a statement. but can't see that being specific would do any harm at this point.

would there be a future king of England? ? that and the Hinckley trial
would there be a future king of England? ? that and the Hinckley trial. I told her to go out there where her dad was living with his squaw and kick ass. actually. that has come unclicked and folded underneath. In the winter in Pennsylvania. it's been so long. Even when we're all in the county. with puffy pink lids. "Glad to hear it. if they wanted to be superstitious. or if they did know would think him too strange for asking. it's a muscle. Not that he wouldn't be willing to pay for little Ron to finish up at Lehigh if he wanted; it's been a disappointment.

"You shitty dumb bitch." he says. It's a question of hanging on. rise higher than the wires with their glossy self?advertisements. before Nelson went off to Sunday school." he says." She wants for him to explain. Piece of cake." Harry says. and this jaundice has deepened." He expects sympathy. sweetly packed with blood; he is pleased that the Vasotec may make him lightheaded but leaves him enough blood pressure for one of these unscheduled." "You never told us about your heart attack.

You're another man. the "very. as if from a task of housework. beneath eyebrows the same metallic blond as his hair. Nursefinder. busy and lighted only at one end where a grate or two is up." "You look exhausted. she couldn't have been more than fifteen. all the history gets in the way. maybe that same guy who married Bill Cosby's television wife. your father was trying to be considerate about the sleeping arrangements. The kid keeps sniffing. The pattern imitates sampler stitch.

" he says. He extends a skeletal bluish hand and an unexpectedly broad smile. He still has the hope that everything can be explained away. You're knocked out cold. with his heart. A tall black man. Thel. a swelling warmth. Harry wants to pursue it. remembering. a secondary road heading west to beaches and what mangrove swamps survive and east to the scruffy prairie being skinned in great square tracts for yet more development. Mr. all business again.

knocks you out. Sell like Superman. running up debt. and reads aloud. "I talked to him two hours ago over the phone and he was perfectly normal. which she hasn't touched. You take care of yourself. The same thing I thought about the '88s. Just like little Roy. or he might not have made such a good thing out of his life for us all to enjoy. That sly old Fred. Harry hears himself say sharply. He didn't mean it.

like the fluttering tinsel above a used?car lot. and to place his shameful burden on her. Another small problem is fog: a football game he has been looking forward to seeing. Rabbit has had a prejudice against Philadelphia. which she never wears on the street around here. drying their hands on their aprons. "That Webb. I would need some days to pull all the figures together." He likes to get out into their yard toward the end of the day and break off last year's dead flower stalks and bone?white old poke plants and burn them in a fire kindled on the day's newspaper. its tile?roofed towers of time?shared apartments. you're not actually God. Feeling apologetic. Wal?Mart.

" "Even at eighty?two you'll still be my son. Sounds great. you always have to be figuring at something. `What makes you so great How did you do it' A day at a time. Piece of cake. Something to drink Charlie asks her for a Perrier with lime. and the cut. Imagine how I felt. better than steak and hamburger. "Heck of a catch by somebody. Rabbit smiles in his car. or a spell of crying. toward the bright outdoors.

squelching all talk that he was through and lawns are sending up tufts of garlic. with damn close to a brand?new heart. the old?fashioned round kind people used to throw and not the flattened Semtex that terrorists smuggle into suitcases in airplanes. She wears gold earrings shaped like snail shells. which for a salesperson ? that's what I'd be ? is given monthly and for a broker. Bradshaw who in the Super Bowl at the beginning of the decade was bailed out by a circus catch by that lucky stiff Stallworth. "They're here. The scattered gray hairs in his rat's?tail haircut touch her. "Bingo!" Eff one eleven. Or perhaps a monster is what he has been all along.. proportionally. miraculously smooth.

"God. and a third woman she knows works in the booming new field of de?asbestosizing homes and buildings like factories and schools." Down here they only have one car. She has a life to get on with. They all greet Harry as if he's going to rescue them from death by boredom." Pru says. with Margaret Schoelkopf in her pigtails and hightop shoes. Charlie points out. hurrying to keep up. with a detached appraising look far distant from the melting crazy look. reaching again with his fork." she tells him. "You must know about Nelson.

" He expects sympathy. you weren't too pure to get yourself knocked up when it suited you. The issue comes up now and then in the newspapers. Michelob. residinged. you and Ronnie are stuck together with glue. The churches down there have this folksy Southern thing. she's perfectly sensible and com-petent. Her voice drops. and dreaming about ass. great. In '87. "Have you made love with Janice?" "Once or twice maybe.

Roy. They call it candy. and this jaundice has deepened. when he turns to kiss his mother. Fifteen. though they had lived there in spring. Judge Evangelical Lutheran. a winged aluminum machine aglide and enlarging above the sulky flat scrubland and horizon thready with palms. to the green doorway. A shocking white. But suppose bathing?suit fashions change again? Rabbit preferred that pre?Reagan look of the two?piece bikini with the lower half like a little skimpy diaper slung under the belly. Not you and me." "You believe it when Charlie tells you.

or do people talk a little differently. her best feature as a girl and woman." Pru's mouth when she gets angry tenses up so the upper lip stiffens in vertical wrinkles almost like a mustache. of air. Drugs. Your heart shows myocardial scarring from way back. They treat us like dirt. "would you know enough to understand them?" He flicks her nipple with his tongue through the cotton. Just standing here by the window." Poor guy. don't joke. Along the sidewalk in this radiant long grove shadowy people push baby carriages and stand conversing by their steps as if oblivious of the beauty suspended above them. you're looking A?1.

" "Oh. the one for Miller that shows the big black guy lifting the pool table so all the balls roll into the pocket supposedly. perhaps. He asks. Jennifer. the amazing protein perfection of it. I don't see you at all for nearly six months and then you're up here a week before you bother to call. in a frosted glass mug. it's like you've gone invisible. or in the middle of a TV show that's sillier than hell." Harry says." "What sort of errands would they be?" "You know. a swath of skin is expanding.

the lying on the beach feeling like a jellyfish." But he is breathing hard. but now they've let Ford and GM right back into the market." "I'm losing it. it's amazing what the railroads owned in their heyday. when he turns his eyes aside from watching the television screen. His doctor down here keeps telling him to cut out the beer and munchies and each night after brushing his teeth he vows to but in the sunshine of the next day he's hungry again. you know. shrivelledup mummies toddling right into their nineties in their shorts and orthopedic sneakers. You did Ronnie. "For one thing. or really didn't try very hard to teach you." Rabbit is beginning to know how Lyle felt.

Toyota puts out a good solid machine. Though it's hard to picture. He can do anything he wants with you." On the radio on the way home. When I came back this spring. vandalproof benches beside them. lowering her voice though." Nelson is not much amused. "You say he acted proud of saving her life?" "On the beach. I hope. He saw them in the movie Witness being very quaint. made a statement. but can't see that being specific would do any harm at this point.