were
still up in the fucking atticHe says I’m her
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I punched 0 for the hotel operatorAfter a short
wait, she gave me the number of the Abbot-Wexler
Funeral ParlorA robot answered,
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but habit wasn’tBig Pink did not belong to me,
and I had been taught since earliest childhood to
take especial care of what belonged to othersI
was pretty sure I had locked the houseSo if
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forced?
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spoke in the grating voice of the shells under the
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shudderThey had been only imagination, surely,
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There was Mary Telfair with a group of ladies, all of them with green
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for pity’s sake? Surely her grandfather wasn’t here; please, God,
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Jerome was with a black woman wearing a green sashFancy that,
old
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tooA street vendor was handing out lemonade and coconut candy
cakes
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starvationTake tiffany wholesale that, Grandfather! she thought, delighted by her
own
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Miss Telfair was nibbling on something that she was holding between
her
kid-gloved thumb and forefinger”I still say the cowboy in the green
hat was the best,” fake hermes Mary Kate insisted
“He did all those fancy things with the rope, and he was so
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“You just say that because he smiled at us,” Helen said scornfully
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dreams
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“Those weren’t leprechauns, silly
There aren’t any prada tote bag leprechauns in America
“They were dancing around a big bag of goldNobody would have a
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“You’re such a child, HelenThey were boys in costumes is all
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paused to think, I wouldn’t have been able to
rememberHe also bought a painting, and arranged
for shipmentHe wanted one of those spooky Girl
and Ship ones, but they were spoken forHe
settled for a conch-shell floating on the water
Which could be troubleAll the surreal ones could
be trouble
“Bozie bought two of the sketches, and Kamen
bought oneKathi Green wanted one, but said she
couldn’t afford it”I thought her
husband was sort of a dork
I would have given her one if she’d asked, I
thought
Wireman spoke up again”Listen to me now, Pam
You’ve got work to do A little fog still in her voice, but
mostly sharp
“You need to call Bozeman and Kamen
854
“Tell them to burn those sketches
A slight pause, then: “Burn the sketches, okay,
got it
“As soon as we’re off the phone,” I put in
A touch of annoyance: “I said I got that, Eddie
“Tell them I’ll reimburse them their purchase
price times two, or give them different sketches,
whichever they want, but that those sketches
aren’t safeHave you got
that?”
“Yep, I’ll do it right now And she finally asked
a question”Eddie, did that Hello
picture kill Tom?”
“Yes
I gave her the phone numb

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driven me out in the first placeOnly hunger was
too mild a word for what I was feelingI was
ravenous, and the leftover lasagna in the fridge
wouldn’t doThere was meat in it, but not enough
I lurched into the house on my crutch, head
swimming from the Oxycontin, got a frypan from the
drawer under the stove, and slung it onto one of
the burnersI turned the dial to HIGH, barely
hearing the flump of igniting gasI was too busy
tearing the plastic wrap from a package of ground
sirloinI threw it in the frypan and mashed it
flat with the palm of my hand before scrabbling a
spatula out of the drawer beside the stove
Coming back into the house, shucking my clothes
and climbing into the shower, I’d been able to
mistake the flutters in my stomach for nausea – it
seemed like a reasonable explanationBy the time
I was rinsing away the soap, though, the flutters
had settled into a steady low rumble like the idle
of a powerful motorThe drugs had damped it down
a little bit, but now it was back, worse than ever
If I’d ever been this hungry in my life, I
couldn’t remember when
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I flipped the grotesquely large meat-patty and
tried to count to thirtyI figured a thirty-count
on high heat would be at least a nod in the
direction of what people mean when they say
“cooking meat If I’d thought to flip on the fan
and vent the aroma, I might have made itAs it
was, I didn’t even get to twentyAt seventeen I
snatched a paper plate, flipped the hamburger onto
it, and wolfed the half-raw ground beef while I
leaned against the cabinetAbout halfway through
I saw the red juice seeping out of the red meat
and got a momentary but brilliant picture of
Gandalf looking up at me while blood and shit
oozed from the wrecked remains of his hindquarters,
matting the fur on his broken rear legsMy
stomach didn’t so much as quiver, just cried
impatiently for more food
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That night I dreamed I was in the bedroom I had
shared for so many years with PamShe was asleep
beside me and couldn’t hear the croaking voice
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coming from somewhere below in the darkened house:
“Newly wed, nearly dead, newly wed, nearly dead
It sounded like some mechanical device stuck in a
grooveI shook my wife but she just turned overDreams mostly tell the truth,
don’t they?
I got up and went downstairs, holding the banister
to compensate for my bad legAnd there was
something odd about how I was holding that
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Wilson was getting restlessHe had been sitting in one place for several hours now, and his mood of contentment was beginning to lapseHis drinking sessions always followed a similar pattern: for the first few hours he would feel happy and benevolent, and the more he drank the more superior he felt to anyone who was not drinkingBut after a time he would feel a need for some external excitement and he would become bored and a trifle soberHe would fidget, become a little agitated, and then abruptly he would leave the bar or the house where he was drinking, and wander away to accept whatever adventures might occurMany times he would wake up the next day in the bed of a strange woman, or in the gutter, or on the sofa in the parlor of his small frame houseAnd rarely would he remember what had happened to him
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