The Men From the Boys (2010)
The Men From the Boys
“Lloyd’s cleaning up after dinner: takeout Chinese from Hong Lee’s to celebrate the homecoming. Javitz is staying with us for a few days, just to get his strength back. Mr. Tompkins gave him his usual welcome when we came through the door, attacking his pointy cowboy boots as he walked into the living room. “Glad to know some things never change,” Javitz said.
But it feels as if something has. I’ve got the oddest sensation something’s different. “Do you feel it?” I asked Javitz, just a few momen...ts before he lit up his cigarette and headed out to the deck, but he shook his head no, consumed by his habit.
Yet I did, and still do: cold and unsettling. It’s like the time we were broken into, when the thief was so neat about it we didn’t discover we’d been robbed for hours. Still, even in that time there had been a sense that things were off somehow, that they’d been moved and put back the way I’d left them. That’s what lingered in the room: the very act of moving them.MoreLess
But it feels as if something has. I’ve got the oddest sensation something’s different. “Do you feel it?” I asked Javitz, just a few momen...ts before he lit up his cigarette and headed out to the deck, but he shook his head no, consumed by his habit.
Yet I did, and still do: cold and unsettling. It’s like the time we were broken into, when the thief was so neat about it we didn’t discover we’d been robbed for hours. Still, even in that time there had been a sense that things were off somehow, that they’d been moved and put back the way I’d left them. That’s what lingered in the room: the very act of moving them.MoreLess
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