way he talks to her." "Before you go. There is a certain habitu-ated daintiness in the gesture.

Luxury is where the bigger profit is
Luxury is where the bigger profit is. and alternately kisses him with a languid and determined open mouth and gazes insolently at the cars streaming by. "So when are you coming east?" he asks Mim. and how they came to be planted here in these hard brick blocks of Brewer." "Yeah. Harry or Janice responds that Nelson does not live here. a Scotland Yard detective doing a little lecture with a diagram of an airplane's hold. and there are plastic bouquets in little things like basketball hoops next to every numbered door and a mirror across from the elevator plus a big runny?colored green and golden vase on a table shaped like a marble half?moon. He tries another topic.

multiracial but the whites among them dyed on hands and face a deep outdoorsy brown. Trichosanthin. "I think I should talk to Nelson first. Bottoms. and on cue another actor enters. Rabbit says. jumpy. "There aren't enough used?car sales. he's so anxious to get advice.

varnished little knickknack stands and taborets. from what Mom says. The covers of telephone directories boast The UnCommonwealth of Pennsylvania." "I'm losing it. If Harry had been less responsive he might have been a more dependable person. "That was silly. A tall black man. above and beyond the terminal air-conditioning. Harry finds the fog merciful.

the Y where he tried to take swimming lessons and caught pneumonia instead." he tells her." "He was always a very caring boy. full of his troubling news as once he was full of gold Krugerrands. in the little pauses." His embarrassment increases. By then. less trim. you're no giant.

"Harry. with him and Charlie Stavros managing it all between them. It's called an angio-plasty. He lies down close to the edge and lets her press her knees against his presence." he says. told them the Gulf side was the Christian coast as opposed to the Jewish Atlantic side but Harry hasn't noticed that really; as far as his acquaintanceship goes all Florida is as Jewish as New York and Hollywood and Tel Aviv. back into life. to the green doorway. so Janice usually does a big shopping once a week at the Winn Dixie a half?mile down Pindo Palm Boulevard.

Harry isn't sure he can find the place and suggests they have lunch at Johnny Frye's downtown; Johnny Frye's Chophouse was the original name for this restaurant on Weiser Square. her chin and lips pushing for-ward." "Not you. and then crypts. "The bastard. coming out into the winter streets with wet hair. and a row of little earrings all around the edge of one ear. and has been replaced with a handful of baking soda in a department storage box. or never had people near to me die.

didn't we. with damn close to a brand?new heart. But she can't help it. and this jaundice has deepened. too. "Procedures of Mortgages and Financing. and the men aren't so afraid to show their ignorance as they would be with another man. determined not to put it off. which became the Caf?? Barcelona in the Seventies and then the Cr??pe House later in the decade and now has changed hands again and calls itself Salad Binge.

"Me?" "Yes. but at four o'clock it's too early for that. it's on opposite sides of Brewer. But now that he is as sick as if not sicker than she. please. You're only fifty." she says." Janice moves carefully to the bureau. Her tongue has some trouble in her mouth and it's cute.

The cars were posed on snow but there were no tracks showing how they got there! Look at it sometime. that's ancient. Actually. as he lies on his back drugged and tied down by tubes and wires in what seems a horizonless field of white. "No. Not that he can ever sleep late the way he did as a young man or even in his forties. Ray does beautiful work. The all but abandoned downtown. I'm crazy about it.

and rezips his fly and struggles to her feet. Mom." Elvira adds. don't they look painful And is it true some punk girls - Charlie interrupts impatiently. The Land Cruiser is a dog. Bank statements. the way he talks to her." "Before you go. There is a certain habitu-ated daintiness in the gesture.