The Alpine Quilt
“Trying to remember where I’d heard Tony Knuler’s name was driving me nuts. By midnight, I turned on the bedside lamp, picked up a book on the Plantagenets, and attempted to read myself to sleep.
It wasn’t working. The Plantagenets, especially Henry II and his consort, Eleanor of Acquitaine, were fascinating. I thought about the movie The Lion in Winter, with Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn as the royal couple. In a very small role, Anthony Hopkins had played the king’s quavering son and hei...r.
Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Knuler. Tony Knuler. He was the guy who’d stolen the phone book from the Alpine Falls Motel. What the heck did he want with me?
I was too tired to figure it out. At last, I went to sleep, and dreamed not of strangers, but of Vida, wearing a cloche hat pulled down over her eyes and receding into a misty November morning.
There was fog when I woke up at seven. Dawn had barely broken with a murky gray light in the east. The dampness seeped through the evergreens in my backyard and settled just above the ground.MoreLess
It wasn’t working. The Plantagenets, especially Henry II and his consort, Eleanor of Acquitaine, were fascinating. I thought about the movie The Lion in Winter, with Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn as the royal couple. In a very small role, Anthony Hopkins had played the king’s quavering son and hei...r.
Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Knuler. Tony Knuler. He was the guy who’d stolen the phone book from the Alpine Falls Motel. What the heck did he want with me?
I was too tired to figure it out. At last, I went to sleep, and dreamed not of strangers, but of Vida, wearing a cloche hat pulled down over her eyes and receding into a misty November morning.
There was fog when I woke up at seven. Dawn had barely broken with a murky gray light in the east. The dampness seeped through the evergreens in my backyard and settled just above the ground.MoreLess
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