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    Simon y-t for  lean and aggressive. tle finger to be found in tire Ss catalog, s pages of alluring metal moldings and fire-rated expansion joints.  asbestos and asbestos-containing products out of every job imes at considerable cost. er c breakfast and say, quot; times?quot; Sara ty good stab at many of t. ar, courtesy of a clerk-typist in  ing citations for routinely rotating personnel  Corps level. t ations, including, one year, a box of Godiva ces. ings, maintaining a grave and tful countenance and letting all t.  tra élan derived from ras. Several of to be fifty-nine or sixty. quot;Gro;  most accorded  t of ree, a palm, scically a skinny curving vertical  of furor at top. it pens and a pad of tracing paper cy minutes, y and s over for forty days, cursing y. quot; about talk?quot; A design prof old tudents t t angles in nature, and Simon ion of talk. o do it again, ty years later, ion of tele?perioration of sensibility, pero quietude a parent unmarked by strife and contes?tation. Pipe bombs did not bot bloer, on t Palme once, at a conference on tantin Doxiodes in Stock o go ed to succeed in good socialist fasimistic. quot;tic,quot; tect ed  from tion. Carol alked for ;Socialism, finally, doesnt ; Ryszard ;You get, you knooo many bad guys at top.quot; Ryszards faty in t, a Communist  time t anyone o Simon, y of t, t socialism didnt ;You get, at t, not t but t-.quot; Simon took Ryszard to t, gave  a tizio lamp, regretted t   door, on Pine Street. Carol, y-five and ty-six, -ass, an admirable smart-ass. quot;I love you but its only temporary,quot; so people, quot; marriage.quot; Simon could lift refrigerators ot lift.  crus ting a refrigerator do of rigairs for a neigly to cy-t,  so mucy-this.

    quot;; Veron?ica says, quot;, een and four?teen.  can I say? Sadistic son-of-a-bitc  drink. ore dooy o be a doctor. My mot rid of ually. Not soon enoug;

    Simon till ac?tive at seventy-five, playing t and raising cc t under a buttock, on t ter. Blond ervieo igional impulse, s as tall as he is.

    quot;ell, its a bitc; o him.

    quot;. ty ex?pensive suits, maybe a dozen suits.  of srees in teen, a Mamiyaflex, a to take pictures of lizards, lizard-on-branc camera --quot;

    quot;And your mot;

    quot;So tell truter s rid of ill back tary sc a boyfriend, teacterleys Lover.quot;

    She pauses.

    quot;Guess ; she says.

    quot;?quot;

    quot;Youre not a fat surprise you?quot;

    quot;No.quot;

    quot;Youre more like a guy  in too long.quot;

    Does translate into experienced, tried-and-true, empered? Or pulpy, rips?  an ear.

    quot;I mean  ain cer.quot;

    Rust never sleeps, hinks.

    quot;ell,quot; ;sake to sc;

    quot; c;

    quot;Rig;

    quot;Are you going to ;

    quot;Probably not.quot;

    tIM, tler, is a sad Saab of a man about ty. v ses occasionally. les quot;t; quot;tumbling tumble; and quot;My Blue ; tter taken note-for-note from tin. ling is tougouged flourisim says t t famous ime  Lopez and  and s. t;illiam tell Overturequot; Lo im says.

    After dinner (roasted squab ato skins) tim talks additionally about cting room. Fred Lo;Indian Love Callquot; sold more tim tells tling, nota?bly ecronics in California.

    quot;I ain Vieelevision, ilus macer, sguns, lots of sguns, o cables and c, some very fine art, tes, t trees,  California o go around to tastings, got to kno of ty suits, t especially for me --quot;

    quot;Any of true?quot; Veronica whispers.

    quot;; Simon whispers.

    tim is drinking Black Russians. Simon  to obtain Kahlua and brandy.

    quot; ; tim says, quot; application is clearly for peo?ple ions or one toys, vending mac applications for banking and of course telecommunications to t  would ;

    Dore looks at Simon. Simon inclines o t, meaning Could be.

    quot;Digital is unbelievable,quot; tim says. quot;I can take an ordinary utterance and give it a nasty sneering tone, just by bending some numbers. I can --quot;

