Brass Bed (2012)
“I got up slowly and went over to it, and my head expanded and contracted with a painful rhythm, and my tongue felt dead in my mouth. Sunlight entered the window from the east and crossed the floor in a broad swath.
“Hello,” I said.
“Hello,” Jolly said. “Is that you, Felix?”
I stood for a moment and watched dust particles moving lazily in the slanting shaft of light.
“Yes,” I said.
“I’m very glad you’re home, because I need you quite desperately, and you must come over at once.”
“Must I? Why?”
“...I told you, Felix. I need you.”
“I need you too. I admit now that I need you like the devil, but I am determined nevertheless to survive without you.”
“Oh, Felix, please don’t be contrary. Something terrible has happened, and I don’t know what to do about it, and you simply must come at once.”
“What’s happened?”
“Well, it’s difficult to talk about, but Sid is here, and he seems to be dead.”
I thought about this briefly without any particular feeling because it seemed to me wholly incredible, there being a heroic dimension and dignity to dying that was surely beyond Sid’s attainment.MoreLess
“Hello,” I said.
“Hello,” Jolly said. “Is that you, Felix?”
I stood for a moment and watched dust particles moving lazily in the slanting shaft of light.
“Yes,” I said.
“I’m very glad you’re home, because I need you quite desperately, and you must come over at once.”
“Must I? Why?”
“...I told you, Felix. I need you.”
“I need you too. I admit now that I need you like the devil, but I am determined nevertheless to survive without you.”
“Oh, Felix, please don’t be contrary. Something terrible has happened, and I don’t know what to do about it, and you simply must come at once.”
“What’s happened?”
“Well, it’s difficult to talk about, but Sid is here, and he seems to be dead.”
I thought about this briefly without any particular feeling because it seemed to me wholly incredible, there being a heroic dimension and dignity to dying that was surely beyond Sid’s attainment.MoreLess
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