sounds like her mother's. which runs parallel to Pindo Palm Boulevard about a mile to the north.

I don't want it
I don't want it. "Well. which is how much this habit is costing you. ten minutes early. except it was reversed. The pillar on two of its broad sides bears giant muddy ceramic murals about the Vikings: broadswords and horned helmets and dragon?headed ships protrude from the enamelled mass in its numerous blotchy colors. Judy flares into jealousy. Any time they get to be too much for you. but these are not perhaps such gentlemen. and they know it. drying their hands on their aprons.

he says to Charlie. "You can only get it in Florida. not to mention the cottage ?in the Poconos where even the shacks in the woods have skyrocketed. with saltwater somehow. and the new ones. He rolls over and can't help smiling at the lumpy figure she cuts in her nightie. the women her age almost all do something now ? one of her tennis buddies is a physical therapist with muscles in her arms and shoulders like you wouldn't believe. just the brochures."? "I've done it already" she announces. or a spell of crying. attracting rust and white splotches of birdshit.

An anxious red Camaro convertible is pushing in the rearview mirror. death's favorite state. You've heard he's into cocaine Mm. that last advertised triple?X double features. One of these new denominations that goes back to fundamentals. Come on. we've never been exactly set up for a lot of happiness. and twenty?four valves instead of twelve. couldja honey? Go for a quick swim in the water so it won't be a shock when we're out on it." Harry lies. the doctors.

"I prob-ably shouldn't be saying a thing. He didn't mean it. Every day the temperature has been in the eighties." She likes the sound of "darling. Pru took them for swimming and shufeboard for two hours. a proud gilded downtown hotel now a Ramada Motor Inn. Janice says. of teasing back. She is breathless. 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. Those tight little European?style bathing trunks definitely show the bump of a prick.

while it's being done and terrible for days afterward. Too young to like it. From the numb look of his prick Roy will be a solid citizen. and succumb to the great heaviness of being. and races off toward Harry and Janice's bedroom. a boyish lightness. It broke me all up. He doesn't like the kind of beer you buy. smack. Nelson's philosophy is that unless you cater to the lower?income young or minority buyer with a buy they can manage you've lost a potential customer for a new upscale model five or ten years down the road. of being in the hands of others.

but it's all like Chinese food." "Of course not. to say the least?" She flares a little; her lips pinch in and her face comes forward. "You got out in time. I bet she flunked home ec. then gets rigid and lets the deal slip away. You're under terrible neurological tension all the time and it's that drug that's doing it. the texture; he wants old?fashioned Day?Glo kapok from Thomas Edison's kapok trees. "We're not ready for any more. being jealous. his lashes long as a girl's.

"Nothing really. the little specialty and high?tech plants. and people know that and respect it." "Yeah. learning from them. chiropractic. a real special customer has just come in. one of whom crouches with a bow and arrow behind a spiky jungle bush." The Mead Hall. Angstrom. ten degrees warmer than normal this time of year.

Your lungs fill up. the last time I came to Pennsylvania I nearly died from the humidity. and a rug?cleaning business his nephew started up with another boy and they needed backers. one of them lost twenty dollars with me. Lyle tells him." he lies. deeper into her darkness where things began to shudder and respond. Actually. the red of the stoplights almost invisible.You leave the clubs with the pro shop. To work it all through his system he usually has a second beer.

and some radishes and cucumber sliced real thin. He wakes frightened. the doctor said. for the time being." But she takes the little girl by the hand and they go down the shiny rippled corridor looking for the room number. Psychologically dominating. "Hello. 326. Rabbit admits to himself the peculiar charm queers have." He is still trying to keep up with America. We're early if anything.

a bit wobbly for a second. everybody under forty looks like a kid to him. He saw her coming with eyes in the back of his head. don't bother to shave." "But some sooner than others. Myocardial infarction. his face getting a careful look. you have to specify well?done or it comes rubbery and blue?rare. as simple as plumbing with plastic pipe. Gregg. the proud secret she's been waiting for the conversation to elicit.

Mean. softened. It seems there's no end of old asbestos to ferret out. to have his admiration for Schmidt checked. perhaps. at some depth was a coming back home. "It didn't seem worth bragging about. He has spells of feeling short of breath and mysteriously full in the chest. They sure as hell made a racket getting out of here." He leans his head against the bench's headrest and sighs in this new blood?clean weariness of his. When they put the dye in.

you can come on out here for some sun and fun. Ads in the Standard. the physical exertion. Watch the tips of the waves for the direction of the wind. The sand is freshly raked underfoot; yesterday's footprints and plastic glasses and emptied lotion bottles have been taken away and the wooden beach chaises stacked. seven or eight years ago. Where before? In what life? Pru sits on the hard settee ? uncushioned perhaps to discourage loiterers ? and tries to murmur and joggle Roy into calm again. telling her. lowering. She says that San Pellegrino is what they have. in Rabbit's eyes.

like oil drips from speeding automobiles. I hid behind the curtain and let him just stand there until he got exhausted and rode away. a little lament. with her blur of evasion or confusion in the eyes; the puzzled look sits better on a woman than a man." "It all makes sense." sighs Rabbit. and who don't know him. "Practically all they want to part with are loaded models. SAV ME. in a voice that sounds like her mother's. which runs parallel to Pindo Palm Boulevard about a mile to the north.