¡¶Paradise¡· Back Cover: SIMON IS IN hE? A fifty-tect ;tragic sense of brick,quot; Simon takes a years sabbatical from o Nement s is spacious and empty, so tle do a Lexington Avenue bar, it seems perfectly natural to invite to move in. tuation, t out, quot;ructure of a male fantasy.quot; Simons s prove to be surprisingly perceptive and intelligent, but ttle lost, struggling to find t difficult city. Simon, by turns doting and inattentive, tempted and ely, alled career, able day whe women will leave him. In table style t erized Donald Bartimistic, and provocative tale of lives mesic world. quot;A ation, comic and melanc; -- Newsweek quot;Paradise is Bart, mello and most entertaining book. ed ed ties, t; -- People 1 AFtER tensity. o clean trines and pile up dirty-il it alloic socks, and time finding a pair t matco be named Al, embraced edly and tried repeat?edly to spit in ro bus filled o t of , sold c on t o cy-dollar bill and ed t suff nine fives into little envelopes printed -of-register scenes from t Presbyterian contributions over t nine Sundays, rue culprit. Simon tles of asteless Marlboro Lig to do next. all tra beds in one room, to of tacked on top of one anotest for a princess. a ne, a gold-flecked acuba, and a pot for it at Conrans, a glazed off- seven ainers of Dannon Straages of reduction. to t over t knoo do , t out too. ed four tocks into to er ire?ment years. got no ansill, rimmed oenails, trous left and tening rigoes knocked back into civility. ed ;My youre looking fresty t; t; Dore says, quot;ty.quot; quot;I put t,quot; Simon says, quot;I t Id get some plants maybe tomorro in tc; quot;Booze I ; Dore says dropping ;Boy is ty. I dont mean t as a criticism.quot; quot;t t it. ? I ; quot;Beer for me,quot; Veronica says, quot;w; quot;In tce ; quot;Vodka for me,quot; Dore says, quot;and vodka for my s a joke, Anne s are a good idea. Big plants. Rocks , just rocks. Anne oo. Really t a little close in terms of funds --quot; quot;Bloody ass ; Veronica says. quot;Believing old us.quot; quot;So you made a miscalculation,quot; Simon says. quot;But t you tely necessary? t; S in diameter, in a canvas case. quot;My trampoline. I bounce on it. ts ; quot;Any against t some ribs I can broil you guys eat ribs?quot; quot;God t tastes good,quot; s;I my s end, our s ends, t jerk at t; quot;e ; Anne says. quot;No point in flagellating ourselves,quot; says Dore. quot;I drink to Simon. did you tly. o t; quot;I unned. Conservatively speaking.quot; In ing rons, t finisender told gowns. quot;t is, o Africa. Before ; Dore says. quot;ts o Africa. to allevi?ate elevision.quot; quot;Probably you can sell ter ; Anne says. quot;Its got ; Veronica says, looking at e-painted ceilings. quot;You could ; 2 Q: Youre all? A: Six foot and a bit. Q: Not much hair. A: Lucky to Ive got. Q: Youre not fat. Except for t itself. Some fe lo of falling upon a issue manifested at tcoenails. A: I dont see his. Q: ? A: Practice. Q: Its not bad. I dont ations. A: It would drive me crazy. Q: Ever been subject to epilepsy? A: I opped. I t it mal. Q: Scarlet fever? A: No. Q: A severe approximately eleven-ty. A: Sometimes a little earlier. Q: do you t the Knicks? A: Kings knee me worried. Q: Are the women gone? A: Been gone for a week. Q: ell I can give you some Extra-Strengtylenol. ts supposed to be good. You acquired ts not the word, in a bar. A: At five oclock in ternoon. te beautiful. t, afternoon light -- Q: this bar was where? A: In a el on Lexington. I dont remember tel. Q: kind of a el? as it seedy, or -- A: Seemed to me quite okay. Not a luxury el by any means, more of an ordinary tourist place. Q: You o the bar. A: off treet. And tall, statuesque even. In a croting at tables and sitting at tting e lingerie. Modeling it. And every?one was being very calm, very cool. Q: You too? A: I sat at tared. Discreetly. Q: Did you order a drink? A: Of course I ordered a drink. I said to tender, s this? he said, Fashion show. Every Fri?day. Q: theyd finished when you came in. A: t tting omers. Q: Bikini pants burning at eye level. A: ere you there? Q: Im imagining. A: e merry eddys and . It e stunning. I couldnt believe it. them were blond, one darkhaired. Q: t? A: One of t do to me. ty seat. Q: You offered to buy her a drink. A: Sed. Sed a Rob Roy. Q: in the name of God is a Rob Roy? A: Some kind of they drink in Denver. Q: they were from Denver? A: t Lupton, which is nearby. Q: te lacy B¨¹stener encompassing ts nudging your arm. A: Se circumspect. Asked me ical. Q: his? A: Dore. Q: tory. A: It came out piecemeal. About to stay and no money. Q: So you said w? A: I said I of room but t the place was kind of bare. Q: And she said? A: S didnt matter. Q: And you said? A: I said I didnt knoo do for beds. 3 quot;So tell me about Fort Lupton,quot; Simon says to Dore. quot;Its beteville. Basically a ; s;But pretty wide. e even ; quot;Did you.quot; quot;e of try.quot; quot;?quot; quot;Some pioneer coter of fact I o one of t; quot;; quot;In t four more years before probation.quot; quot;Im sorry. quot;Im not. Guy cut me in time ; Simon doesnt understand ; ; quot;, from various jobs. Usually fired t ting getting fired. I tered let any?body kno; quot;All of you been married?quot; quot;Not Anne. S guy.quot; quot;Your guy?quot; quot;ell . t; Veronica is fiddling button. tting room. quot; sexual experience, Simon?quot; . quot;I ten. teaco make little c of cardboard, ook it in to . It in one t er tossed mine out and used ; quot;t sexual experience?quot; quot; to go?quot; quot; Sara; quot;Saraeen. tle so sing Im proud, proud, proud to be a cos sometreet.quot; quot;Do you miss ; quot;Of course.quot; quot; does your ?quot; quot;More fun.quot; quot;s tter ?quot; quot;Not a t; quot; does s; quot;Sy mayor, at t.quot; quot;You straig; quot;orically, straig; quot;Me too. Notraig; quot;Rig; quot;Great t out treets you some of it?quot; quot;Only in principle.quot; quot;You like young t, go after it. Ono t. You ever live and love in a garage apart?ment?quot; quot;Never ; quot;ts a trees.quot; quot;Must be nice.quot; quot;Depends upon pin. Six inceel.quot; quot;to discourage creeps and ; quot;You got it.quot; quot;uck anybody ?quot; quot;Not in Neate. Ive been reading in t t; quot;tting closer.quot; quot;You to ty like t; quot;Its a great city. e ; quot;t; quot; mayor. it doly rig be better. .quot; ts the smoke alarm. quot; t?quot; quot;t; quot;s it trying to say? t; quot;telling us t tterys ; quot;ell disconnect it for Cs sake.quot; anding on a cic be? feels like paper -- quot;Youve got a good ass Simon.quot; times is spread all over tchen. quot;t; Simon says. quot;Deat Calcuttas Streets, But teeming City t; quot;Unbeatable,quot; says Anne. Shes making a salad. quot;Alt; quot;?quot; quot;Slain U.S. Major .quot; quot;A one-exploit man.quot; quot;Rat; quot;t ex-Mex last nig; quot;Better tex-Mex at all.quot; quot;true.quot; quot;s t ting in t; quot;ts Venetian marigold. tastes like mint.quot; quot;O; quot;It does, it does.quot; Srokes. quot;Anyone .quot; quot;You mean t; quot;In any form. Land, sea, or in t; quot;ell I take you. You ; quot;to be good. I guarantee it. Let me ; quot;; quot;Extra-virgin. Just like me.quot; 4 Six oclock in tside. A woman laughing. s out of bed and o the garden below. In t garden, separated from tretc on tones, making love. top of t bunc see the color of her hair. o tor. Reactle of or door. o a tumbler, tastes it, makes a face, and o ttes. Be;; Six oclock? And tones cant be able. Ardent lovers must these lovers be. ted from ty hem. Simon, early in tuffs spackle into tle over it. Not bad for government work, hinks. t tle tufts of insulation floating at its edges. o do not t be old not to use eit been cleaned for years. can and h rare cheeses. On to to get t room. Did you sleep side, on treet, some?ones screaming. Peering from t ing a cop stick and fists. t of build. t;; -- a prodigious s, t t kills. tonisake off in t directions. Simon runs out tairs. trying to pull o by t of t time of o teps, sits her down. quot;Mot; s;Goddamn mot; quot;Sit still,quot; ;Ill call an ambulance.quot; quot;Dont need no ambulance. ick?quot; Simon retrieves it for to her head. quot;; to uffs t on s down again. quot;Mot; quot;You me to call t?quot; quot;No. Ill be fine. Just gimme a minute.quot; Sty, maybe ty-eigy-nine. quot;t; s;Perps lookin for someto make ools. t as young as t my damn stick a; quot;You me to o tal?quot; quot;Im gonna a minute.quot; S and calls in, telling t about quot;to do a break-in,quot; and tion. quot;t; so Simon. quot;Youre a good citi?zen. Got a good yell on you.quot; Sands and, stagger?ing sligreet. Surns and calls again, quot;t; Simon goes back inside and pours anot Calcuttas streets, but teeming city th life. 5 Q: You got the beds. A: I to tore and bougra fifty oclock. ruck, t on tton. e stripped off tic and set ttle room in t. Q: here were you? A: I he middle. I already had a bed. Q: Youd sublet this place. A: For a year. t me tials, diso sort of ture. Q: Did t? A: t saying, ter all to Africa. to fight hunger. Q: Did t ? A: t. ty. t to Bloomingdales and t. t to ters. t to Astis and banged on ter glasses o S Basil and on Marsalis. I nigenor. t to t and bougcards in t s to Lincoln Center and saival and all t. t excited by trand and came back to tomlin or some?body. t alogetimes Veronica and Dore , sometimes Anne by imes t togeto Balduccis and came ic foods. togetimes. I remember a partic?ularly good Cream of Four Onion soup. t a lot of time just though in limbo. Q: Limbo. A: tate, it ing on t muc kno frustration. Still, I hen she made a pie, a blueberry pie -- Q: Did to Fizz? A: I believe t te often. Q: on there? A: It rack, a erosexual meat rack. From old me. Q: So there. . . A: t playing, just exercising. . . Q: make you feel? A: I didnt like it. Q: Sometimes I think I should have been a shrink. A: you? Q: Its not medicine. A: I imagine talking to eacher. . . Q: did to eacher? A: I dont knoful. Direct. Q: My leaving t mucer re, as a soters seed over a field. S so mucrike a matc leaving tc matc surface. If so t so to tention and s understand alking about. Little balls of Kleenex every would end? A: Good Lord no. Maybe it . took up a lot of space, made a lot of clatter. t hink. Q: All in all, t ressful side. A: e talked a lot. I t as a series of conver?sations. A series of ordinary conversations. Simple as pie. them. Q: Do you hem? A: Postcards. Q: t before you like lotus blossoms. . . A: Not exactly like lotus blossoms. Q: Open, blooming. . . A: More like antinging anthills. Q: You fall face doo an anthill. A: Somet. Q: ts are plunging tooto your scro?tum, as it oottle particles of fleso toothpicks. A: Very muc. how did you know? Q: Im not inexperienced. A: By andard? Q: Generally accepted standards. 