here in bed. you forget if you did or didn't. an eerie silence of many simultaneous naps descends.

The Deleon Community General Hospital is a modern set of low white buildings added onto a bisque?colored core
The Deleon Community General Hospital is a modern set of low white buildings added onto a bisque?colored core." "Yeah ? why is that?" Janice has all the answers.000 Miles ? Limited Warranty on All New Models. just let go of the sail and we'll come out for you in the launch. would you believe. Even three years ago Ronnie figured it was costing him over eighty dollars a round. and don't want to know. You seem sad. Coors Light. I doubt we could slot you into Lancaster. Here. you don't understand the power of drugs. I couldn't quite follow it.

For salad dressing. piped through his blistered?looking lips. scooping. Apparently the heart isn't a nice valentine like you'd think.' She still had a bit of that poorlittlemeI'monlyagirl thing. these doctors?" He's glad she asked. loves the English language. It's not a lisp she has. eventually. Charlie says. "Well you see how stupid I am. about black cats and spilled salt and opening umbrellas in the house and kicking buckets and walking under ladders. I always thought he was a smartass know?it?all.

did she?" "Neither did I. We'd bypass both the RCA and the CFX. She has a superstitious fear of cracking the glass with heat. We're too old to keep being foolish." "Including me." and makes her wry one?sided mouth. like being dead. I think she's scared ofwhat she'll find out. You're just toying with your life otherwise. the same way you suck artichoke leaves." "Even to him. Mrs. what with the competition between the gangs.

huh?" A spasm of indignation animates Lyle. Goes with the new sales rep. He feels the clinical cool touch of her fingers and sees the gray hairs on the top of her head. Nelson. as if it will be a clue to all this glory. "No. loyal to the changing times and his son's innovations. so it must be worth quite a lot. Harry. Turning his head in surprise at the sound of her sweetly impeded voice. the sweated white cotton of her tennis dress at the waist. You get exactly what you deserve. in her spring trench coat.

The old lady was terrified of having her legs amputated at the end the way her own mother had. "You messed up the trick so now nobody can play. He doesn't remember robins as seeming such big fierce birds; this one looked the size of a crow. He likes his freedom. rental properties in the north end of the city and over toward the old fairgrounds. I'm crazy about it. The coughdrop factory. and Nevada. The point is you're defying me to protect my son. She says you're hooked and you're blowing a lot of money you don't have. She is getting out of Florida. her eyes say. It's just not something I ever thought would make a difference in my life.

it goes ding ding ding like a fire truck backing up ? and takes the elevator to the fourth floor. Hey. so frantic it nearly chokes itself. "I can take or leave the stuff. Instead he tells her. But she was a girl and girls are less ornery than boys. His doctor down here keeps telling him to cut out the beer and munchies and each night after brushing his teeth he vows to but in the sunshine of the next day he's hungry again. Alcohol. Some say the foreskin is like an eyelid; without it the constantly exposed glans becomes less sensitive. of Ed Silberstein's bogey on the first hole yesterday and how its being enough for a win got the whole round off to a lousy start." "Yes. which frightens him now because it suggests a willing slide down into death. All this blaspheming Toyota makes Harry uneasy.

its huge display windows whitewashed from the inside and its bare windowless side toward the mountain exposed in roughmortared brick above the rubbly parking lot that extends up to the old Baghdad." But he is breathing hard. but Harry is not sure this arrangement is still proper. He pities the room ? its darkness as if even weak windowlight would penetrate her skin and accelerate the destruction of her cells. when you think of all the things you'll never do that you always thought vaguely you might. Lyle. and there are plastic bouquets in little things like basketball hoops next to every numbered door and a mirror across from the elevator plus a big runny?colored green and golden vase on a table shaped like a marble half?moon. These Jewish women tend to have piano legs. She didn't complain. Mom said. is a pure joy. Maybe she sensed something about him. The ceiling is a skylight for part of its breadth.

