Canvas Coffin (2011)
“Too much had happened this past week. I felt crowded and edgy. Tomorrow was Sunday, and the scribes would be here, watching me work.
Why couldn’t Sally and I get along? Why did we have to scratch at each other all the time? From the direction of the living-room, I heard Tony laugh.
Tony could always laugh, broke as he was. Maybe being broke is one of the requirements for laughter. And knowing you’re good, knowing there isn’t a man in your division you couldn’t beat if you wanted to. And then no...t particularly wanting to.
I wondered how many deals Tony had made. And Charley? Charley had a rep as an honest fighter, but that Giani farce was too much to swallow.
I thought of Max, who’d been a happy man the past few years and was now getting more irritable by the minute. And Jest, with his soft, quiet poise. I thought of the soul-sick Ruth Gonzales, and I thought of Brenda Vane.
How many horizontal encounters had she had in that big bed with the maroon sheets? And in other beds and couches and davenports and parked cars and dark fields?MoreLess
Why couldn’t Sally and I get along? Why did we have to scratch at each other all the time? From the direction of the living-room, I heard Tony laugh.
Tony could always laugh, broke as he was. Maybe being broke is one of the requirements for laughter. And knowing you’re good, knowing there isn’t a man in your division you couldn’t beat if you wanted to. And then no...t particularly wanting to.
I wondered how many deals Tony had made. And Charley? Charley had a rep as an honest fighter, but that Giani farce was too much to swallow.
I thought of Max, who’d been a happy man the past few years and was now getting more irritable by the minute. And Jest, with his soft, quiet poise. I thought of the soul-sick Ruth Gonzales, and I thought of Brenda Vane.
How many horizontal encounters had she had in that big bed with the maroon sheets? And in other beds and couches and davenports and parked cars and dark fields?MoreLess
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