6 SUNDAY morning. Simon listening to one of his radios. quot;Jesus is a rock in a ; says th a deep sonorous voice. quot;I e a little song t says, dont till ttle is over, you can s no in torious. t dont mean you aint gonna cry. t dont mean you aint gonna feel pain. But in t your face to s all rigs all rigs allllllrige peace. inuously, do we love ; Simon t a day many years before o t;Goodbye, you dirty rat,quot; ted c;Goodbye, you dirty rat,quot; the baby said. ood in ts, a green paper s, paper bags on and a green paper cap on o be a perfect clown. ted rying to keep out of tes; a monitor ed fetal distress and tor, a man kno doing Caesareans, o make. tors name rument looked to Simon, ools, capable of stering tant. After all t, ts t they can do? Carol Simon and said, quot;Gross, isnt it?quot; ting nurses exchanged pained looks. quot;No no,quot; ;doing fine, keep going.quot; Zernikie een blocks in a blizzard to get to tal after discovering t start. ook eadily. t o tor rotated t and placed it on tomacor cut and tied off t;; s;; 7 Pransforming an old armory in a rundoo a sc ordered tractor to rip out and replace six t of expensive case?ment on t alloo bid t because t make a performance bond. Or, old could of Louis Katen into t of bending doo c for oil traces after ime. tied neatly to tailpipe. t truck draped in remely ; a sergeant told er truck. Simon urned to one of ners and given ical, in fourteen years. In reality, it t t of listening to e. ick a 9D battery in Simons ear and ernately, a garbage truck. imes go togeto t te to ced engine side tore ing, and inside four or five tall -ss o put in tti sauce. quot;Im up to ; Sy Italian sausage. ticed, appeared strong and trust. tion, er Veronica, or Dore, ;Dont be jealous, Simon.quot; ter a pause, quot;ere not ; Did s too young or rat? in many exciting fires . Bridges s be painted blue, Simon t, te, , er still, eel ty, knoudent ted a project to redo Rockefeller Center in pickled pine. ead of a tie, most sportif. o be on tele?vision for five elevision people, young men anding around ing for o get dressed and proceed to tudio. t t racted to do. tes in anotting dressed, jacket and Simon struggled against it as ted t time imes, eacime ion -- television people became un?friendly and began making supercilious remarks. ill salvage tuation if to tes rested in a manila folder. Yes, e, but tes e to be sure but enougo alloriped jacket, wood, wrong -- quot;SIMON, youre famous!quot; Veronica says. Secture. quot;You sa; quot;Looks beautiful. Big building.quot; quot;Four million somet; quot;Its got a very fancy outside.quot; quot;Some of ts fiberglass. e o take molds to reproduce a lot of tals, t stuff on top of t drives you crazy because youve got to add a fire-retardant to t and t can crying to matc?ing building.quot; quot;Do arcects make a lot of money?quot; quot;You can go broke,quot; ;You can do very ime you put into a job, tners kept me solvent.quot; quot;s it feel like to be famous?quot; quot;Feels very muc being famous.quot; quot;Are you going to fall in love ; Shes serious. quot;?quot; quot;It could all come to not; she says. tting at tc of ts getting hinks. quot;Youre y-t; quot;Yes.quot; quot;ts pretty old.quot; quot;And life is s.quot; quot;; Veronica says, quot;ted to tnam. tures, every year, of test bunc; quot;Yes. More or less.quot; quot;I so bad, so great. e used to screo ; quot;Every damn morning?quot; quot;ell not every morning Simon dont be so literal-minded.quot; quot;In t t; Simon says. quot;I kne somet before.quot; quot;Like ; quot;A fig; quot;You couldnt remember?quot; quot;I in t; quot;Are you a good cook?quot; quot;Getting ten years.quot; quot;Look! In t; A silver blimp, tically al. quot; married,quot; s;I married to get a priest to do t and explained tuation. I said I a Cat says, ell, . told ill married to anoto before I met t says, ell, . So I just t Id tell I a vagina, t I just of marble insert o see if . quot; 8 SIMON is amazed by . not a couple of nes. ecture and critiques emple University, tle by request over a formidable counter, no broacks. t o almost notners it but ed eel building s of glass block as its only de?sign flourisacked eig uary -- t-giving element, and resisted too. It ed itself again in to be said for being fifty-turning of tional day a great boon. understand people ures. akes an interest in tuary pages of tions, tidy packages, So-and-so gets tra-la-la got seven. o be and is vomiting ratoo mucaxes for last year and from tional $41.09. t t forty-one bucks and nine cents. Youd ty-five ts about it. Dore is brusque upon ao t table (able, a slab of butcop of some cabinets ools around it) pale aken gusts of enter musrudeau. t ers tly in tices a strange avoid, cant prageous staring. My senses are being systematically d¨¦r¨¦gled, ively tall, Anne not so tall (but tall), Veronica again term. Breasts o side under t-ss t Simon doesnt understand a tent sense does s ? t. Simon ually met Pierre tru?deau (at a ty-planning conference in Ot?ta a crayons s. tempts generalizations. Dore is crusty, Veron?ica is volatile, Anne is a ions are banal but comforting, like oto over many years, arcecture is frozen music and art is a source of life. In t and?ing over his bed. quot;?quot; quot;Its me. Dore.quot; che bedside lamp. quot;s up?quot; quot;Do you ; quot;You mean cas; quot;I need a couple of ; quot;Rig; Se lace peignoir h long filigree sleeves. quot;Rig; quot;Let me look.quot; Simon gets out of bed and opens a book, On Adams akes out a stack of bills and counts out ties. quot;Its my bad brot; Dore says. quot;airs. s. t; Sarts to leave, then pauses. quot;s your ; quot;s my ; quot;You dont o tell me.quot; quot;Carol.quot; quot;Pretty name.quot; tedly: quot;See ; quot;See ; quot;See ; A: In t to do tention. . Suddenly tor stopped to sing a passage for my fa?t my fatly botcened attentively, smiling at tor. Q: Does your fatuality? A: Not a note. Q: Did tor resemble anyone you know? A: No. Q: did you do, after he evenings or on weekends, in Philadelphia? A: Just ordinary things. Q: No special interests? A: I erested in bo ty, , its really a very effective -- Q: And w else? A: ell, adultery. I s most of my free time. In adultery. Q: You mean regular adultery. A: Yes. Sleeping o someone else. Q: these were women. A: Invariably. Q: And so ts he evenings or on weekends. . . A: I range experience. today is Saturday, rigter I go to, ment. I needed a . So s ten, ten-ty, eleven, eleven-ty, ty -- on a Satur?day. Do you t know? Q: Its possible. A: if sabs me in the scissors? Q: Unlikely, I hink. A: Stabs me in the scissors in an excess of rage? Q: Your guilt. I recognize it. Clearly, guilt. A: Nonsense. t man guards man avoids anomalous circumstances. Q: You regard yourself as prudent. A: I regard myself as asleep. I go along, to me, turbances, one copes, t mean literally golden but golden in my esteem -- Q: Let me play track s by Eche Bunnymen -- A: Ill pass. Q: I also et offensive er Cronkite. . . quot; potent more ty-t of time.quot; quot;Maybe we could feed ; quot;t vitamin E is good for t.quot; quot;ts ; quot; if poisons ; quot;I dont too mucicular vitamin. takes needs and rejects t I read about it.quot; quot;Its because ; quot;I dont t ty-till y-t; quot;Per long intervals after amin E and nouris; quot;Maybe ing pograp; quot;Of ; quot;Potentially arousing scenes.quot; quot;You mean tograp; quot;ell I dont know ; quot;Maybe ially arousing scenes t are not pograp; quot;You mean like real life.quot; quot;ts ; quot;Consisting of ; quot;I dont kno; quot; ; quot;ts your opinion.quot; quot;I te it, spends ; quot;I just tten ourselves into a funda?mentally false position blame tard its just more to do.quot; quot;I sa believe it.quot; quot;t o. ts.quot; quot;e dont to stress y or ; quot;; quot; t; quot;I just t means of loose ends and its nat?ural, I to pluck at it.quot; quot;I use Lubriderm on imes, t ; quot;Ive noticed youve been buying a lot of Lubri?derm.quot; quot;I s ting so up about?quot; quot;I expression since I ; quot;ell ure ; quot;; quot;ts an evil t, o ; quot;Beats me I take it if ; quot;Sure you ; quot;an a nickel.quot; quot;Not a perfect deal e ; quot;ell Ill tell you Ive never many orgasms o give t; quot;ell if you simple frottage.quot; quot;e w ; quot;As ; quot;; quot;ere in some sort of ing room. aiting.quot; quot;ually?quot; quot;y-t; ONCE side tter tained rousers. able and tters blouse on table, a bottle of De;t; tter said, and t;; breasts, Simon t. into tc searc to in. Rob removed o t, Carol gave tter t;Do you ty?quot; Carol asked, re-doing the covers. quot;Yes,quot; Simon said. quot;Did you say anyto ; quot;I didnt t ; quot;Did tle?quot; quot;No, took it.quot; quot;I tter.quot; quot;O; quot; is seen?quot; quot;Fully fifteen.quot; quot;A ripe fifteen.quot; quot;I sa; So tc;I guess ts Sara; quot;O; quot;You to jump tter.quot; quot;; quot;I kno; quot;I dont t to anybody. I kno; quot;Youre too uff even to try. to kno; quot;t total. As in, I totaled t; quot;You t you dont ; quot;ts not so. Any to screter.quot; quot;You ; quot;Maybe in a state of nature. P a state of nature.quot; quot;Youre dumb. Youre just dumb, Simon.quot; quot;I didnt ter.quot; quot;S; quot;oday tell me ion of o lose money in ttle busi?ness. A client. tle aristocracy and tle as a s knoing ; quot;Youre c.quot; quot;It needs c; In bed, asleep. Ss of iceer at him. 9 VERONICA is bouncing on rampoline. Dore is reading Floh Anne. quot;Youre about as tender as a sea lion,quot; s;; quot;I remember before.quot; quot; make you feel t; quot;Nervous.quot; quot;ere very tolerant.quot; quot;I see t. s t w; quot;Veronica.quot; quot;Is s?quot; quot;S mindless trampoline. S a prob?lem t s; quot;Makes me nervous.quot; quot;Everyt; quot;true.quot; quot;Is tasy for you? tuation?quot; quot;Its not a fantasy, is it.quot; quot;It ructure of a male fantasy.quot; quot;t possible o look at it.quot; quot;ell scre; quot;Our purpose .quot; Surns in long sions. quot;o sc; quot;; quot; did you learn?quot; quot;Lots of important stuff. Almost everybody Ive met since in my first-grade class. Maybe ty-t class. Every type represented. o somebody in my first-grade class I ted a rare bird.quot; quot;o college? as it ; quot;No it ; quot;Lots of people didnt go to ; quot;t not enoug; quot;Maybe tart a branc; quot;t feel t; quot;s redeye gravy?quot; quot;; quot;Can ; quot;Go a; quot;Blackeyed peas?quot; quot;I love blackeyed peas.quot; quot;Collard greens.quot; quot;Fine.quot; quot;ell need some corn likker.quot; quot;try tore.quot; quot;Be good if ; quot;I dra ; quot;Simon, Im trying to do t.quot; quot;I kno; Siful, ail. -s. quot; are you going to do after ; she asks. quot;Go back to ; quot;t to do?quot; quot;ork is Gods best invention. Keeps you all seized up and interested.quot; quot;I wis; quot;You could alo sc; quot;I dont like standing in lines.quot; quot;I kno of my standing-in-line capacity.quot; quot;But suppose youre at a reception and youre going to meet t and t; quot;Im not in a o meet t. If s to come over and tle guacamole dip, ts fine. My door is al; quot;You dont care about anyt; quot;Listening to t; quot;You do love your radios.quot; quot;Im tting anoterproof jobs for t; quot;I like a quiet reflective bat; quot;Ill come in and put toads in ter.quot; quot; toads in Ney?quot; quot;toad store. t big toads, little toads, oads, no-oads --quot; quot;Its a great city.quot; quot;Its a great argument for cities.quot; Simon ed very muco be a y, optimistic American, like t, but on t trust y, optimistic Americans, like t. y t t, really y and optimistic but ratentially disastrous processes in o be ttled for being a compe?tent, sometimes inventive arcect ragic sense of brick. Brick erial as tress ectural metap o resist. to force o fres about bamboo. Getting old, Simon. Not so limber, dear friend, time for tory? ttle blue van. Your iny pepperoni. Your knees predict your face. Your back stabs you, on t side, to a microdot. ere ordering your rocking coo good for you. Also, not good for you. Are you King Solomon? Your king?dom a scant ter incer snakes among ter belts too. Your garden is over-cultivated, it needs ely? You run t, a year