Keeping Bad Company
“1 kept thinking about Merv, his bashed-up motor and Albie and all the rest of it. I had a bruise just below my left shoulder blade from my encounter with the bar and a personal debt to settle with Merv over that. It spurred my resolve but didn’t help me get my ideas in order. There was another problem. I’d been right to worry about that windowless little bedroom beneath the pavement. Try as I might, I couldn’t relax in it. It was unnatural and there was no way I could come to terms with it. The... air was stifling even though I’d left the door open. I also kept the door open because otherwise I was sealed in. I tossed and turned as I stared into the darkness and juggled the oddly assorted scraps of information at my disposal. Like the kaleidoscope I’d had as a kid, each time I tapped my assembled facts, they reformed to make a different picture. The only thing the pictures had in common was that they were all lurid, all tangled and all vulnerable. There was no scenario that was simple, logical and unshakable.MoreLess
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