Household Saints
“Inside a crisp manila envelope, which looked as if it should have contained a deed or a will, was a magazine called Wedding Night, a kind of comic book with photos instead of drawings. Joseph glanced at the title, thanked Augie, and slipped the magazine back inside the envelope. But on the afternoon of the ceremony, he rested up before the wedding by reading it from cover to cover a dozen times.
The first shots showed a ’46 Buick, festooned with tin cans and streamers, pulling up to a rambling ...wooden structure marked “Honeymoon Hotel.” The next page belonged to the groom—middle-aged, balding, with a greasy pencil moustache, mugging nervousness at the camera as he signs the hotel register. Then an elevator scene, the groom and the bellhop smirking, with the shy blonde bride half-disappeared into the woodwork; into the room, and a photo of the bride from the back, heading for the bathroom so fast that her train and veil are a white blur. Shots of the husband pacing the room, checking his watch, kneeling outside the bathroom door and talking through the keyhole—until the door opens and there on the very last page is his wife, pouting and licking her glossy lips, a tough, busty blonde in high heels and a sheer black nightie.MoreLess
The first shots showed a ’46 Buick, festooned with tin cans and streamers, pulling up to a rambling ...wooden structure marked “Honeymoon Hotel.” The next page belonged to the groom—middle-aged, balding, with a greasy pencil moustache, mugging nervousness at the camera as he signs the hotel register. Then an elevator scene, the groom and the bellhop smirking, with the shy blonde bride half-disappeared into the woodwork; into the room, and a photo of the bride from the back, heading for the bathroom so fast that her train and veil are a white blur. Shots of the husband pacing the room, checking his watch, kneeling outside the bathroom door and talking through the keyhole—until the door opens and there on the very last page is his wife, pouting and licking her glossy lips, a tough, busty blonde in high heels and a sheer black nightie.MoreLess
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