and a ric treadmill, a solid steel barbell curl bar, a digital pedometer. Use the women away. almost unfurnisment iful t knoaciturn as coo te question, proba?bly did not knoaken place. No, too of Spi?noza and Cyndi Lauper floating in t. o find all table ing at o strip off lemanly ktend to all t once, just as obviously an impossibility. urn and said, quot;Okay, guys, youve back to t; t boy alent, muttered Manet to Monet one afternoon in t Renoir. quot;Out, out, out,quot; ed, and ttered, giggling. One nigs to suck, stered Romulus. get a part of her. SIMON and Dore sitting in tche radio making music. quot;t music late at nig; Dore said. quot;; quot;ts Keitt.quot; quot;; quot;Piano player. Very famous.quot; quot;s t funny noise?quot; quot;; quot;O of different stuff, dont you. ; quot;Fifty-t; quot;You dont look it. You look maybe fifty, fifty-one. t was good c; quot;t; quot;I Lupton. It ; quot;By ; quot;All t ; quot;Norocution.quot; quot;I read about it.quot; quot;All to trivance --quot; quot;ter --quot; quot;t! ; quot;Its ; quot;to t bad ne; quot;t!quot; quot;try runs on c; quot;Just t. A little bird like t. Fueling tion.quot; quot;At nig cories, .quot; quot;t do it in time?quot; quot;Under cover of nig realize tent.quot; quot;If I ; quot;tter.quot; quot;; quot;You dont to kno; quot;Simon. Youre not a serious man.quot; quot;Yes I am.quot; Dore likes to scold people. does not meet ions for appropriate behavior, Dore scolds. quot;Simon youre not supposed to talk to Anne like t.quot; quot;Like ; quot;You ; quot;In ; quot;Okay, s o explain it to ; quot;as I pompous?quot; quot;Not more t incredulous look. Like you couldnt believe t somebodyd never ; quot;It ; quot;Simon you are t; quot;t does not absolve you of ty of kno; quot;ts pompous. ts truly pompous. ts just alking about. And anot; quot;O?quot; quot; joke about George Gers; quot;ell?quot; quot;Anne didnt kno make jokes t are based on people not knos not fair. Its demeaning to ; quot;o ; quot;omen dont pay t muctention to silly t. All t detail. And t; quot;; quot;You sake times. Just be?cause mean t ake time.quot; quot;Okay. Good point.quot; quot;e dont like sitting in t tacky laundromat any better t; quot;I told you to leave it and let t.quot; quot;You save for four peoples clot to ten dol?lars. I ts significant.quot; quot;But you dont o do it t ; quot;Also I met teresting guy t time. ler.quot; ening to one of ison board sec?ond speaker. talking about drum?mers. quot;Cozy Cole comes straig of C; . quot;Big Sid Catlett. Zutty Singleton, Dave tougo go even furt to Krupa and Buddy Ric; Simon taxes tempt to extract from it ten additional drummers. Louis Bellson. St Deems. Mel Ley bass players. Our nation is ricalent, hinks. her in California. quot; do ?quot; he asks. quot; fool boug?quot; quot;A friend.quot; ands ;Youve got to boil t of it,quot; s;; quot;Four.quot; quot;Id give it to four ock s. Never did see t of carrots but t be good for somet in some red ; quot;t some people ; quot;; quot;Doing ric fellows; quot;Every little bit ; ;You and Carol speaking to eac; quot;At intervals. S; quot;Does s; quot;Probably. I dont kno; quot;Make a sauce for it ock. Cs best cold. ts all I kno brisket. You could stick some red cabbage into t for t ty minutes of cooking. Also, if I ; quot;; quot;Do ells you,quot; she says, and hangs up. o present oug, ts t trous pograpting by ting a formidable sex?uality. toug raticle, ready for Clark Gable and Lord Mountbatten, too. NE arcecture is quot;soulless,quot; Simon reads, again and again and again. rouble dis?agreeing alked about is a seventy-story curtain- like to live or ter extreme. No building saller t; on tere fa?ade pleases arcects; people like decoration, a modicum of drama. Embassies are noy as one moves deeper and deeper into t secure space, deep inside, mig. Reconcile t al detectors set up at trances of scoting ackens in supermarkets (part of ter a jeore and above tproof glass s and a guy gun. Giant concrete flos all around tol arcecture ter, civilize tral to mucectural t, Corbusier, Gropius, even rigy is not s do best, traint no at all soulless, rattage indus?try, S.O.M. notanding. t seems to he circus. quot;Mans co glorify God and to enjoy ; says ening to a lot of Cian rock lately, finds it surprisingly robust. Jesus is rock in a weary land. ian rock. Dore comes in and s in his ear. he makes a sound like a smoke alarm. off s been t ter of a pencil eraser. tor is a tall gloomy man . e time, able and is scraping ate es. First, four sings as ererizes the blood vessels. Simon es a cy-five dollars. o tment from tors office, some?ty-five blocks. Its cool and cloudy out. Bumptious loudmouteenagers coming doreet, jostling people. Simon sidesteps t s em all. An absolutely beautiful oer turning. ell, hree. 10 kind of ani?mal ifies ation for best. Neglected by to industry: no Ford Giraffes on too en commented upon, and a pe?culiar gait, sort of a shamble. s a call from his wife, Carol, in Philadelphia. quot;You paid t; s;On eit stopped by a cop yesterday and t; quot;d you get stopped for?quot; quot;taillig; quot;Call Bud at tell o take care of it,quot; Simon says. quot; all t; quot;Considering o, Im rea?sonably sane. t mucter t it ; quot;tself a plan,quot; Simon says. quot;; quot;Sory.quot; quot;Oory?quot; quot;to e papers.quot; quot;Sing papers.quot; quot;Sypeer.quot; quot;Buy ypeer.quot; quot;Simon, Ive got oto do. Ill give I cant futz around sype?ers.quot; quot;Okay, fine. Is s; quot;S ; quot;; quot;Very Brit. are you doing?quot; quot;Reading. alking around.quot; quot;Cail.quot; quot;No Im not c; quot;It a sociological observation. I dont care.quot; quot;I kno.quot; quot;Keep in touc; quot;I ; quot;Your bad brot; Simon says to Dore. quot;; quot;Noty-to t. ion noo deal. calculating en people up. .quot; S an empty wineglass. Simon pouring. quot;ually. ric car, eries t o be c t alloteries to rec like gas engines recteries. tiny computer in t ole. ners up t money and ype of t but ting for ; quot;Couldnt arted up again after out?quot; quot; . ried, drove ry?ing. ill trying.quot; quot;Bad luck.quot; quot;Yea could do ninety on too. My family is not exactly a blue-cfit.quot; Sakes of ;You drink too muc; quot;Goddamnit ; quot;Id e to see your liver.quot; quot;Most unlikely t you ever ; quot;And I dont like it t ake all t; quot;Anyt; quot;Yes. t clean.quot; quot;So clean it.quot; quot;Its a matter of setting an example. Youre t; quot;s t mean?quot; quot;Big c; quot;Not ; quot;Im talking basic reality.quot; A: I sometimes t I mean, could doesnt matter icularly. Just someting ad, maybe a quarter of a page, and I suddenly t, it migeresting to do t. Even to trying to bring Cuba douff uff in Central America. . . tly straig;; or somet, quot;aptitude for learning a foreign language is a plusquot; or somet, Ive al languages, and Im sitting t look to tarting completely over in sometely netraction, a definite at?traction. Of course ty-five. I guess t them more malleable. Q: So, in the evenings or on weekends -- A: Not every nigances. Sometimes my to dinner celevision -- Q: But in the main -- A: It t often. It was once in a while. Q: Adultery is a sin. A: It is classified as a sin, yes. Absolutely. Q: t says -- A: I kno says. I . But. Q: But w? A: t is wrong. Q: Its wrong? A: Its wrong. Q: t? A: I dont knoranslation from tever, it may not even knoainly do not pretend to sc my sense of tter is t t is an error. Q: ell if t rue it of t it? A: take t. Q: old your wife? A: Yes, Carol knows. Q: ake it? A: ell, s. You could reason t it to support t for tion of t and t of t to reason t o take an extremely narroable. Sold me t s me, sed a suite of en or ty -- Q: did you say? A: I said, Go to it. Q: Myself, I t being just sort of a regular person, one , every little tion of cancer, no I dont to go for my every-t s, o me to be a proper set of to . Last things. A: I dont t adultery. t an opinion, of course. Q: So it, pursue -- A: You t taggering concept, tting around t t travelodge? I t. Q: ell o t every particular instance, sort of laid out the general prin?ciples -- A: ed creatures wh a single pow?erful glance -- Q: the eyes burn. A: they do. Q: t leaps. A: Like a terrapin. Q: Stupid youturns. A: Like icks falling out of a long-s closet. Q: Do you play? A: I did. Many years ago. Q: You find them in parks. A: Ive noticed t. Q: t in parks a lot. Especially wary bench. Shoulders raised, legs kick?ing -- Penn, t master ?tering. Once ood being table and muttered for almost five minutes. tect oo intimidated to ask ory old of Ka , tro smen, ty of t for take a roll of tracing paper and go from board to board, leaving critiques of eacects three principals. I love t, Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction as a text. All t and ripes. Mic of all: quot;eal I leave a knife.quot; An appropriate iment. tecture labs at Penn i. quot;t of it.quot; quot;ects.quot; quot;to ; e under. as it golden? Conventionally described as golden. te bircained do ion? Some people vote for black under t to Saint-Gaudens, about Renoir, quot;ter.quot; Dressed edly told ing in a male fantasy, in asies (taj Ma denied t suc y years. IN terryclot at t on talian rolls, green garlicked Krauterbutter, a quarter-pound of breast of veal. S, takes pride in varying t kidney ste, blueberry crepes and teak en biscuits. quot;t; Veronica says, quot;nicely done, but rying to kill us, or ; quot;try more pepper.quot; Still in s, sotles doion of times, Revco Gets $1.16 Billion Buyout Bid, troubled Farm Banks to Get Regulatory Aid, Jap?anese Setback on Cc o MtV (so seen minutes). to tuesday class, Investment Strategies for ties. quot; in?quot; Simon asks. quot;Im auditing,quot; s;I go early and get a seat. take t; quot;You getting anyt of it?quot; quot;You cant play unless you o play ill, its educational.quot; After class, o tares, on occasion, at tiful body at rest, face do miracles of ba can perform tor quite una on to t does not. At nigs oget four Dickens novels in ions at trand and is moving t;t Dickens is,quot; sells ; ; quot;So?quot; Simon says. quot;I identify .quot; Late at nigs ening to horace Silver. quot;Youre t; he says. quot;Im not. Last among equals.quot; quot;Veronicas a ; quot;Sest.quot; quot;; Dore giggles. quot;e all ail outlet in Denver. It ; quot;Is t clot; quot;Yes. Clot; Dore knorick yle, moving from one very important assignment to t, a bit rus-to-us-noime in large organizations, understands e its brittle bouncy R.A.F. au?ty. Veronica das of confusion all lurco eacher as if blindfolded. Simon shambles. Veronica is often out on mysterious errands upon. is sries not to t ts none of ing. Is saking a s as a blackjack dealer in Atlantic City? Loading container sc ties in a bucket sreet? ties o contemplate. Sers in a flurry, arv?ing. Simon plops a stuffed pork ce, ice alking about life after death. quot;No ; Anne says, quot;do I to live after deats is.quot; quot;But youre not close to t,quot; says Dore. quot;t near. ly.quot; quot;I doubt it. An eternity of keeping ts tidy? No t; quot;t place. ts not it. t place. ts not it. is it, Simon?quot; quot;Dont kno; quot;Private,quot; says Veronica. quot;te place. I remember t one. o say t t; quot;But o some?t s and mendicant friars in t; quot;Like ; Anne says. quot;Some kind of c; quot;C for our sins,quot; Dore says, quot;everybody kno. tion is wime you die youve done enougo be punis; quot;I ,quot; Veronica says. quot;I dropped out ually to leave be?cause sen years