Birds of America
“After a grisly month-long court proceeding, Bill’s good friend Albert has become single again—and characteristically curatorial: Albert has invited his friends over to his sublet to celebrate New Year’s Eve and watch his nuptial and postnuptial videos, which Albert has hauled down from the bookcase and proffered with ironic wonder and glee. At each of his three weddings, Albert’s elderly mother had videotaped the ceremony, and at the crucial moment in the vows, each time, Albert’s face turns im...pishly from his bride, looks straight into his mother’s camera, and says, “I do. I swear I do.” The divorce proceedings, by contrast, are mute, herky-jerky, and badly lit (“A clerk,” says Albert): there are wan smiles, business suits, the waving of a pen.
At the end, Albert’s guests clap. Bill puts his fingers in his mouth and whistles shrilly (not every man can do this; Bill himself didn’t learn until college, though already that was thirty years ago; three decades of ear-piercing whistling—youth shall not be wasted on the young).MoreLess
At the end, Albert’s guests clap. Bill puts his fingers in his mouth and whistles shrilly (not every man can do this; Bill himself didn’t learn until college, though already that was thirty years ago; three decades of ear-piercing whistling—youth shall not be wasted on the young).MoreLess
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