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For the first week here in July he’d held the books upside-down in the corner of whatever room. He had a gigantic Mecical Dictionary he’d hauled down and smoke and read until Annie Parrot the Asst. Manager had to tell him not to bring it down anymore because it was fucking with Morris Hanley’s mind. At which juncture he quit reading and started talking, making everybody nostalgic for when he just sat there and read.
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Mark André
is on page 280 of 1088
Again I’ll say it — I don’t have a digital watch. This is a fine old antique watch. It points. A memento of far better days. It’s not a digital watch. It’s not a cesium-based atomic clock. It points, with hands. See, Spiro Agnew here has two little arms: they point, they suggest.
— 6 hours, 20 min ago
Mark André
is on page 270 of 1088
The gallery is barely even applauding Wayne and Incandenza anymore; at a certain point it becomes like Romans applauding lions.
— Oct 05, 2026 11:54AM
Mark André
is on page 267 of 1088
Though Schacht buys quarterly urine like the rest of them, it seems to Pemulis that Schacht ingests the occasional chemical that way grownups who sometimes forget to finish their cocktails drink liquor: to make a tense but fundamentally OK interior life interestingly different but no more, no element of relief; a kind of tourism; . . .
— Oct 05, 2026 09:48AM
Mark André
is on page 267 of 1088
Schacht looks over at Pemulis’s guy, a grunter with a moody profile and the storky look of recent puberty.
— Oct 05, 2026 09:24AM
Mark André
is on page 266 of 1088
The infra-lit courts are warm and soft; the heaters bolted into both walls above the tarp’s upper hem are the deep warm red of little square suns.
— Oct 04, 2026 01:56PM
Mark André
is on page 265 of 1088
They emerge through flaps in the tarp with hands upraised in slight apology to their opponents, walk out onto the warmer courts, the slow green eraserish footing of indoor composite. Their ears dilate into all the sounds in the larger space. Gasps and thwaps and pocks and sneakers’ squeaks. Pemulis’s court is almost down in female territory.
— Oct 03, 2026 11:02AM
Mark André
is on page 231 of 1088
listening to different mingling voices the way the unveiled young taste wine.
— Oct 02, 2026 04:34AM
Mark André
is on page 230 of 1088
since fallen into relative disuse because of it’s pulverizing hangover has been linked to the impulsive use of automatic weapons in public venues, a hangover that makes a freebase hangover look like a day at the emotional beach, the difference between suicide and homicide consisting perhaps only in where you think you discern the cage’s door:
— Sep 30, 2026 06:56AM
The details the author supplies for these scenes in halfway houses seem to be more than just a fertile imagination?✌️