Count Geiger's Blues

Authors: Michael Bishop

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“Eschew violence, disdain all nonessential showboating, champion the True and the Beautiful. Well, it wasn’t only street crime, pokeweed addiction, and various ill-publicized white-collar atrocities that plagued Salonika. It was also self-destructive eating habits, poor hygiene, Neanderthal racial and sexual attitudes, and execrable public taste, broadly speaking, in all those aesthetic areas under the purview of his Fine Arts editorship.“So what’re you gonna do first?” The Mick asked.“Visit Fir...st Stringers,” Xavier said.“But you hate the scuzzy vittles they push there.”“Exactly.”On a busy Saturday afternoon, costumed as Count Geiger but feeling as elegantly distinguishable from his brummagem impersonators as the real Santa Claus would be from a department-store brigade of shabby “helpers,” Xavier strolled alone to the split-level fast-food factory called First Stringers. All stained tile and murky chrome, it occupied a vast asphalt lot across the street from Oconee Tech, an urban university renowned for producing “agrarian engineers”MoreLess Read More Read Less