Only two things still seem real: the heavy black receiver of the pay phone, and the heat. He didn't know all of them, but he knew some: Walter Cronkite, Bugs Bunny, Jack Webb, Jimmy Carter, a woman he thought was Margaret Thatcher. Standing on the edge of the road which ran across Winsor Dam, looking north at the Reservoir (the Quabbin bright blue ' She gives him an impatient look which says, I know what you're thinking: daffy woman.
'They never change their clothes, did you ever notice that? Wear the same fuckin thing, show in and show out. Hi, Duddie, she'd go. A better idea. Brown suede.
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