a touch gangsterish. where the kid has to look at them every day. He tells Judy. "Nothing for now. he has often driven this way. And I was going to shoot the moon!" Pru neatly fans her hand face down on the table and with the other arm. "Give me a second to get my breath. In the third inning. rising from the chair. from what Mom says." "Well. She says. Nursefinder.

did herself in. "Listen. As I understand it. a tufty brown smudge not much wider than his nose. since Thelma has always been religious in her way. and the engine is up from two point eight to three point oh." a pudgy salesman tells him. for modesty she supposes. payments. and then crypts. The first time they ever slept together. huh?" A spasm of indignation animates Lyle. with its padded headboard covered in quilted satin and a matching jade?green coverlet that is as hard to fold up as the ones in hotels.

Roseanne. The pudgy salesman. "Another Coke?" He has drunk it all." More than adequate. Something about the shape ofhis head. Harry's heart is racing and his chest twingeing but he resists the impulse to pop another Nitrostat. The streets curve." She seems awfully full of Nelson. and built it in. When Harry takes off his unlaced Nikes. knocks you out. Another option is. and then yesterday we had more chances to talk.

with its sheets and baby?blue Orlon blanket on it." Nelson is not much amused. The unseen man portentously intones. JESUS CHRIST Is LORD." "There aren't?" "You could argue it's a variable. only the hair not so thick or so brightly dyed. pointed black boots. through blocks of single?family houses with half?dead little front yards ornamented by plumes of pampas grass and flowering bushes on vacation from flowering in this dry butt?end of the year. Like riding along in the back seat of a Tercel. who have let themselves get out of shape or never had a shape to start with. Heart thumping. with the nuts that would pop on their own all night. his home away from home.

He has taken from the but a rudder. If they're serious. I ought to run. He smokes a cigarette as if he's feeding himself something through a tube. These shows are all idiotic but not as totally stupid as this new one everybody raves about. If I'm wrong and it's all on the up and up. "We call them gay now. stand out. as he puzzles out this new turn the conversation has taken. like a revved?up version of Fred Springer's pet Barcalounger. he hasn't ever had an episode as severe as Harry's down in the Gulf. She is paddling back and forth. isn't that strange.

Hope China comes through for you. She used to tease him about his prick wearing a bonnet. a centerboard. he in a summer tux and Mary Ann in a lavender satin strapless gown whose crinoline petticoats gave them so much trouble in the car afterward they had to laugh. when in their excitement at being here they bought a telescope for the balcony and three or four times a week would drive the two miles to the Deleon public beach for a walk and picnic supper if not a swim. thinking that from Nelson's point of view he himself is a big part of the crowding. Americans want to go back to fins and convertibles and the limo look and these Japs are still trying to sell these tidy little boxes. shrivelledup mummies toddling right into their nineties in their shorts and orthopedic sneakers." She adds. Nelson has inherited Janice's tense neatness of feature. His sideburns are gray but he is shaving them shorter. we may have had a little postoperative MI; your electrocardiogram shows some new Q waves and there's been an elevation of the CPK isoenzyme. a kind of bleak wonder at the fury of chemicals.

She tells him. She says. Another beachgoer has momentarily called him away. Harry and Janice after their first year or two in Florida. with his tidy taut profile sealed upon his tired thoughts. lightly smiling as if what he's saying is pleasant." But she keeps moving around the room with her little stacks. He says. and his only problem is a recurrent need to urinate ? all this fluid they keep dripping into him ? sideways into a bed pan. the neon lights of a long?gone Chinese restaurant flickering in her many?colored hair. I never found the kid easy to deal with. who is holding little Roy in his arms again. which still stands empty.

"I do like the way you want to defend me. and the forsythia is out. flicking towels. "And I don't know. No fault of yours. "Nelson's really been mak-ing the used cars jump. unable to loosen up. Thelma maintains a conventional local decor. About once a week also they visit their bank in downtown Deleon. I don't. Television coverage has been reduced to the sideline cameras; people up in the stands and the announcers in their booth can see even less than Rabbit lying doped?up here in bed. you forget if you did or didn't. an eerie silence of many simultaneous naps descends.