and t oo flagrant.quot; quot; denomination ?quot; Anne asks. quot;Assembly of God. tto ement. It ing tee called on old it e of apple juice.quot; quot;I kind of liked it,quot; Dore said. quot;I guess it arian personality. e ake everyt ; quot;A simple Presbyterian.quot; Veronica places five able. quot;A little contribution to t; quot; t?quot; quot;It ; quot;So, w; quot;O.t.B.quot; quot;You bastard! ; quot;Crus; SIMON buys an art by tist Jos a lot of automobile bumpers smasogeto a sculp?tural block. Its very small, ten incly framed. rouble placing it on ty ment; , it looks ri?diculous. Finally by t door. Anne looks at it. quot;s t?quot; quot;A print.quot; quot;; quot;Guy named C; quot;Not very big.quot; quot;No its not.quot; S;Car bumpers.quot; quot;Yes.quot; quot;I like it.quot; quot;So do I.quot; quot;terribly small. For t; quot;t t; quot;Looks funny all alone like t.quot; quot;A brave little picture. ; quot;I guess if you like it and I like it, ts all t counts.quot; Surns and her hand. quot;S of you to try.quot; quot;e can get more. One of t; quot;Maybe just ua?tion.quot; quot; do you mean by tuation?quot; quot;e dogs for dinner.quot; quot;ed dogs?quot; quot;I just intuited it.quot; quot;Getting pretty domestic around ; Scc by the blade in a dangerous manner. quot;I guess. Still, rut; Sarah calls. quot; w; she asks. quot;t ; quot;; quot;A guest. I c; quot;Bluebeard.quot; quot;; quot;I got a neypeer.quot; quot; kind?quot; quot;Smit can spell fifty t.quot; quot;More t.quot; quot;Me too. I got pregnant. Mom tell you?quot; quot;No. S.quot; quot;taneously aborted. Last mont; quot;Sold me. Or you sold me.quot; quot;No big deal.quot; quot;t; quot;Yea back.quot; quot;; quot;old o go.quot; quot;; quot;Im not ; quot;Probably t; Simon says. quot;Some kind of cer fla; quot;ts it,quot; s;You coming ime soon?quot; quot;Itll be a ; ;Sie, you can come over .quot; quot;Scared of ; 11 SIMON remembered Sararied to turn off television set. tured to a full-scale tantrum tle drums and cannon. Sely fond of Daffy Duck, alte. S t Simon still marveled at. s marco isfaction s;You are making me angry.quot; After tence joined tence-o language acquisition. In to to bed tling in bet little groans of satisfaction. ed to be a balle?rina. utu out of some pink gauzy material and s te Danskins, and a cardboard tiara on all gesturing cactus. een sing, frigem in question ube of lip gloss called Penumbra. t to ried to cut meat from it. quot;ts not t is for!quot; old o s up, it , for any damned to including cleaning trap if o. Mitt niger dinner sold to eat onions from t. tanding on tcable and singing Im pretty Im pretty And I dont care Memories of mitt. quot;t; quot;; quot;S kno for pizza and stopped at t. S to see if it ; quot;And ; quot;A black guy. alked up to ; quot;d s; quot;nam vet.quot; quot;; quot;nam vet and Im crazy. t; quot;Did s; quot;Of course not, s ; quot;Did it ; quot;No it an old lady. Rig t so ; quot; ; quot;ter . Fell do t; quot;Is ; quot;took ; quot; o t; quot;.quot; quot;Is Veronica okay?quot; quot;Sure. So it. Being bas town you ; Dore is angry. S the frozen pizza came in. quot;Youre actually going to feed us t; quot;s tter ?quot; quot;t; quot;So its frozen.quot; quot;Do you knos got in it? Enric; quot;s tter ; quot;t flour, niacin, reduced iron, trate, and riboflavin.quot; quot;All great stuff. I remember riboflavin from my c it in ies or somet; quot;ere just getting started. ere just going into our er, ed soybean oil, yeast, salt, and sometioner. tioners got sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium sulfate and sodium sulfite.quot; quot;Soybeans are good. Invented by Martin Lut; quot;Moving rig cooked pork and mozzarella citute. ti?tute contains er, casein, ed soybean oil -- you notice t of ic acid, natural flavor is, modified cornstarcrate, sorbic acid, sodium pe, artificial color, guar gum, magnesium, oxide, ferric orte, zinc oxide, B-12, folic acid, B-6 amin A palmitate, xantrate -- I ask you.quot; quot;?quot; quot;Is try set?quot; quot;Doesnt taste too bad.quot; quot;I could make a nuclear uff t.quot; A bare leg against a purplis. they discuss him. quot;een pounds.quot; quot;I ts kind of cute. Like Santa Claus does it say a bo; Good s. ts in ; quot;And good posture. ere you ever in t; quot;t; quot;?quot; quot;In t; quot;You do anyt; quot;Of a military nature? No, I just put in my time.quot; quot;A little bo you t; quot;Its not bos just t too close toget; quot;Big feet.quot; quot;ell ; quot;ttle toilo my eye.quot; quot;You need to use some kind of lotion, Simon, Lubriderm or --quot; quot;But ill got pretty mucs a plus.quot; quot;I t, Simon, get a ss not today.quot; quot;Veronica can cut it for you. Veronica kno ; quot;A five-buck tip, Simon, ts all it takes. ty for t and five for tip.quot; they say, over and over: quot;Catc?quot; quot;Catc?quot; quot;Catc?quot; Anne says, quot;You never o stand around in your frillies you.quot; quot;ell, ts true.quot; quot;Also, my boobs are too small.quot; quot;By andard?quot; quot;Generally accepted standards.quot; s are in fact quite perfect. quot;Look, dear friend,quot; ;one ains, cut to grossos es in eaco find a more beautiful self.quot; quot;Do you really t?quot; quot;Of course.quot; quot;Doesnt do me any good if Im dumb, does it?quot; quot; makes you t; quot;If I dumb I be a professional model.quot; quot;Doesnt follo --quot; elligent but e. quot;Lauren ton,quot; he says. quot;Soo.quot; quot;tons of intelligence t; ;A glance convinces. Probably dreams t; quot;Youre very supportive, Simon.quot; quot;I love you guys.quot; quot;ts t time youve said t.quot; quot;I slipped.quot; quot;ere in Marc?quot; quot;teent; quot;eve been , a mont; quot;Just about.quot; quot;So. Are you satisfied?quot; quot;In ; quot;it; quot;Of course. Very muc; quot;Youre not going to boot us out.quot; quot;?quot; quot;Maybe you dont like t; quot;Do I seem itc; quot;I cant tell a ; quot;Look, Im fine. I dont too ; quot;Yeas a problem. S , you knoy for t. S out.quot; quot;; quot;Its , I guess. S knocked around a lot as a kid. Salks about it sometimes.quot; quot;People get over it.quot; quot;No t.quot; A: A dead bear in a blue dress, face docrip over it, in t up at 2 A.M. to see if to eat in tor. Its an arcectural problem, marriage. If e eac particularly gay -- It as it manifestations, early in te at nigsy obsessed noontimes. get t a rank pigfooted belc a ?ment. An impenetrable . It very e block, basically, ion on top of t and srock on top of t. Q: ell, make you feel? Adultery. A: tain amount of guilt attacy. But I feel guilty even adultery. I exist in a morass of guilt. ttle additional but I already feel so guilty t I ice it. Q: come from? tra-adulterous guilt? A: I keep elligent life on ots, tists argue t somet of ts ions, tions, to support life in t visit eac, go tine, ts, told t t go to bed tractive six-foot boll tle squirts of Opium be make sense. But of course our anding is imperfect. Q: You ans -- A: Yes, ts teresting t it is not guilt so muc is inadequacy. I feel t every?t get it right -- Q: ould you like to be able to fly? A: Its crossed my mind. Q: ttle strident dont you think? A: No I dont t. Q: Sometimes a little strident? A: Everybodys a little strident sometimes. Q: Sometimes you o scream to be t hink? A: I dont t. Q: I never scream. Im a doctor. A: Your good fortune. Q: It o do une. It o do strenuous intellectual effort. ere trident in bed? A: Different styles in bed as else. Stridency is a response to dissatisfaction. Q: isfaction? A: In sleep? if ter toget. forbade sucy? too muc to-middling brain at best, t kept it marcabolized cr¨¨me br?l¨¦e, but t enoug lacked vinegar. Simon drank vinegar in ttles sold to e of Paris, tle ter tasted. In Szerland, in t bad eit to live in a country so ferociously tidy. titutes in Zuricark black and reet furniture ornamental as taid perfect cops or trasse, muc a ced coffee service, a disadvantage. o do o MIt, make arcects of to t mullions, in tiring of mullions, turn to cladding, tack -cleaned pressure-ed steel. Quel happiness! Someone pregnant, everyone pregnant. At seventy eetroll out on t Buck. t?ball about t, tiful little c;Kaint anybody ; LIGernoon. tche big windows. Anne says, quot; are o do about t; quot;s to do?quot; Veronica asks. quot; anyt,quot; says Dore. quot;.quot; quot;I too circumspect.quot; quot;I t t; quot;I dont t.quot; quot;I dont t eit; quot;; quot;I dont t makes .quot; quot;oo mucter ter in just before .quot; quot;Butter makes everytaste better.quot; quot;o see if anyones c in. t around in t before anybody sees it.quot; quot;Its just an effort to raise t kind of s to raise ts not too terrible. typically American.quot; A majestic crashey jump. quot;t ; quot;Not too bad.quot; quot;But o do?quot; quot;Bide our time.quot; quot;I like t expression.quot; quot; ect before?quot; quot;I kneractor racted Port-O-Sans.quot; quot; are t; quot;Movable out; quot;Good Lord t; quot;Fifty-to be our fat; quot;Yet ain spirit.quot; quot;eve got to get somet; quot;Like ; quot;Somet; quot;to; quot;Its so big and vast.quot; quot; about t; quot;t; quot;; quot;At ters.quot; quot;Is t far a; quot;ay upto tryon Park.quot; quot; doing?quot; quot;It ing rat food. tuff t out to kill ts. In t. I read it in t; quot;Did it bite anybody?quot; quot;No. But t food didnt it, its stronger t mucronger and t food didnt affect it, it ion w; quot;ell its mate?quot; quot;ell maybe it didnt e. t finding its mate.quot; quot;So its mate is probably lurking around ters ing to bite someone.quot; quot;Probably no one o ters until ts mate.quot; quot;Maybe it didnt e. Maybe it was a bac; quot;ell you cant just assume t.quot; quot;Maybe it s mate. t got lost in t basements of ters.quot; quot;I dont knoicize a rabid skunk.quot; quot;I t; quot;.quot; quot;I dont t. t Ive ever seen.quot; quot; tell us apart.quot; quot;O ts true. ; quot;d you tell ; quot;I told ; quot;ell prove?quot; quot;ful. ell one from anoterested in us as individuals.quot; quot;Maybe its just a fa?ade. Maybe knoo do to make us t us as individuals and is doing it.quot; quot;? If us as indi?viduals?quot; quot;Because o us as individuals? Because it makes t; quot;ell if s to make t ; quot;Yes but you o make a distinction betain ; quot;ell even if erested in making tain means indifferent. to t .quot; quot;ts true.quot; quot;But maybe, on t us as individuals.quot; quot;; quot;ttle touctle individual touc; quot;Like ; quot;ell kno, its a kind of ion, it, by it I mean t, a certain point, a kind of c lets go and t does it again.quot; quot;ell it?quot; quot;ell iced.quot; quot;ell I o do too.quot; quot;Like ; quot;ell ts my business isnt it? I dont necessarily o go around explaining my tec; quot;ell I tting too mucecs interesting but its not t us on an individual basis.quot; quot;?quot; quot;Maybe est.quot; quot;I dont to respond o a test. It mig; quot;ell t t; quot;I kno but ; quot;I for my birt; quot;; quot;ty-five dollars.quot; quot;tll take us about to t; 12 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 ¨¦lan 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; quot;; quot;Aetna Life and Casualty.quot; 13 VERONICA is missing. Not precisely missing, absent, rations t. t;I wonder w; quot;Probably ; Dore says. quot;t; Simon asks. quot;Guy s at t,quot; Anne says. quot;; quot;If s t?quot; quot;So y. S; quot;Probably time. time of ; says Dore. quot;tting t no; Dore reads ty s is mar?keting a corrective for dry eye, or ty to tear, a painful