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Enjoyed Leo & Theodore. Stunning opening paragraph.

Durwood drives knife into heart and splits the fish in a stroke from throat to vent. Leo and Teddy gape at bowels slipping overboard and there in the wide cavity spills gleaming gray caviar. Daddy grins blissfully, rinsing his bloody blade in waves, and sheathes it. Stars rise on the watergardens. They row home, a red railroad lamp burning on the bow in the night.

“the fact that some people act nice, right from the start, but they may well be harboring reservations about you, the fact that there might be something about you that reminds them of somebody they never liked, and there’s not a thing you can do to get past that, and you never will, and you’ll never know why they never took to you, the fact that they could never explain it themselves”

“the fact that I’m scared of old times, the fact that old times are soggy, saggy cradles of regret”

Completed my revised goal of making it through Sylvia’s monologue before the end of the year, lol.