The Celebrity (2011)
“Gregory Johns was still asleep.
This was due not to sloth but to exhaustion, for he and Abby had talked until five, at which time, finding his mind ridiculously alert, he had been guilty of hypocrisy. “If we’d each shut up for exactly sixty seconds,” he had said, “we’d be dead to the world.” It had worked for Abby; he would have hated to have it succeed for him. He had waited for her breathing to assume a proper tempo, and then had departed for the only unoccupied room in the house—the kitchen—...where he could enjoy the sense, if not the physical fact, of mobility. He had begun to walk happily: six fair paces from door to sink; sharp turn and four short ones from sink to stove; sharp turn and seven good long ones on the hypotenuse of his triangle back to the door—enough to give his thoughts unlimited range.
Variety was missing but he did not care. Scraps of talk between Hat, Abby, and himself scurried across his mind. It had all been an unabashed materialism: What does this mean for us?MoreLess
This was due not to sloth but to exhaustion, for he and Abby had talked until five, at which time, finding his mind ridiculously alert, he had been guilty of hypocrisy. “If we’d each shut up for exactly sixty seconds,” he had said, “we’d be dead to the world.” It had worked for Abby; he would have hated to have it succeed for him. He had waited for her breathing to assume a proper tempo, and then had departed for the only unoccupied room in the house—the kitchen—...where he could enjoy the sense, if not the physical fact, of mobility. He had begun to walk happily: six fair paces from door to sink; sharp turn and four short ones from sink to stove; sharp turn and seven good long ones on the hypotenuse of his triangle back to the door—enough to give his thoughts unlimited range.
Variety was missing but he did not care. Scraps of talk between Hat, Abby, and himself scurried across his mind. It had all been an unabashed materialism: What does this mean for us?MoreLess
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