and depressing condition t afflicts less foreigners, she says. quot; kind of a name is t; Simon asks irrita?bly. quot;I ts a beautiful name,quot; Dore says. quot;Very Scandinavian.quot; quot;ell if s get ty damn quick Im going to give ; quot;Simon!quot; Anne exclaims. quot;Youre being possessive!quot; quot;I dont mean it.quot; quot;I knos t.quot; quot;You dont me to be possessive.quot; On treet Simon and Anne gaze at a brand-netering candy red. quot;I dont like ; he says. quot;Yeas insensitive.quot; Simon makes a sure h his hand. quot;t snout.quot; Anne nods. quot;Very ill --quot; s an arm around ;t car I ever boug; quot;Before my time,quot; she says. quot;A boxy little ragtop. er t I liked as muc; quot;During ; quot;You getting on me?quot; quot;Not me.quot; quot;And I o take us for oysters at ter Bar.quot; quot;Im ready.quot; quot;A certain dryness sets in. tuation dries out, as it ; quot;I didnt mean to pry.quot; quot; everyt. Dont do t anymore.quot; quot;Yout; quot;Id still like to t; quot;I used to ; Anne says. quot;Disturbed c; quot;Not more disturbed t ordinary c; quot; did you do?quot; quot;I oget; quot;Can you be more specific?quot; quot;I just of like anybody else. t of finiso paper plates. I ; quot;You ; quot;Yea ed greige. Gray-beige. t to of brigs anot; quot;So ; quot;You cant generalize, t. Not every c time. t. For example, some of t; At ter Bar under Grand Central t at a table next to four men in business suits. One of ttenlike socks on and oe and t of t foot, o Simon like a Gibson. Q: You must be tired. Fatigued. A: No Im not a bit tired. Q: All of t. . . activity must you a bit tired. A: Yes I suppose you could t. Q: Youre not tired. A: You mean mentally tired? Q: Physically. A: No Im not tired. I feel fine. Q: he headaches? A: been hem. Q: t doesnt mean t come back. A: the job. Q: It aspirin it ylenol. Extra-Strengtylenol. A: Did the job. Q: Yes its supposed to be quite good. tail men, ts of to patients. Free. A: ts extremely generous. Q: ell ot rot, ts and buckets. All brightly colored. A: I assume you dont drink. Except in moderation. Q: Also, Ive given up smoking. It e a battle. t o be bros not. A: You feel better. Q: I feel a little less stupid. So you ty muchs. . . A: As a situation, as a domestic situation, it unstressful. turally, competing interests, people s at any one time con?gruent -- Q: You mean t. A: terly most of time. Once in a w. Q: Using w means? A: Moutly. Q: Not laceration of tearing, bosom-bashing. . . A: None of t. t of time, very good to one another. Q: Remarkable. A: I t so. Q: married, y, I didnt kno kno somebody old me? A: Perhaps your wife? Q: Of course soo s go around saying, toris and t its proper function is and t you can do to . I finally found it. In a book. A: German? Q: Dutch. DORE sitting in tc. truggling in midair near thus. quot;t one sucker is going to get t; s;Going to clean ; quot;ts t is in t; says tim. quot; does ; quot;Dont kno; quot;You t lately?quot; quot;Morose,quot; s;I get a definite moroseness.quot; quot;Yeas kind of alking about. Some people cant stand prosperity.quot; quot;You ts to go back to P; quot; said yea or nay. I gat so wonderful in P; quot;o sc; quot;Cornell.quot; quot; did you study?quot; quot;Electrical engineering.quot; quot;Is t a good place for it?quot; quot;Its okay.quot; quot;s your ; quot;Carol.quot; quot;Everybodys ice t?quot; quot;I didnt kno, no.quot; quot;Is sty?quot; quot;No. Maybe kind of.quot; quot;Os s; quot;I can see tle red yarmulke on you o kiss. Standing just to t of to t; quot;Is t Mac; quot;I guy w; quot; does s; quot;Not muc t; quot;But ts only temporary.quot; quot;By me everytemporary. Good t; quot;t must be fascinating. terminacy.quot; quot;Its fascinating.quot; 14 nine pounds (a great blessing) dur?ing t montment. t been sloo criticize oes, teetics. quot;It seems to me,quot; Veronica ;t you y.quot; quot;My first social responsibility,quot; ;is t t collapse.quot; quot;Rig rig; s;but you are after all a creature of tructure. You ructure.quot; true enougionaries didnt build buildings, needed only clos?ets to oil tects tics from a K-Mart of sources, to-sen troopers of Sixty Minutes. ten left and rigion, sometimes tence. ing. A feed on too muc carefully about a sufficiency. of en, as insufficiently virile, or insuffi?ciently ambitious. ation? On t it? Anne some?times looked like a ty-year-old, especially s, tall and bossy, t, and Veronica ake your cical, great lip on t kid, never a spiked re?mark. el, didnt mind being a el, okay Im a el. taking turns, five or six oclock, e very good on for a long urn to one anoto lick t, quite near, Simon ones buttocks, around and ttocks ive strokes, raking t intervals, but softly, little bites, but softly, the flesh is so delicious Dore said, or Anne said. quot;YOUVE been bad Veronica.quot; quot;No I ts not bad ts all.quot; quot;I agree ; quot;No I I dont call t --quot; quot;Very bad.quot; quot;I dont call t bad ts not all you s Ive seen if you to talk about --quot; quot;Yes Veronica yes of course of course Veronica I didnt t it w; quot;Dore dont go I been bad s trying to tell you Ive been bad but I mean are you going to be?lieve because s; quot;ell ; quot;Bad.quot; quot;You see.quot; quot;O talking about everyt stle somet tle somet s rition --quot; quot;I dont mind making ; quot;Veronica, are you essentially ; quot;ell spit. ts ; quot;Youre not going to talk is t it?quot; quot; ; quot;Im not going to er you cant a sister even a bad sister ts one of ternal rules not even a terribly, terribly bad sister. Like Veronica.quot; quot;Im about as bad as I to be, so far. I t about grasped to be in ture ; quot;I dont to acknos. I dont ty. I give up I ab?solutely give up.quot; quot; to I dont care. t; quot;O stand t; quot;I dont to ; quot; me.quot; quot; ; quot; ; quot;God I dont kno kick do I care its not my problem is it. ; quot;You dont ts a little severe?quot; quot;Its gonna take a goddamn presidential order to get you to ; quot;; quot;Okay Ive been bad. I admit it. But ot some fingers.quot; quot;Lord Im tired of listening to t get it toget to five minutes Im going to --quot; quot;?quot; SIMONS fato California for to buy a dark suit, to Barneys and picked t one t seemed to fit ood next to er said for troduced as Connie and Bill and to be golfers, part of a mixed foursome o be present because of a daug play. After s ; are you doing?quot; quot;taking a little time off.quot; quot;Its been mont; quot;Excellent mont; quot;Just asking.quot; quot;s tuation?quot; quot;Your fat t, as you kno Carbide years ago at t before seventy-t trouble. ten tually it up to seventy-eig uff ts looking good.quot; quot; coming to Ne and buy a lot of furniture.quot; quot;I dont to buy any more furniture,quot; ;I like it o see feels. If I need you Ill call you, rely on it.quot; quot;Noture.quot; quot;I agree. But it o be going to; Noto say to t. of red?ook a stain ifully. tens of of California red lumberman in tate, but not t. Simon remembered odd mo?ments: putting a ersaurant and elling ;Dont do t, son, it ?ting by tening to t, sitting by t long in 1939 listening to accounts of t to Penn, old it, and ; are o tell your mot; to release a burst of neive energy, not sadness and admiration. Back in Ney. registered to vote. Nevertifully o 60 Centre Street one Monday morning. teents Building are filled s at least ty paperback copies of le Carres ttle Drummer Girl, ion or of a trade journal dealing ting furiously, a sleeveless ser, as salks. quot;e make nine ,quot; s;Can you believe it?quot; Seen issues a year, o ninety-six pages of editorial and God knos o to feature after a s are take a lot of clues from tists. Mempter and clatter.quot; tor tells ant is a berserko and t its impossible to get good subordi?nates t;t is accused of sexual misconduct,quot; tells t;ill t stand up so t t; t stands and almost involuntarily takes a little boorneys, questioning Simon in t ect. At ts, in a cluster of fast food stands in a little park near t?. t urned doaylor, Cmans, Saks, Macys. tried all tarting . Simon designed and ed composites for t t every ad agency of any size in ty. titute teacions but found tate credentials ion tions for t?ment but old t t tion be?fore 1999, o begin train?ing. Anne and Veronica are fighting. quot;Stupid bitc; quot;Ass; quot;Cmon, guys,quot; Simon says. quot;s t; quot;S; Anne says. quot;Crummy c.quot; quot;Look ; Veronica says, jumping out of Annes reac;Miss Cunt of 1986.quot; quot;s t? s t; quot;Simon youre so fucking reasonable,quot; Veronica says, sitting dohe couch. quot;I say, ; quot;S us a job,quot; Anne says. quot;terrific,quot; says Simon. quot;s t; quot;Convention. tional Sprinkler Association. At to stand under t sprinkled. I do it.quot; quot; if ts?quot; quot;Its not raincoats t to see.quot; quot; if I said transparent plastic raincoats?quot; quot;I mig ransparent plastic raincoats.quot; quot;Ill call t s two ; quot;Raincoats and body stockings.quot; quot;No tockings.quot; quot;Let tions.quot; quot;I just feel like a body.quot; quot; in Gods name do you t?quot; quot;I kno; quot;Look at it t; Simon says. quot;A body is a gift. A great body is a great gift.quot; quot;All I need. A Unitarian minister.quot; quot;You dont o take t; quot;e dont ; quot;You me to make a little pile of money and burn it rigake it easy. ait until you find somet.quot; quot;ere concubines.quot; quot;You can make everyterrible as you ,quot; Simon says. quot;Im going to bed.quot; quot;; Simons ter arrives and outlines s full custody of treet y-five t at a level consonant yle of life, fifty percent of all re?tirement funds, IRA, Keogy per?cent of nerserest in tuity, and fifty percent of all odds and ends of stocks, bonds, casy not subsumable under one of t ion and t , t?ter suggests. quot; are you going to do?quot; Veronica asks. quot;Give it to ; quot;ere you really t bad?quot; quot;ating it a bit.quot; quot;e are pure skin.quot; 15 nine pounds (a great blessing) dur?ing t montment. t been sloo criticize oes, teetics. quot;It seems to me,quot; Veronica ;t you y.quot; quot;My first social responsibility,quot; ;is t t collapse.quot; quot;Rig rig; s;but you are after all a creature of tructure. You ructure.quot; true enougionaries didnt build buildings, needed only clos?ets to oil tects tics from a K-Mart of sources, to-sen troopers of Sixty Minutes. ten left and rigion, sometimes tence. ing. A feed on too muc carefully about a sufficiency. of en, as insufficiently virile, or insuffi?ciently ambitious. ation? On t it? Anne some?times looked like a ty-year-old, especially s, tall and bossy, t, and Veronica ake your cical, great lip on t kid, never a spiked re?mark. el, didnt mind being a el, okay Im a el. taking turns, five or six oclock, e very good on for a long urn to one anoto lick t, quite near, Simon ones buttocks, around and ttocks ive strokes, raking t intervals, but softly, little bites, but softly, the flesh is so delicious Dore said, or Anne said. quot;YOUVE been bad Veronica.quot; quot;No I ts not bad ts all.quot; quot;I agree ; quot;No I I dont call t --quot; quot;Very bad.quot; quot;I dont call t bad ts not all you s Ive seen if you to talk about --quot; quot;Yes Veronica yes of course of course Veronica I didnt t it w; quot;Dore dont go I been bad s trying to tell you Ive been bad but I mean are you going to be?lieve because s; quot;ell ; quot;Bad.quot; quot;You see.quot; quot;O talking about everyt stle somet tle somet s rition --quot; quot;I dont mind making ; quot;Veronica, are you essentially ; quot;ell spit. ts ; quot;Youre not going to talk is t it?quot; quot; ; quot;Im not going to er you cant a sister even a bad sister ts one of ternal rules not even a terribly, terribly bad sister. Like Veronica.quot; quot;Im about as bad as I to be, so far. I t about grasped to be in ture ; quot;I dont to acknos. I dont ty. I give up I ab?solutely give up.quot; quot; to I dont care. t; quot;O stand t; quot;I dont to ; quot; me.quot; quot; ; quot; ; quot;God I dont kno kick do I care its not my problem is it. ; quot;You dont ts a little severe?quot; quot;Its gonna take a goddamn presidential order to get you to ; quot;; quot;Okay Ive been bad. I admit it. But ot some fingers.quot; quot;Lord Im tired of listening to t get it toget to five minutes Im going to --quot; quot;?quot; SIMONS fato California for to buy a dark suit, to Barneys and picked t one t seemed to fit ood next to er said for troduced as Connie and Bill and to be golfers, part of a mixed foursome o be present because of a daug play. After s ; are you doing?quot; quot;taking a little time off.quot; quot;Its been mont; quot;Excellent mont; quot;Just asking.quot; quot;s tuation?quot; quot;Your fat t, as you kno Carbide years ago at t before seventy-t trouble. ten tually it up to seventy-eig uff ts looking good.quot; quot; coming to Ne and buy a lot of furniture.quot; quot;I dont to buy any more furniture,quot; ;I like it o see feels. If I need you Ill call you, rely on it.quot; quot;Noture.quot; quot;I agree. But it o be going to; Noto say to t. of red?ook a stain ifully. tens of of California red lumberman in tate, but not t. Simon remembered odd mo?ments: putting a ersaurant and elling ;Dont do t, son, it ?ting by tening to t, sitting by t long in 1939 listening to accounts of t to Penn, old it, and ; are o tell your mot; to release a burst of neive energy, not sadness and admiration. Back in Ney. registered to vote. Nevertifully o 60 Centre Street one Monday morning. teents Building are filled s at least ty paperback copies of le Carres ttle Drummer Girl, ion or of a trade journal dealing ting furiously, a sleeveless ser, as salks. quot;e make nine ,quot; s;Can you believe it?quot; Seen issues a year, o ninety-six pages of editorial and God knos o to feature after a s are take a lot of clues from tists. Mempter and clatter.quot; tor tells ant is a berserko and t its impossible to get good subordi?nates t;t is accused of sexual misconduct,quot; tells t;ill t stand up so t t; t stands and almost involuntarily takes a little boorneys, questioning Simon in t ect. At ts, in a cluster of fast food stands in a little park near t?. t urned doaylor, Cmans, Saks, Macys. tried all tarting . Simon designed and ed composites for t t every ad agency of any size in ty. titute teacions but found tate credentials ion tions for t?ment but old t t tion be?fore 1999, o begin train?ing. Anne and Veronica are fighting. quot;Stupid bitc; quot;Ass; quot;Cmon, guys,quot; Simon says. quot;s t; quot;S; Anne says. quot;Crummy c.quot; quot;Look ; Veronica says, jumping out of Annes reac;Miss Cunt of 1986.quot; quot;s t? s t; quot;Simon youre so fucking reasonable,quot; Veronica says, sitting dohe couch. quot;I say, ; quot;S us a job,quot; Anne says. quot;terrific,quot; says Simon. quot;s t; quot;Convention. tional Sprinkler Association. At to stand under t sprinkled. I do it.quot; quot; if ts?quot; quot;Its not raincoats t to see.quot; quot; if I said transparent plastic raincoats?quot; quot;I mig ransparent plastic raincoats.quot; quot;Ill call t s two ; quot;Raincoats and body stockings.quot; quot;No tockings.quot; quot;Let tions.quot; quot;I just feel like a body.quot; quot; in Gods name do you t?quot; quot;I kno; quot;Look at it t; Simon says. quot;A body is a gift. A great body is a great gift.quot; quot;All I need. A Unitarian minister.quot; quot;You dont o take t; quot;e dont ; quot;You me to make a little pile of money and burn it rigake it easy. ait until you find somet.quot; quot;ere concubines.quot; quot;You can make everyterrible as you ,quot; Simon says. quot;Im going to bed.quot; quot;; Simons ter arrives and outlines s full custody of treet y-five t at a level consonant yle of life, fifty percent of all re?tirement funds, IRA, Keogy per?cent of nerserest in tuity, and fifty percent of all odds and ends of stocks, bonds, casy not subsumable under one of t ion and t , t?ter suggests. quot; are you going to do?quot; Veronica asks. quot;Give it to ; quot;ere you really t bad?quot; quot;ating it a bit.quot; quot;e are pure skin.quot; 16 SIMON meets t at ternational Arrivals Building, from ing, but s A, B, C, and D -- Russian poets so fabulously gifted t none of to publis. quot;ts terrific,quot; ;You look beautiful.quot; quot;t; s;tood Englisimes as good as regular Englis; Sices t ;s t?quot; eak, a steak big as a Sunday times. Seak into ;I dont get your metap; s;Is it ; S, it is tell her. t in c;t; ; a little. . . repetitive?quot; quot;My burning barns,quot; s;my splendid burning barns, Ill burn as many barns as I damn please, Pappy.quot; en years, and s altogetely stunning, a black ter-lengt embossed ted sleeveless jacket, a yello. quot;Seriously, do you too many? Barns?quot; Its t time s anyted ;I ; ;But t; s;Every one Ive ever kno; quot;Simon says,quot; Simon says, quot;Simon needs a beer.quot; So fetc. Pauli Girl from tor. t lives in try, in an old Putnam County farm s touc to paint ted over ture is junk golden oak, one piece to a room except in tcable and tc;t; t says, quot;from my motato-c tell you any?t; Simon takes train from Grand Central to Put?nam County. like train, almost al air conditioning, and es c Croton, train to anotampede t tately s at Garri?son at trip sting on toyota pickup, drinking apple juice from a paper cup. t sings to him: Row, row, row your bed Gently doream. . . tlers if t bitcarts dont keep tragic ance. quot;Sounded a little pissed,quot; Anne says. quot;t; says Veronica, quot;I guess you cant blame t itude.quot; Dore says, quot;Let ; quot;Simon is passive.quot; quot;I dont tigy of tant.quot; quot;I tive till sore. I dont call t passive.quot; quot; a strange place in ; quot;Youre like one of tiny little insig; quot;t; quot;Youre like one of tive gro in dismal exfoliations.quot; quot;Youre funnin me.quot; quot;Youre like one of t kno; quot;ell to be vulgar.quot; quot;Yes t; quot;; quot;I say.quot; quot;ell to be vulgar.quot; quot;You one?quot; quot;One ; quot;Bang.quot; quot;s it got on it?quot; quot;Sprinkles.quot; quot;Na decadent.quot; quot;; quot;You call t slender?quot; quot;I except t; quot;een times in a good mont; quot;ts depressing.quot; quot;I ts depressing.quot; quot;I really to be more vulgar t present being.quot; quot;ell ; quot;I guess nobody.quot; quot;I guess we could dance co-c; quot;I guess ear up some little buncs.quot; quot;ell to be destructive.quot; quot;e pretend to be okay.quot; quot;Im fine. Im really fine.quot; quot;I a lot of time on it, buffing tore, oiling t. us and reduce us to notters.quot; quot;?quot; quot;Read it in a feminist text.quot; quot;I gonna let us read any more books.quot; quot;?quot; quot;Just around. On to.quot; quot;Maybe it ter for us so be so exacerbated.quot; quot;Youre like one of t before its time.quot; quot;ell ts ; quot;I t; quot; is it?quot; quot;Camaro.quot; quot;Youre like one of tty dreams, knoy dreams.quot; quot;?quot; quot;I played in a band once.quot; quot; rument?quot; quot;tambourine.quot; quot;Cant get a union card for tambourine.quot; quot;My knee all black and blue, I banged my tambou?rine on it. First t; quot;I saiful ass. In a picture. It oo it iful picture.quot; quot; make you feel?quot; quot;Inferior.quot; quot;ell ts .quot; quot;Id like to lig; quot;Yes you ; quot;But I still t I t; quot;Its o get a scrape o lig; quot;Ive done it times.quot; quot;Leaves you .quot; quot;It does.quot; A: Ive crossed botroopslantic once, on a passenger liner. You stand out t t dusk, and tless, er in every direction, never-ending, you ter forever, t of t also seems inexorable, you feel you sev?enty million square miles, about one-t be making ty knots, Im eating oranges because ts all I can keep do ourist class, rato our table Paderees -- Q: I empted to become a s t science. A: But he scis?sors? Q: you realized t s going to stab you in the scissors? A: A lot of people go along assuming t. And t stabbed in the scissors. Q: You saion to tist . A: No no no. Q: Im a doctor. You can tell me. Im used to errible things. A: I felt blessed. Q: Your rembling. A: t imes. Q: ? A: All lovely, all. Q: I dont these women looked like. A: Dore on to it. A good inc as t oo, a blonder blond. Very good foreail a lot of time. Anne hair. Q: Did you feel, on treet o t, t you looked strange together? A: Never occurred to me. Q: You do cure sligood -- A: Notter hes. Q: You see clients in thes? A: Of course not. I put on a jacket and tie and -- Q: ie of rough wool -- A: Its a uniform, yes. Q: Im greatly comforted. I dont like to t of uniform. A: Nor do ts. Q: Bellies. Ive ally drao tle, less overt, sculptural repre?sentation of all tactile values e h -- A: All sculpture is about o look at it t ombs are about o look at it t he Grand Canyon. Q: tower? A: About o women. Q: he male? A: Monks. Q: Is t women? A: Speeds us toers go about tasks. Q: about coveting your neighbors wife? A: ell on one side, in Prictly speaking, t I dont covet able, quite lovely and spirited, but in point of fact our relations of neigart tery is dead, s acres of basil, not literally acres but -- Any ts mucing your neig speaking administra?tively, I dont see devoted to it. Its a mental exercise, coveting. to covet is not necessarily to take action. Q: I covet my neig Vari-Flo deal t lets you -- A: I obey ts, t knoalking about I ig?nore t tory of to t discoursing on tate. At turns to t;I le about it as ; Q: God critiques us, ique him. Does Carol also engage in dalliance? A: you are. I think she has friends whom she sees now and again. Q: make you feel? A: I wish her well. Q: s in your ? A: t cards, pictures of Saray dollars in cass -- Q: It seems to me t deal to . Does t itself in t til its cooked. A: Carol is mad for radis get enougoo. Q: I am feveriserested in tions. Et is. Moral precept?ing stings to attentiveness. A: Im only a bit depressed, only a bit. Q: A ne of ideas, based upon t ts, is not an index of decadence. Decadence itself is not as bad as its been painted. As for myself, I am con?tent oo little, I kno myself and I do not commend myself for it and pero co a s decisively to grasp -- A: the leaf blower, for example. 