““I wanted to talk to you in confidence,” said Sam. “In case you haven’t noticed, Kris has no sense of humor. That’s no criticism. It’s praise. She doesn’t have a dark side. You have to have a decadent streak to look at things our way—I mean, you and me.”“Speak for yourself,” said Roy. It was not that he disagreed, but rather that he disliked being included in someone else’s self-characterization, even that of his best friend.Sam elevated his head with an elbow hooked behind the pillows. It look...ed uncomfortable. “I’ve been on the phone with Ray and Sy.” Ray Walser was his accountant; he shared Seymour Alt with Roy. “I’m thinking about Chapter Thirteen.”“Christ sake.”“How about that?” Sam snorted and rolled back, staring at the ceiling. “My wife’s a bank official, and I’m about to go into bankruptcy.”“That might affect her career, wouldn’t it?”“Ha! What would it do to mine?”Did you ever have one, you selfish asshole? was not said aloud by Roy, and not even, exactly, thought; it was as if muttered by a passing stranger.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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