The Anatomy of Violence
“The attack had hardened his belief that charging Richard would draw the man’s attention away from me. I told him the state department could probably use his ideas; meanwhile how about finding the man? He said that was being done without my amateur sleuthing; furthermore if I continued it he’d send me out of town.
Gwen who usually looked on our arguments with the air of an amused spectator, this time took my side, and daddy left the house with his jaw thrust forward and his mind as firm as set c...oncrete. Gwen withdrew to her garden where she uprooted plants and reset them savagely, as though daring them to grow.
I sat down with a copy of An Actor Prepares, but the paragraphs formed solid blocks of gray which my mind refused to penetrate. Acting seemed a game I had once wanted to play. An hour passed like a fly crawling across a dusty window, then the phone rang.
Captain Riemann wasted no time on greetings. “Can you bring me a picture of Eileen?”
“Yes, where?”
“Bring it—you know where I live?”MoreLess
Gwen who usually looked on our arguments with the air of an amused spectator, this time took my side, and daddy left the house with his jaw thrust forward and his mind as firm as set c...oncrete. Gwen withdrew to her garden where she uprooted plants and reset them savagely, as though daring them to grow.
I sat down with a copy of An Actor Prepares, but the paragraphs formed solid blocks of gray which my mind refused to penetrate. Acting seemed a game I had once wanted to play. An hour passed like a fly crawling across a dusty window, then the phone rang.
Captain Riemann wasted no time on greetings. “Can you bring me a picture of Eileen?”
“Yes, where?”
“Bring it—you know where I live?”MoreLess
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