17 t gives ure of , badly composed, unflattering to omace oot;ook ture?quot; Simon asks. quot;Someone,quot; sc away from him. a figure in ;Youre not a poet, youre a real person,quot; s;Of course poets are funnier t; Ser?tainment t beautiful male poets in try. quot;But ; t;e keep tion open so t to aspire to,quot; siful poets? Are t or former lovers? Simon s berageously mean in practice? ts long red rays out over t foot taps time to a Pointer Sisters record. quot;t in your poems,quot; Simon asks, quot;is it al? Does it al mean one t; t places a , as if to ;My dust,quot; s;my ex?cellent dust. Youre a layman, Simon, s up about my dust.quot; S;; sy-t;It o put me t to go to medical sc; tty and blue atuary on it. quot;S t fund or some?t; asks t;I guess so,quot; s;If youre not from Kansas, people in Kansas ask you: do you t Kansas? do you t our sky? do you t people in Kansas? Are ; S;You find a ; quot;ELL its just would ; quot; bound to us.quot; quot;Maybe oo muc Im saying?quot; quot;It may be just a temporary aberration t last very long like .quot; quot;But if s t keep s burn to nubs. And ts ; quot;I dont knoill feel tened I mean Im as generous as t man but I still feel empically t our position ered for t; quot;Poets eat up all of experience and t is s; quot;; quot; does ect.quot; quot; before kicked out of USC.quot; quot;d kicked out for?quot; quot;Slugged a dean in a riot, it Amendment t; tim comes in pinstripe. y. quot;tim!quot; Veronica says. quot;s o you?quot; quot;tuart,quot; tim says. quot;Seven ?quot; quot;You look like a neter man.quot; quot;I got somet; tim says. quot;Im president of tfit ting togets a la; quot;But youre not a la; Dore says. quot;Are you?quot; quot;t ; ;lareet corner. ere specializing in mal?practice, its everye t forty-seven percent of all patient-pers s t end to support a successful action. e project a ninety-eig rate of recovery over t; quot;Veronicas been going to treet,quot; Anne says, quot;; quot;You t t; says Veronica. quot;s. . .quot; tim reaco for a notebook. quot;s on being paid in cas; quot;Diddling axes.quot; quot; ; quot;Violation of AMA guidelines on sexual oversig; quot;nam?ese nam.quot; quot;tnam,quot; tim says, quot;re you seeing mind my asking?quot; quot;Just various ty dollars for an office visit.quot; quot;ake you ladies out to lunc; quot;; quot;Blimpies?quot; quot;Youre not going to Blimpies in t suit?quot; quot;Our cas on line as yet.quot; ¨¦s it in olive oil. Meaner. in t¨¦ pan for tes, at time ing a can of cer. o ts it cook for a bit, tents of t¨¦ pan into t cooked Italian sausage. ime and t into boions of grated parmesan. A simple soup. Anne says s. quot;t soup Ive I ed broccoli but it just kind of falls apart in tuff, very tasty. Is it artificially colored?quot; quot;; quot;Its too green.quot; quot;ts Gods o; quot;Youre sure its not Union Carbide.quot; quot;I dont t; quot;tation by inadversion.quot; Simon scratc;tarnation take it,quot; ;if I get your drift.quot; quot;tion of every dimension of expe?rience for tion of female-kind.quot; quot;Rig; Simon says. quot;A big subject.quot; quot;Getting bigger every day,quot; she says, suddenly cheerful. quot;You see a lot of suppression and domination around ; quot;No tup doesnt fit ts so laissez-faire. But if into its deep structure --quot; Sops and begins again. quot;You dont care about any?t go along cooking dinner and fucking us indiscriminately and reading treet Journal. Your vital interests are not involved give a s.quot; quot;; Once cransparent s, notcime alternately embracing and struggling, Simon running s, ;tasy,quot; s;love in tc; quot;Love instead of tc; ;But I like tc; tocks t in mind, been sent ime or t;My mot control me,quot; s;I rollable.quot; ed op of tor and s it as it smuse atop tor, ;Play is s all about,quot; s; taste like?quot; quot;Little bit salty,quot; ongue lav?ing ton, quot;must be t nig your temperament in gen?eral.quot; quot;So s,quot; Anne says. quot;S kick me out, exactly.quot; quot;as ster t; quot;It our.quot; quot;Are you sorry?quot; quot;No.quot; quot;It ; quot;Everybody als somebody to be sorry. Fuck t.quot; quot;Veronica tle t; quot; t; quot;A amp; P. ore. ; quot;Did ; quot;; quot;ts tragic. Is it tragic?quot; quot;Just a detour.quot; ;Frolic and detour, t; quot;But a real poet.quot; quot;S; quot;Do you like ; quot;A little.quot; quot;You came back because you love us more t; quot;ell, I do.quot; A: I t people supposed to mares a year. I , t in hes. Q: thes. A: Not so muc being able to get dressed. In particular, trousers, in dreams I , enormous difficulty bringing trousers up over t on my s and try to put on trousers, try to pull the shoes. . . Q: I often dream t my rifle isnt clean. You can clean it and clean it and t looks dos not clean, its got very little to do clean, its a metapion related to t of ar, your poor place scheme. . . A: Every nigs too muc recourse? teeth. Q: here do you see yourself going from here? In life. A: More of to Dumbo, you knoo be on television at say seven-ty in to c and t o, too. Q: I liked it. A: I liked it. Bizarre, . Q: t I remember is es from t?tle baby tigers and of torks miss a trick -- before ton?isiger and s. t e. A: terrifying. Because it was so well done. Q: I dont to live on a farm, to go back to ts too risky and I dont knoo do. Some damn co knoo do to alleviate t in no ts drive cing up and I ougo be able to fix it by slamming it a feimes I dont kno. I dont knoalk to tuff and I tell myself Im not sup?posed to kno because Im not a farmer. Yet I t to be a farmer or at least be capable of being a farmer. Maybe its atavistic. . . A: Id be perfectly comfortable living in a el. I take t to be te pole. Not necessarily a grand el, a s still stuffy el. Q: Bedford Square. In London. A: Never been to London. Q: here have you been? A: tokyo, Mexico City, Paris, Barcelona, Stock?holm, Palermo, Reykjavik -- Q: Lots of els in those places. A: Stayed in t part. Said to ts look beautiful this morning. Q: S make fun of them. A: I . I lusted after t every one. Q: Not. A: But ab me in ter? Q: ould you like to try some of ttle yellow guys here? SIMON ation, a bed-and-breakfast, a youtel, a staging area, a C-141 ties offered anot one t likely to take. ties to only impatience but a real loat really understand. Veronica told simes. quot;?quot; ;Comma splices,quot; s;Also, every time I e do, tion teac it probably ; Simon found o say anyt banal, instead edged and immediate. Maybe not could be rendered in a 500- notion and four y uff, more or less, and emerged more or less enricrast extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, giving examples of eacen young rinsic and intrinsic motivation. quot;e all t; old t;Yea guys did tnam ; Simon nam ion but could not deny t it ructed by people ern t. quot;But, dummy, its t,quot; ;Your best idea.quot; quot;I respect for education,quot; s;t. Id be just as dreary ; side t s past midnigairs to treet. A man in an old Army field jacket is screaming some?t t. six montionally deep voice and projects ors skill. Simon e in front of tal. quot;C; hal screams. quot;; Simon calls. quot;Kissass mot; quot;; Simon calls again. quot;take t somet; aller t forty, and under t. quot;Up your giggy fuckface,quot; a quieter scream. quot;time for breakfast, ; quot;t; ional tone, and takes the bill. reet, scream?ing quot;Cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts!quot; Simon goes back upstairs. Veronica comes into his room looking very gloomy, quot;e o talk,quot; se dark-blue nig seen before. quot;s tter?quot; quot;Dore. S.quot; quot;In ; quot;S ; quot;I noticed.quot; quot;Sries to from you.quot; quot;Maybe its just temporary.quot; quot;Ive never seen errible books. Books about errible men are and us do; quot;t ster, not ; quot;Dont need your c.quot; quot; do you me to do?quot; quot;talk to ; quot; can I say? I agree stuff and t; quot;ell its not for you to decide, is it? like you say ; quot;Me?quot; quot;Men in general.quot; quot;erical or crazy?quot; quot;Probably you didnt to stir us up. Probably you and too tactful to say it.quot; quot;Are you sure its Dore ; quot;S else do ime?quot; quot;So youre all upset.quot; quot;trut; quot; makes you tuff is trut; quot;ty-five percent of all American alloo talk at dinner parties. t t.quot; quot;; quot;Its in a book.quot; In in line for more riging in line, its unial sty is quilted in kale, beloved of o a female ;ant to get somet; S;Bro, unless you can p better, youre c; No, ts not rigo eacrotters, nothing wrong can be done. . . 18 quot;A; Simon says. quot;Not too bad,quot; says Veronica. quot;Ill ; Ralps a ten on the bar. quot;Me too,quot; says Veronica. quot;Ill go along,quot; Simon says. quot;You tting it on, or ; Ralph asks. quot;Just acquaintances,quot; Veronica says. quot;Mere ac?quaintances.quot; quot;Dont look like mere acquaintances to me,quot; Ralp;I sort of toward eac; quot;ttle muddy,quot; Simon says. t;Into t;. quot;You mean conceptually?quot; Veronica asks. quot;I mean t; quot;I dont care,quot; Ralp;If you tting it on. Im just an old friend. If you tting it on, Im my type, actually. I love s my type. e spent t to?get ears. You remember?quot; quot;Dont remind me. I remember.quot; quot;t; Ralp;Denvers finest.quot; quot;You rying very ; Veronica says. quot;I alry very t me. But you just sat t, all nig I said to myself, Ralp is tactic? Is ts a tactic, ive? I couldnt see an objective. So I decided it ; quot;It ; quot;So I said to myself, o deal ?quot; quot;Booze we already ; quot;Stuff a cold, starve a fever,quot; Ralp;I decided ty-t; quot;I busted up ; quot;So ting tearing up ty-t four oclock in tells me I lessly pedestrian mind. Remember t?quot; quot;I guess I ; quot;I una,quot; Ralp;Nevert me, at time. No.quot; quot;I oo drunk to be as sensitive as I am ; she says. quot;You ty un am I doing in tel room ; quot;I never t of you t of you as kind of a friend.quot; quot;I just boug; Ralp;People end to buy cars t are gold in color.quot; quot;No; Veronica says. quot;Stop it.quot; quot;Back to Denver,quot; Ralp;Denver and my gold Mazda.quot; quot;t; Simon says. quot;t; IN t dream ed .45 randomly in treet. ten t ting on a lounge in a el lobby s and s bare-ced. quot;Ive got to find a s,quot; . tment, o find a s. People ment and banging into cymbals on stands placed find a s. of a closet and asked o be a little quieter. A sober conversation ;tim asked Dore to come to ; s;. to begin o be tary.quot; quot;Its got crasten all over it.quot; quot;S.quot; quot;Like being vice-president of a bag of popcorn.quot; quot;I kno; Anne says, sig;God I e being a secretary. I did it for telling you o do.quot; quot;If you could do ed --quot; quot;Id like to be an independent oil operator. t of t y guys. Great s.quot; quot;ell,quot; Simon says, quot;ts a skill too. You o kno; quot;I er of geology.quot; quot;Maybe law sc; quot;terrible.quot; quot;You dont kno for a fact.quot; quot;Im a total failure.quot; quot;Begin.quot; o get angry, Simon knoe o react. ter all, done little more to stay, feed talk to tending good Cian felloo be mad at somebody, ood t, and even if t till t arting t ill o go somewional Enquirer, BOY PRODUCES 100 YARDS OF thREAD FROM EYE and said, quot; can you do, Simon?quot; Some days ties. Eac any given point t a t a fourty-nine possibilities before h expired. t to s, and approved, in general, of togetory, eco?nomics, building codes. Let t. Veronica liked garage apartments. Per?tend t a black bean soup t tenuator capable of turn?ing crackers into lisping Brits, and end up in Paris on t¨¦. Young men iff pricks and smelled good, by and large, almost as good as babies. Young ed attacks. Simon counted ted. Sara;Do you know w s; so her. quot;?quot; quot;Fallen in love.quot; Simon is astonis;it; quot;t; quot;Good God ts terrible.quot; quot;S nig; quot;O; quot;talk to ; quot;ould s to talk to me about t; quot;I guess not. S srying to get a; quot;I understand t. I understood t a long time ago.quot; quot;Dont be bitter.quot; quot;Simple statement of fact. People get too mucy goes a; quot;Yeater butt out. Not t youve o do ely.quot; quot;ell. Do you ; quot;Daddy youve been asking me t since I een.quot; quot;Its a reflex. Listen, Sara be better if I didnt kno it?quot; quot;I ts you to kno it. t it.quot; quot;Is ; quot; of love. More t; ;Keep me posted,quot; he says. quot;I dropped ays of Being, t.quot; quot;; quot;It ured into ie, mostly.quot; Veronicas trampoline is leaning against t it to see ion bounces a good t. Dore is painting er-egg glazes. Anne is tening to cut off ands poised, a o interfere. quot;Anybody messes s t; Simon senses unrest. A terrible nigen, taking a Scotccelevision. Veronica is out someen-ty Anne comes into trips, and gets into bed h him. quot;Im c; she says. urns omaco stroke ly. A very sculptural , narrohe hipbones flaring. o go back to the doorway. quot;Are you all tired?quot; she asks. quot;Probably.quot; Dore climbs into ts, retaining tank top yle of t. Sakes tfully. quot;Im sad and depressed,quot; s;I feel useless. All I do is sit around and cV.quot; quot; do you to do?quot; quot;Somet I dont kno; quot;Lot of people in tion,quot; Simon says. quot;I dont to be a la to be a to be a musician. does t leave?quot; quot;Be bad. Imagine somet; quot;Like ; quot;I o tell you o imagine?quot; S ;tter?quot; quot;d you say?quot; quot;or. tend to be crude.quot; ruggles around to kiss t;terrible nig; quot;; quot;You guys arent solving your problems. I cant ; over o ttocks. ttercups and butterflies and flying buttresses and butts of malm?sey. quot;Veronica ; she says, coming up for air. quot; kind of a ras; quot;Dark red. Looks like a ain.quot; quot;?quot; quot;Youll see.quot; Saliva is running dohusi?asm. Veronica ; is taking place ; shunder. AFtER ted Simon set up a small office in a barely renovated building on est Broad in treet, sirens, rape, outrage. ners in P UPS a fruitcake or a brace of p to one recov?ering from an illness, ion t to be enjoyed not no later, ing table, a ing on carpenters sa pen. tion ies. ty alto-ceiling reet in ting building, very little lig scoop to be affixed to t fig?ured t t ubing for t scoop ruction augo say about foundations: Pity is become a trade, and generosity a science, t men get rich by ... But ts a little , t ting s tion. to be very good. SIMON t Paradise. On t to t see make it to Paradise? Seems unfair. Great deal of marble about, ices, serra-cotta; Paradise seems to one. Science a o cremate o t into space in a rocket, solving t Laure, for omb sculp?ture. Paradise unearned. It , in t ate or condition vis?ited upon igues for most of t o day, sometimes carrying drunken comrades back to t nigside Stuttgart, in a firemans lift. in meaningless maneuvers ly, ed, t. Simon read Stars amp; Stripes and very good mystery novels by Joried to find buildings by Karl Friedric been lost on Mies. t to listen to them. quot;Ive y-six years practice in standing up. I can do it,quot; Anne says. S pants er and medium-gray Reeboks. Sequila and serribly drunk. quot;I to tell you somet; quot;?quot; quot;You t; quot; makes you t?quot; quot;Your attitude.quot; Simons been reading Audubon Action, quot;Arizona Dam Project Faces New C; quot;s my attitude?quot; quot;I see fatigue and disgust.quot; quot;Sie, ts not true.quot; quot;Dont call me sie.quot; quot;Anne,quot; ;you to sit do; quot;You t brig; quot;Youre as brig.quot; quot;You titude of disdain. Sticks out all over you.quot; quot;Just not so.quot; quot;Veronica t us out.quot; quot;No. Untrue.quot; quot;S; quot;ts ure of Paradise.quot; quot; is it?quot; quot;Knoll, basically.quot; co you see t allorying to --quot; quot;t; son?is. quot;Some angels ; ured. quot;; quot; makes you teral sense?quot; quot;Ive al; quot;Artists like symmetry.quot; quot;.quot; quot;You can get a lot accomplisra. I sa t; quot;But itd be like .quot; . s are bare. quot;If Id spent t of time my mind as I my c, Id be ; s;I mean since teen.quot; quot;Old ; quot;Dont be so snotty. e ; quot;e sexy. tit; quot;You ts ; quot;Could be.quot; Simon positions te plaster egg eig tall in tting room. tc heir names are harry. 19 Q: I sometimes imagine t I am in Pest Control. I e truck e jump suit pocket. I park truck in front of a subscribers neat tract ter of deadly pest-killer from truck, and o t door. C side tanding t;Pest Control,quot; I say. S me, I smile back and move past o to ted kitcer is suspended by a sling from my rig t to spray. I spray alongside tor, alongside tcable. Next, I move to ting for me to finiso tting room and spray discreetly be pieces of furniture, an oak sideboard, a red plusorian coucudy, spraying beers ing ty-five-incelevision. ter bedroom requires just touc bursts in o eigs big acked s and too fold. Maybe tear a properly-made-out receipt from my receipt book and present it to te space and back to me. tinks quite palpably but I knoence in to four s me to ting, pins a silver medal on my c and kisses me on bot Control! Four oclock in ten?ing to one of e Coltrane. quot;t; one says, and ts in to say, quot;Yea a minute.quot; A oody S disturbing t loood. Nos is praising D flat. quot;tC,quot; t says. quot;ItC is a nes just getting started in LA. tting ne; t orotund. quot;Great one,quot; says one of ton Marsalis track is over. quot;A lot of y,quot; says t;I mean all.quot; Simon suddenly remembers putting on ers sook o nursery sc in t on ?ted to foot. quot;Make your toes little,quot; hem. quot;Nec; t;but ty.quot; -germ bubble gum was served At the Maniacs Ball fully for an six -s and jeans, moving around tment. till sleeping. of treet a man in violet running ss is carrying a ies, ttle younger. ts six-ty. to get times tibule, a barely breated blood and blood is all over tile. Simon she man again. No response. tal at tops a resident on to etuck in - pocket. quot;t in good s; tor looks annoyed. quot;Call nine one one.quot; quot;I tter look at ty far gone.quot; itance tor, a small man aco tibule. aking care not to touch him. quot;Call tal. Somet; . quot;Drunk, too.quot; Simon trudges back upstairs and telepal. AND oget tet? if o?get a rate less precipi?tant ter-century advantage, in terms of raddling. u?dents say, kind of old ladies ing a book. tended medi?tation on t;or,quot; or t taken, or taken but not enjoyed, or taken and en?joyed to t, a celebration of quot;orquot; not less fun-some te ters. I not e ter. quot;Good ; I o Veronica, clapping imes to signal y congratulation. quot;t type. . .quot; t in Bulmer, a typeface most eloquent, anorexic Bodoni but speaking nevertoddy as I sit by ts of tequila laced tle gunpo. Ill place my cla manipulation of table. t home. Dore o knoo. I dont kno erday, more or less. You call t tover, a single yelloe tor of life. Yes, s anyt by implication, you implied t ! Ill say, or scream, I al turn out badly, consult t transcript, you to -- Anne quot;ItS t of men. As a group.quot; quot;t us to bloom and flo; quot;trying to keep all ty for a feed individuals. Men.quot; quot;Ive endured it on every side.quot; quot;ies aken glee and satisfaction from ing and scourging me.quot; quot;t I ; quot;tearing me apart ions t ; quot;I tlasses.quot; quot;t is a burden to me.quot; quot;Stick a scre if you mess ; quot;Gotta get t birds nest on t; quot;You can start, in America, a nickel, and pretty soon you ; quot;Ive been busy, sorting buttons, one t; quot;Polisting t of t; quot;A feo c; quot;Used to be able to stay up all nig do t no; quot;asly, bubbling in responses to forms and questionnaires.quot; quot;e c ced t of little green ; quot;Yea one.quot; quot;Guy came up to me on treet, black guy, er for an American citizen? quot; quot;You gave it to ; quot;?quot; quot;Caugive squeeze.quot; quot;Pink alruck me as sordid.quot; quot; ttle spots on ; quot;Burns. From cooking fried c; quot;If men kne; quot;Older people sreated , not muc some.quot; quot;ts really a very fine attitude to.quot; quot;Its o be brigoo old.quot; quot;You can accidentally s your dog. Ive kno.quot; quot;Old men e ; quot;I dreamed about t nig it in Simons room.quot; quot;t trade Center.quot; quot;If t ; quot;From Brooklyn, to oo do is .quot; quot;treet already. e kno; quot;t in tones. e kno; quot;If te you t; quot;No you o s in tomacy-tomac; quot; te your domestic animals, your cats and dogs, and tic animals bite you. Or te otic animals and even?tually somebody bites you. Or your c; quot;Im going to stay off treets.quot; quot;No just s. t.quot; quot; does a skunk look like? Ive never seen one.quot; quot;It looks like a t it kind of tenuated. t; quot;Ive only seen t; quot;Maybe we s c; quot;I tting into a panic s.quot; quot;Let Simon deal ; quot;Do you t; quot;No I dont t I t.quot; quot;If w ; quot; it realistically.quot; quot;o stop introduc?ing o people as my ; quot;ts not unreasonable.quot; quot;One day t be any ; quot;Or ; quot;Just free units cruising t; quot;Someto look foro.quot; quot;Do you really t; quot; about t; quot;Get one and keep it. Keep it for yourself. and teac t; quot;But t kind of qual?ity, t kind of rougy. . .quot; quot;I forgot about boys.quot; quot;Reminds me of tacked on truck, ; quot;; quot; leave ; quot;; quot; t; quot;Its an impossible situation.quot; quot;But I like it.quot; quot;t.quot; quot;Its like t time.quot; quot;But well never see ; quot;ell send postcards.quot; quot;Little satisfaction in t.quot; quot;ell you cant ; quot;Sometter t; quot;t o ions.quot; quot;ell Ive learned to make progress, you o give up somet; quot;s true?quot; quot;It sounds rig includes pain.quot; quot;I ; Simon says. quot;Not a of some ons of o function. Got to t everyt. I dont ts condescending. I s not condescending. Ive dealt augo roll . Stempting it already, s got it rig even bricklayers get trasting brick, vary ttern of retcs. I dont to be condescending. trees egrity, cant go far ree. You to make a building look good, budget rees. A bird in tree is better ts all I mean. t.quot; quot;Simon, I dont to go,quot; Anne says. quot;I dont you to go.quot; quot;But I o.quot; quot;I understand t. But you could be foolis; quot;Youd get tired of me.quot; quot;No. t around and celevision. ts all I ask.quot; quot;ts not true.quot; quot;I ask you, formally, to stay. ill you stay?quot; quot;No.quot; quot;?quot; quot;It .quot; quot;e could enjoy it for a s time. Migwo w; quot;You make it sound like a cancer situation. It be fair to t; quot;o t; SIMON fleo Norto inspect a job on-Salem, a al. truction e good and tle to com?plain of. ration, done by an agreeable nig day. mate . S, s in C t Benning, loved America, spoke seemed to Simon a texas accent. ed a candy store in Frankfurt. talked about pregnancy and delivery, about a danger to taxis. Sances and told to attempt to take over Mexico next. e ed Mexico, she said. Over tlantic on to Kennedy Simon sae floating scruff. ter became agitated at points as fistacked turned o compaction. old alt feel very lucky at t, she was very lucky. quot;I got to go a; Dore says. quot;I got to leave t; quot;I gots to make ma; says Veron?ica. quot;t Zepo me in a dream,quot; Anne says. quot;! Split!quot; quot;time boogies on,quot; Dore says. ts of optimistic gloom. quot; Bye guys,quot; Simon says. the door. Q: Maybe theyll come back. A: No, no. Of course not. hey? Q: Do you to come back? A: I I sleep very well, on balance. Q: ? A: Four or five. Q: Some people like Giacometti. As a sculptor. Al?ts fooliso speak of quot;likingquot; Gia?cometti. Armature igo. about women. A: Yes a razor in his shoe. Q: Do you some of ttle green ones? to be good. A: I t. Q: Feels like Saturday today, I dont know why. . . A: It does feel a bit like Saturday. . . Scan Notes, v4.0: Proofed very carefully, italics intact. In many places, tuation may seem incorrect or missing, but t so blame eitam or Bart me.