    Veronica says, quot;So ;

    quot;Car im says, quot;over on tent most people dont kno todays cars, especially tually embraces t. I mean if you ed t to ado t come up ter. . . tiny pits uniformly distrib?uted over t act like traps for t and suck it up. It becomes like plaque on teet de?vise a solvent t  elling you, ts. It is in being. But because tifrice outfits dont  to lose a very, very lucrative market, you and I get zip. o go in tant scrape aool for an er Fuller?  Fuller o say about copper e. Our per capita investment in copper, for every man, woman and c;

    Simons getting tired. quot;But of course you can look at it in anot; he says.

    quot;Look at ;

    quot;t. t is t consumer in try, rigs going to be true by and large of all governments everyract ied to a proportionate amount ion of t, if you couldnt get government  --quot;

    quot;t cost-plus you,quot; says tim.

    quot;No more cost-plus,quot; Simon says. quot;eve done a.quot;

    quot;t bury it somew;

    quot;More auditors.quot;

    quot;Banks  give you your capitalization.quot;

    quot;Nationalize em.quot;

    quot;You  an across-tandardization of profit?  your incentive?quot;

    quot;Say tiers of incentive tied to productivity. So tion but not flat-out rape, if you kno;

    tim sigrips off . quot;I once raigood a tent  in tarted  o make tetraoot t iers be?quot;

    quot;Say te is six, one, times te. to get eigo do a;

    quot;;

    quot;Be t-plus. tiplier ;

    quot;Underneat, God kno;

    quot;Our inspectors ake sections.quot;

    tim says, quot;ts terribly rational, Simon. t.quot;

    quot;Not talking about progress. talking about move?ment. ere not necessarily married to t situ?ation.quot;

    tim looks at three women.

    quot;too bad. Engineering is key. e  even floated t of smoking. Every day, fifteen to ty Americans are injured by trays.quot;

    SIMON enjoyed life as a g, one of t city. So many units ruso and fro t nobody noticed anytime to remark on strangers in ts anding ion, but Simon did not knoc comfortably anonymous. For amusement,  to a neigory and Silverado, t   interested; Anne didnt like esterns. quot; like esterns?quot; Simon asked ruly amazed, and s o t-do a rope and t to tinct pieces and t sern since. Simon told  not all esterns  kind of t sime, and consulted heir plans.

    t plan o return to Denver, and nobody liked it. quot;Be damned if I ; Veronica o go to Paris and affiliate ture -Laurent or Karl Lagerfeld. Al?t stuff alked kno Memp least to join training in a number of sopicated elec?tronic and computer skills. th plan was Burger King.

    quot;A lot of Americans  Burger King. On a con?tingency basis.quot;

    quot;Americans of every creed and stripe.quot;

    quot;Id rato ;

    quot;transferring one-and-a- Fort Lupton Community?quot;

    quot;Yea;

    quot;I  to e music.quot;

    quot; kind of music?quot;

    quot;Serious music. Big music. Entire string sections bending to t;

    quot;You could study t.quot;

    quot;I could. ;

    quot;I to play somet in.quot;

    quot;tambourine? Nas a joke I knoambourine is no good.quot;

    quot;Do you tarted too late?quot;

    quot;Its never too late. In principle.quot;

    quot;Cellers.quot;

    quot;I dont  to be a bank teller.quot;

    quot;ell its a start.quot;

    quot;to;

    quot;I dont  to t  to t.quot;

    quot;e could go out and marry some more people.quot;

    quot;t t;

    quot;Yea does sound a little retrograde.quot;

    Anne is in a retrospective mood.

    quot;I ; s;I didnt ional, t;

    quot;Cant ; Simon says.

    quot;It ing. tuff is very exciting ing. I ed to be a doctor.quot;

    quot;Everybody s to be a doctor. Veronicas old man ter ed to be a doctor.quot;

    quot;I kno; s;ence is justified.quot;

    Simon looks at  on t;You could still do t,quot; ;Medical sc;

    quot;Do you  to get married again?quot;

    quot; t about it.quot;

    quot;Probably somebodyd marry you.quot;

    quot;Like w;

    quot;Some dumb y ;

    quot;t ty dumb. You need a young sol?dier.quot;

    quot;You telling me ;

    quot;trying to.quot;

    quot;I feel affectionate to;

    quot;I feel t a good idea.quot;

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