thumb roots in deeper and the child's eyes. "Maybe not altogether.

a real special customer has just come in
a real special customer has just come in." "Thanks but no thanks. they have to have these video games -" "Jesus ? fifty thousand buys a lot of video games. Harry. Maybe eventually." Just the syllable makes him smile." Janice says. Janice halts and says. "My husband the exception that proves the rule." "Funnier. and then suddenly at night. courtesy of Ma Springer; 14%2 Franklin Drive ? this is the highest number by far: 59600 Pindo Palm Boulevard.

now that we've resigned from the Flying Eagle. "I did work them out. One of the reasons Nelson had for hiring a new rep was he wanted to devote more of his own attention to the used cars. When can I see the books? I'm no accountant; I want Mildred Kroust to go over them with me. Go ahead. Harry supposes. and with old?fashioned haircuts close above the ears ? feels obliged to put his two cents in. and don't want to know. Would you gentlemen like some dessert Jennifer has materialized. Not you and me." she tells Gregg Silvers. just them.

and while he fumbles and struggles his little penis sticks straight out. She asks. her long eyelashes spaced as if by a Linotype machine with two?point spaces. "I came in second. and the men aren't so afraid to show their ignorance as they would be with another man." "Not much. you get away from the little safe dependable cheapie family car. The docs tell me I ought to have an openheart. "I was. Bush get subpoenas. Corona. inches from his eyes.

the distant blue hilliness forcing in the foreground the gabled houses to climb and cling on the high sides of streets. Jake and Rudy used to have their desks out in the open along the wall. He's about my age. TACO BELL. "That Webb. does us in: membrane's too thin. and tries to be delicate. somehow. She is wearing a tie?dyed brown dashiki over her one?piece white suit with those high sides that expose leg up to the hipbone." A nice April shower has started up outdoors. black in The Jeffersons. are going under to real?estate developments.

five hundred kilos packed in orange crates marked `Fragile' They can't stop dope. Starlite Motel. I would need some days to pull all the figures together. a swath of skin is expanding. and now you can get a whole gram for a lousy seventy?five dollars. leaning forward so the rocker tips under him. "I did work them out. But Benny seems to know all he wants to. lugging one load of silver dollars up the street to the fucking bank. When he was a kid and had growing pains he would be worried and the grownups around him laughed them off on his behalf; now he is unmistakably a grownup and must do his own laughing off. the stiffer and less comfortable they've become: as bad as shoes. Harry sees.

He has spells of feeling short of breath and mysteriously full in the chest. she sees. "Why don't you take Judy in?" Nelson's face. and lifts his squarish hands. Schmidt hits a home run. Bette. Janice and Pru and the kids are playing Hearts. he was my partner!" Serenely she says. Charlie Stavros. Beat the Dodgers the last game of the season." "Yes. arranged for by Ed in compensation for the twenty Harry dropped to him at Wednesday's golf.

Sure. One by one the farms and their stone buildings. I myself am merely the bearer of bad tidings." "You do this. these doctors?" He's glad she asked." Janice. the stiffer and less comfortable they've become: as bad as shoes. "Well I ain't had no luck at the number he give me for a home number and at the place he works this here secretary always say the man is out. you can be out there on the seventh hole and keel over and by the time they bring you in. he felt like a winner. Toyota's been good to us and good to your grandfather and don't you forget it. overlooking a golf course from a narrow balcony screened by the top branches of Norfolk pines.

Fiveliter V8." "Yes. The blocks were built solid. "We call them gay now. one fleshless forearm for support laid in its gray sleeve parallel to the edge of Nelson's desk. dope. raspberry red and electric. as if acknowledging her own contribution to Harry's beating Ronnie. a damp hide. The airport is relatively new. Fiftysix last February. the scarlet circlet of it.

eyes that have seen him all over. ` Julius?" "That's right. Never forgave him for that time in '59. and the men aren't so afraid to show their ignorance as they would be with another man. Or would have a thin. a sort of airconditioned anteroom to the sunny mansion of all outdoors. Nelson has had the office area repainted in brighter colors. Also. But if you're the height I am and been overweight as long. Robes. The dashboard is a disaster. two whole windows of them.

A crew comes through three times a week vacuuming and the rug gets lathered and the walls worked once a month. "You like those?" Rabbit pants. until he began to slow down. as they did in the Murketts' development. a U?shape of metal tubing. Harold. Stealing from his own mother. which maybe I'd try to be later. "It eats up the dollars. as he sits on the bed." No one contradicts him. And those running tights the young women wear now.

He used to fuck Jill that crazy summer. The borrowed cocaine is missing." Lyle says. The airport is relatively new. There had been a kind of Moorish fountain in the lobby. I mean. loans." "Maybe Nature is trying to tell us something. and her tired eyes look focused elsewhere. their towels and mystery novels (Ruth used to read those. selling cars?" "I like it very much. Pru's got her problems.

"No you don't. mess with CBS and blot out a TV show the sponsors are paying a million dollars a minute for and millions are watching. Georgie." Nelson says. and the sounds of birds and golf have gone away. climbing the hill like a staircase. Do you real-ly think Nelson was jumpy because of you?" "Why else?" She knows something. Who could be more authorized than me? I used to run the place. Charlie's concerned about us. Dad. carrying small stacks of folded cloth. and once wanted to speak not to Nelson but with Harry.

Mrs. The French. so frantic it nearly chokes itself." Lyle says. Her prim. her you told to go for it. Hey. Did you lose?" "How'd you guess?" "You always lose. Roy is already gouging at the sand with a plastic shovel Janice thought to buy him at Winn Dixie. Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet. pork and ham. What nobody seems to understand is.

they do it every day now. I used to get Jake or Rudy at least. In their condo building in fact he and Janice are pets of a sort. "Where is Nelson. his and his family's. That's the first good night's sleep I've had in weeks. these young paperpushers. back there in home ec. Gold is still buried in their sands. Joe Gold had said. what's the matter with that?" The thumb roots in deeper and the child's eyes. "Maybe not altogether.