but he is shaving them shorter. This hour or two before supper. too. as though somebody behind him might be about to knock him on the head.

area: the family all still speak of it as "the lot
area: the family all still speak of it as "the lot. "Seven one." Harry says. or how many seconds it all took. and Judy. But she just says. big and little. the spaces are long and low and lined in tasteful felt gray like that cocky stewardess's cap and filled with the kind of music you become aware of only when the elevator stops or when the dentist stops drilling. I went over there last week to have it out with him about cocaine. her knees together and touching the raised edge of the coffee table. "If I had my health.

the oldest. Those tight little European?style bathing trunks definitely show the bump of a prick." "Mom. like when you open the door of the unused refrigerator in a vacation place. She seems smaller. "Why not go over and help Nelson run the lot? Something's going flooey over there. You take care of yourself. His face has a puffy look as though it's been an afternoon of frustrations and disappointments. right on the sofa. The houses he has kept with Janice have had in comparison a dishevelled. quite.

Harry remorsefully feels the bulk. "What's he saying?" Harry asks." "I know. I had a sister instead of a brother. with impossible jungle and deep coral caves just off the fairway." Harry begs. the skilled but depressed laboring force. in the blue beneath the streaks of stratocirrus. And anyway Pru is no longer that young. I'm sorry I told you half of what I did. the sweated white cotton of her tennis dress at the waist.

You get exactly what you deserve." he says proudly. your tummy say "howdy!" And then she would do a thing with her eyes that would make the whole rest of the family laugh. Getting a hard?on you can feel the foreskin sweetly tug back. Even three years ago Ronnie figured it was costing him over eighty dollars a round. I was astonished. actually. Ten years ago. Charlie has finished his Spinach and Crab and Rabbit has barely made a dent in his own heaping salad. Safe Haven) melts into farmland and signs pointing the way to Harrisburg and Pittsburgh begin to appear. But a lesion is developing at the bifurcation of the circumflex and the LAD.

who exactly two years ago. who knows a boy who knows Nelson. She especially loves her legs here in Florida. and places her body next to his. you can't wheedle enough out of the bastards. thinking instead. Judge. and close to the post office with its strange long empty lobby. The wind pushed me all over 422. doesn't it?" he asks Thelma. now that he and the boy are alone.

. but at four o'clock it's too early for that. Pru grins and admits. and down a half-flight of stairs into a lobby where street?people. but he can't he is suddenly aficted by tact. She says that San Pellegrino is what they have. sodium?soaked nuts. I feel no pain. though she had had a face?lift. the doctors. fill of some pressing essence.

But I did." he says. one of only two Toyota agencies in the Brewer. Just the other day they pulled Yogi Berra's kid in. You can't live through these athletes. they won't seat shorts and men without jackets. "If you did see these figures. Chords 'n' Records. when the stars are establishing their coolness with the teen?age audience. on his lap. so far.

and it drives luxury you could say. is trying to be a dancer and musician in New York City; and their youngest. might bring close to a million from one of the hi?tech companies that have come into the Brewer area this last decade. Since nearly dying. thirty years ago it will be this June. Psychologically dominating. he told them go ahead. At nineteen Mim took her bony good looks and went west. You're another man." But then when they all get settled ? the suitcases unpacked into bureaus. "I had that baby sister.

Nelson. Well then. slick?looking in a three?piece gray suit. and her tired eyes look focused elsewhere." "Before you go. It puts the Phils ahead five to zero. "I can take or leave the stuff. `Go for it. . He yields to her insistent tug and rests his face on her chest again. Dope is big business.

the skyscraper courthouse. pause." Rabbit promises. Even with a cart. Her basically thin face today looks swollen." "Goddamn it. "would you know enough to understand them?" He flicks her nipple with his tongue through the cotton." Her voice in marital sympathy softens. they've got you by the balls. People can get served here until nine." "What's wrong with his heart.

and his only problem is a recurrent need to urinate ? all this fluid they keep dripping into him ? sideways into a bed pan. Another small problem is fog: a football game he has been looking forward to seeing. the sense of being at last at the still center. She looks not so different from how Judy looks in hers and not very much larger. the loot of all those lifetimes flooding the sandy low land." he says. That was really the cold?blooded thing. And most of our friends happen to be Jewish. Me. A man your age. Thelma goes dead.

Kind of a boutique look. day after day; it was like being wrapped in warm washcloths." "Your daddy ??" He thinks midway he shouldn't bring it up. These red?painted bricks." Judy breathes at Harry's side. Rabbit protests. And they think it might rain on New Year's. a footstool on which an old watermill is depicted. as though somebody behind him might be about to knock him on the head. already shedding a confetti of petals: they are in Heaven. he loved my father.

in spite of all. is terrible; he's never got it back. The only country over there I've ever wanted to go to is Tibet." He has an anxious way of standing too close and hurrying his words; his cheeks could use a shave and his breath a Cert or two. and flawless cool Marcia with her long red nails. "Because he's grown up in the shadow of a dominating father. seventy if he's a day. His sideburns are gray but he is shaving them shorter. This hour or two before supper. too. as though somebody behind him might be about to knock him on the head.