Ratner's Star
“Prizes for design, color, maneuverability, speed of ascent, time in the air. Several kites had fluttered into soft flame, every such event accompanied by sounds of pleasurable regret from below. The burning frameworks remained briefly aloft, no longer parts of flying toys but in the lazy breezes of that perfect night resembling a class of mythical invertebrates determined to burn themselves away rather than return to the porous earth, where they’d earlier shed the silk of transfiguration.
In th...e morning the bulletproof Cadillac headed due east. Billy once again had the back seat to himself. The driver was a man named Kidder. The road was very straight and he barely had to move his hands on the wheel. He was so motionless in fact that Billy was reminded of LoQuadro’s body disrupted by the human glitch. Reverse dissociation.
“We’re not too far from the silos.”
“What silos?”
“You must be a city boy,” Kidder said.
“That’s right.”
“You never find silos in cities. That’s true no matter where you travel in the world.MoreLess
In th...e morning the bulletproof Cadillac headed due east. Billy once again had the back seat to himself. The driver was a man named Kidder. The road was very straight and he barely had to move his hands on the wheel. He was so motionless in fact that Billy was reminded of LoQuadro’s body disrupted by the human glitch. Reverse dissociation.
“We’re not too far from the silos.”
“What silos?”
“You must be a city boy,” Kidder said.
“That’s right.”
“You never find silos in cities. That’s true no matter where you travel in the world.MoreLess
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