The Girls With Games of Blood
“The bell connected to the pressure hose pinged twice as Zginski parked at the gas pumps. He revved the car’s engine several times, luxuriating in both the sound and the rumble that traveled through him. Of all this era’s unexpected delights, the evolution of the automobile was the most exquisite. It almost made the sixty years he’d spent in hellish limbo worth it. Almost.
The night he’d first encountered “Eleanor,” in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds, had been unusual for a couple of reasons. It wa...s the first time he and Fauvette had attended a cinema since they’d impulsively viewed Blacula and Vanishing Point some weeks earlier. It was also the first time he’d experienced an institution known as a “drive-in,” where cinemas — no, he corrected himself, they were now called movies, a corruption of the term motion picture—were publically displayed on a common screen before a group of people in parked vehicles. As they drove the truck into the fenced-off exhibition area, they passed a flatbed trailer with a wrecked car on it, and a sign that said, “Meet Eleanor, star of Gone in 60 Seconds.”MoreLess
The night he’d first encountered “Eleanor,” in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds, had been unusual for a couple of reasons. It wa...s the first time he and Fauvette had attended a cinema since they’d impulsively viewed Blacula and Vanishing Point some weeks earlier. It was also the first time he’d experienced an institution known as a “drive-in,” where cinemas — no, he corrected himself, they were now called movies, a corruption of the term motion picture—were publically displayed on a common screen before a group of people in parked vehicles. As they drove the truck into the fenced-off exhibition area, they passed a flatbed trailer with a wrecked car on it, and a sign that said, “Meet Eleanor, star of Gone in 60 Seconds.”MoreLess
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