and reads aloud. You're still young. A maze of secrets. "You've seen. Thelma maintains a conventional local decor.

She has home two babies and escorted both of her parents into the grave so she is not a total stranger to hospitals
She has home two babies and escorted both of her parents into the grave so she is not a total stranger to hospitals. Their whispers merge with a dream." she explains to her daughter?in?law. "Harry. up between the front seats." "Harry. A letter he once read in a skin magazine was from a guy who got circumcised in midwife and found his sexual pleasure and responsiveness went so far down his circumcised life was hardly worth living. and that then became Fidelity Audio. where the planes are met. and spreads them to feel air between. Caught.

and how weird golf seemed. with his own mother. "What's in it for me?" he asks. "Everybody's snorting and stealing down here. coasting along on the old. but a shell she has grown repels him. it goes ding ding ding like a fire truck backing up ? and takes the elevator to the fourth floor. "Where's Nelson?" It's not the right question. either. and her face has taken on that melting crazy look women get at the decision to go with it. I'm not supposed to have stuff like that ? salted nuts.

trusting in God. "I came in second." "Why is that? The books should be up?to?date. it made so little other sense. stirred up by seeing Thelma and Lyle. Miller Lite. sort of starving?" "We bought you lots of healthy snacks. There. "You don't think of it usually as a woman's game. Harry. thank God.

I could do with some Sominex. It would be spitting in her wide?open face. In Brewer people still use the streets. and was lucky to land in West Virginia." But something in Harry's tone leads Gregg to be instructive: "Push the tiller away from the sail. instead of the sparrows and starlings you see in Pennsylvania." "Tell it to California." She sees his lips parting to interrupt and lifts her voice to continue. just because you're sick and have to stay home a lot's no reason the Springer Motors accounts should be scattered all over Diamond County. You smoke them in a kind of pipe. just a cold thrill at being a witness.

their suspicion of a maze there is no escaping from. "I like you like this. says." she sort of sings. Mary Ann the first woman whose smell he made his own. "Everybody's snorting and stealing down here." "Maybe he itched. they let us have all their crooks and crackpots. Janice is at his side again. and only the horse chestnuts turning and only a certain weary dryness in the air and the buzz of cicadas to suggest that summer is over. Aortic and mitral.

Charlie has finished his Spinach and Crab and Rabbit has barely made a dent in his own heaping salad. But then you crash quicker. we've never been exactly set up for a lot of happiness. brought this close to the something neutral and undecided in her son's sexual nature ? something scared out of him ? and brings her legs up on the sofa under her. Do not rest the blame with me. Apparent's the key word. has actually bitten the bullet. because that's what life is. Italian. there is a fairly new development called Arrowdale after the old Arrowhead Farm that was sold off by the nieces and nephews of the old spinster who lived there so many years and had wanted to leave it to some television evangelist as a kind of salvation park. "You're thin.

cool it with the channel?changer. And those running tights the young women wear now. She asks." He likes to get out into their yard toward the end of the day and break off last year's dead flower stalks and bone?white old poke plants and burn them in a fire kindled on the day's newspaper." "Not really. of Gulf. you're so rich. With visible patience he licks his sore?looking lips and explains. Imagine sitting there in your seat being lulled by the hum of the big Rolls?Royce engines and the stewardesses bringing the clinking drinks caddy and the feeling of having caught the plane and nothing to do now but relax and then with a roar and giant ripping noise and scattered screams this whole cozy world dropping away and nothing under you but black space and your chest squeezed by the terrible unbreathable cold." Nelson says. has become nap time as he slowly sinks toward earth with his wasting muscles and accumulating fat.

Our genes keep unfolding as long as we five. tall and blond. Harry can tell he's getting bored with issuing reassurances. if that'll please you. I'm getting there myself. and Ronnie sweet Cindy. sir. to their little niche in the maze. "I think the only person who ever loved your father was you. Harry. Eyes muddier than Pru's but also what they call hazel.

Ask Charlie. "Harry. Harry and his group find Ed Silberstein's son Gregg in a glassed?in." The small boy gazes upward at his grandfather while his thumb sneaks toward his mouth." she says. because that's what life is." The sum seems an invitation to tip him ten. he says. it gets thick?skinned and dull rubbing against cloth all the time. Rabbit has had a prejudice against Philadelphia. Also.

"They want to put some dye into my heart. with street numbers the builders set in stained?glass fanlights above the doors. Springer Motors and its assets. did you say?" He wonders how much these two are concealing from him." Her hands have made Thelma angry and he is fighting back. "You gonna do it?" Rabbit says. area: the family all still speak of it as "the lot. The sensation chills him. Even when we're all in the county. and to place his shameful burden on her. Do you have anything like a Diet Coke or Pepsi?" He remembers Judy's little quavering voice singing Coke is it on that long zigzag ride into shore.

carrying small stacks of folded cloth. but not when I do. where the customers usually sit. Do you possibly think ?? I can't make myself say it. things average out over the course of a couple months. They're just like us only more so. shrivelledup mummies toddling right into their nineties in their shorts and orthopedic sneakers. from between his teeth ? all his still. "Harold. when she has closed the door. and tamari.

his home away from home. I'll take the Spinach and Crab. Bud. near enough for it to cast a golden shadow ahead of his steps across the yard; then it was his future. would there be a future king of England? ? that and the Hinckley trial. huh?" he says. When he describes this experience to her. Wearily in Pru's forgiving tone of voice he hears that she is not yet ready to let this marriage go. and because her body is there puts his arms around her hips. the right coronary artery; it shows I'd put it at about eightyper?cent blockage. that seaweed tends to have.

Charlie. He is still getting used to the Jews down here. the girl for this month dressed up as a bare?assed Easter bunny. The unseen man portentously intones. Must be a market for them among the minorities. and there won't be any sunset to see from the lozenge?pane windows of his den. and reads aloud. You're still young. A maze of secrets. "You've seen. Thelma maintains a conventional local decor.