Nighthawk Blues (2009)
“He walked into the ward carrying a cup of melting cherry vanilla ice cream, which he had gone to some trouble to get at ten A.M. The first thing he noticed was the empty bed.
For a moment he experienced panic. Tears started to form. He looked wildly to right and left, as the grizzled old men stared at him, and a nurse, matter-of-factly emptying a bedpan, eyed him with cool contempt. Then he thought, no, Hawk couldn’t be dead, Hawk wouldn’t give his enemies the satisfaction, and, armed with this... momentary reassurance, he asked the nurse if she knew where Mr. Jefferson was. Perhaps he had been taken somewhere for tests? She was a sullen-looking black girl with hair fanned out in a dark aureole. Hawk probably would have joked with her, made fun of her hair, coaxed a smile from her, sung her a song. She said she didn’t know anything about any Mr. Jefferson, she was just on duty herself, go ask the floor supervisor at the nurses’ station. He did that, and she knew just as little.
He was becoming increasingly concerned and, perhaps to mask his concern to himself, increasingly indignant.MoreLess
For a moment he experienced panic. Tears started to form. He looked wildly to right and left, as the grizzled old men stared at him, and a nurse, matter-of-factly emptying a bedpan, eyed him with cool contempt. Then he thought, no, Hawk couldn’t be dead, Hawk wouldn’t give his enemies the satisfaction, and, armed with this... momentary reassurance, he asked the nurse if she knew where Mr. Jefferson was. Perhaps he had been taken somewhere for tests? She was a sullen-looking black girl with hair fanned out in a dark aureole. Hawk probably would have joked with her, made fun of her hair, coaxed a smile from her, sung her a song. She said she didn’t know anything about any Mr. Jefferson, she was just on duty herself, go ask the floor supervisor at the nurses’ station. He did that, and she knew just as little.
He was becoming increasingly concerned and, perhaps to mask his concern to himself, increasingly indignant.MoreLess
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