Determined fat makeshift“You listen to Waller?” His words told more than they asked. “‘Where is Mortimer?’ she asks me!” DK: I know we’ve been off the record for a while now, but can I use that for the article? On the way out I passed my full-length mirror. The dress served its purpose, so I didn’t pay any attention from the neck down. What caught my eye was the head and face. Eighty-two, as I recall. The show started. Peter Thorpe spoke to the camera, live in-studio, against a green-screened photograph of three women in burqas. Kush looked to see that everyone’s attention was on the screen. When it was, he studied the bottoms of Roxanne’s big toes, which were only slightly larger than paintballs. His own sister, Jean, had just moved away for college, and he rarely saw her. He rarely sawany girls— definitely not the bottoms of their toes — so he studied Roxanne’s with the unsexed air of a paleontologist. In this way, the two men started working every day, as much as they could, on the VW buses, gutting them and sweating over their motors, eventually looking to give them all new paint jobs, trying to hawk them to young kids who seemed to find the old things hip. That was the plan. That’s what Phil had in mind. I. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF AN EVOLVING CULTURE “And that’s soon?” Are you losing it? howls Edda, scandalized. How easily she’s scandalized, this scandalous girl. I finish my hot chocolate and immediately pour myself another cup, top it off with a big pile of whipped cream, and pat and shape it with a teaspoon. I’ll have to down a lot of this drink before fully swallowing this joke. * * * “The right men?” Tanaqua asked. “Do you often have orgasms on the set?” Their feelings for one another burned deeply but that paper kept their relationship chaste. Sarah Ramsey, raised by fiercely independent Iroquois women, had asked for his hand years ago, had even suggested they could just cohabit in tribal style without a ceremony, but Duncan had refused. He had been her rescuer, her teacher, her mentor, her right hand in her little reign, but above all that he was her indentured servant. She may have coerced her father Lord Ramsey, who loathed Duncan, into transferring the indenture to her but he was still a servant. There would be no honor for either of them, he had insisted, in consummating their feelings before the seven-year indenture expired. The world would say she had forced him as her bond servant, or that he had coaxed himself upon her to ease his servitude.“The world’s an ass,” she had fumed. He had agreed, but would not relent. That night she had furiously impaled the document above the door, and it had remained there ever since. “You can leave, too,” I said. “Don’t you want to?” Why did you stick out your tongue at my friend? I’m fucking ashamed of you.. |