Basket Case
“'Mr. Tagger, would you mind telling the court why you broke into the victim's house and stole a tampon?'" Rick Tarkington is my age but he looks ten years younger. The irony is glaring and nettlesome. Here's a fellow immersed full-time in the ghastliest details of human malefaction, yet he shows no trace of being haunted by cosmic questions or mortal fears. He is cynical to the core, yet happy as a clam.
In the last thirty minutes I've told Tarkington almost everything about the Jimmy Stoma... story, spilling it as breathlessly as I did to Emma. I even brought a small boom box and played "Shipwrecked Heart," which Tarkington said reminded him of early Buffett. I had hoped it would work in my favor that the prosecutor is a rock 'n' roller. On the wall behind his desk is a photo of the Rolling Stones taken backstage at the Orange Bowl. The picture is signed: "To R.T., Thanks for not searching my dressing room. Keith." "I came here," I say to Tarkington, "because I need direction." "That you do." He's reclining at a precarious cant, the worn heels of his boots propped on his desk.MoreLess
In the last thirty minutes I've told Tarkington almost everything about the Jimmy Stoma... story, spilling it as breathlessly as I did to Emma. I even brought a small boom box and played "Shipwrecked Heart," which Tarkington said reminded him of early Buffett. I had hoped it would work in my favor that the prosecutor is a rock 'n' roller. On the wall behind his desk is a photo of the Rolling Stones taken backstage at the Orange Bowl. The picture is signed: "To R.T., Thanks for not searching my dressing room. Keith." "I came here," I say to Tarkington, "because I need direction." "That you do." He's reclining at a precarious cant, the worn heels of his boots propped on his desk.MoreLess
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