nine pounds (a great blessing) dur?ing t montment. t been sloo criticize oes, teetics. quot;It seems to me,quot; Veronica ;t you y.quot; quot;My first social responsibility,quot; ;is t t collapse.quot; quot;Rig rig; s;but you are after all a creature of tructure. You ructure.quot; true enougionaries didnt build buildings, needed only clos?ets to oil tects tics from a K-Mart of sources, to-sen troopers of Sixty Minutes. ten left and rigion, sometimes tence.

    ing. A feed on too muc carefully about a sufficiency.  of en, as insufficiently virile, or insuffi?ciently ambitious. ation? On t it? Anne some?times looked like a ty-year-old, especially s, tall and bossy, t, and Veronica ake your cical, great lip on t kid, never  a spiked re?mark.  el, didnt mind being a el, okay Im a el. taking turns, five or six oclock, e  very good  on for a long urn to one anoto lick t, quite near, Simon  ones buttocks, around  and ttocks ive strokes, raking t intervals, but softly, little bites, but softly, the flesh is so delicious Dore said, or Anne said.

    quot;YOUVE been bad Veronica.quot;

    quot;No I  ts not bad ts  all.quot;

    quot;I agree ;

    quot;No I  I dont call t --quot;

    quot;Very bad.quot;

    quot;I dont call t bad ts not  all you s Ive seen if you  to talk about --quot;

    quot;Yes Veronica yes of course of course Veronica I didnt t it w;

    quot;Dore dont go I  been bad s trying to tell you Ive been bad but I mean are you going to be?lieve  because s;

    quot;ell ;

    quot;Bad.quot;

    quot;You see.quot;

    quot;O talking about everyt stle somet tle somet s rition --quot;

    quot;I dont mind making ;

    quot;Veronica, are you essentially ;

    quot;ell spit. ts ;

    quot;Youre not going to talk is t it?quot;

    quot; ;

    quot;Im not going to  er you cant  a sister even a bad sister ts one of ternal rules not even a terribly, terribly bad sister. Like Veronica.quot;

    quot;Im about as bad as I  to be, so far. I  t about  grasped   to be in ture ;

    quot;I dont to acknos. I dont ty. I give up I ab?solutely give up.quot;

    quot; to I dont care.  t;

    quot;O   stand t;

    quot;I dont  to  ;

    quot; me.quot;

    quot; ;

    quot; ;

    quot;God I dont kno kick  do I care its not my problem is it.  ;

    quot;You dont ts a little severe?quot;

    quot;Its gonna take a goddamn presidential order to get you to  ;

    quot;;

    quot;Okay Ive been bad. I admit it. But ot some fingers.quot;

    quot;Lord Im tired of listening to t get it toget to five minutes Im going to --quot;

    quot;?quot;

    SIMONS fato California for to buy a dark suit,  to Barneys and picked t one t seemed to fit ood next to er said  for troduced as Connie and Bill and  to be golfers, part of a mixed foursome o be present because of a daug play.

    After s ; are you doing?quot;

    quot;taking a little time off.quot;

    quot;Its been mont;

    quot;Excellent mont;

    quot;Just asking.quot;

    quot;s tuation?quot;

    quot;Your fat t, as you kno Carbide  years ago at t before  seventy-t trouble.  ten tually it  up to seventy-eig  uff ts looking good.quot;

    quot; coming to Ne and buy a lot of furniture.quot;

    quot;I dont  to buy any more furniture,quot; ;I like it o see  feels. If I need you Ill call you, rely on it.quot;

    quot;Noture.quot;

    quot;I agree. But it o be going to;

    Noto say to t.

    of red?ook a stain ifully. tens of  of California red lumberman in tate, but not t. Simon remembered odd mo?ments: putting a ersaurant and elling ;Dont do t, son, it ?ting by tening to t, sitting by t long in 1939 listening to accounts of t to Penn, old  it, and  ; are o tell your mot; to release a burst of neive energy,  not sadness and admiration.

    Back in Ney.  registered to vote. Nevertifully o 60 Centre Street one Monday morning. teents Building are filled s at least ty paperback copies of le Carres ttle Drummer Girl, ion or of a trade journal dealing ting furiously, a sleeveless ser, as salks. quot;e make nine ,quot; s;Can you believe it?quot; Seen issues a year, o ninety-six pages of editorial and God knos o to feature after a s are take a lot of clues from tists. Mempter and clatter.quot;

    tor tells  ant is a berserko and t its impossible to get good subordi?nates t;t is accused of sexual misconduct,quot; tells t;ill t stand up so t t; t stands and almost involuntarily takes a little boorneys, questioning Simon in t ect. At ts, in a cluster of fast food stands in a little park near t?.

    t urned doaylor, Cmans, Saks, Macys. tried all tarting . Simon designed and ed composites for t t every ad agency of any size in ty. titute teacions but found tate credentials ion tions for t?ment but old t t tion be?fore 1999, o begin train?ing.

    Anne and Veronica are fighting.

    quot;Stupid bitc;

    quot;Ass;

    quot;Cmon, guys,quot; Simon says. quot;s t;

    quot;S; Anne says. quot;Crummy c.quot;

    quot;Look ; Veronica says, jumping out of Annes reac;Miss Cunt of 1986.quot;

    quot;s t? s t;

    quot;Simon youre so fucking reasonable,quot; Veronica says, sitting dohe couch.

    quot;I say, ;

    quot;S us a job,quot; Anne says.

    quot;terrific,quot; says Simon. quot;s t;

    quot;Convention. tional Sprinkler Association. At to stand under t sprinkled. I  do it.quot;

    quot; if ts?quot;

    quot;Its not raincoats t to see.quot;

    quot; if I said transparent plastic raincoats?quot;

    quot;I mig ransparent plastic raincoats.quot;

    quot;Ill call t s two ;

    quot;Raincoats and body stockings.quot;

    quot;No tockings.quot;

    quot;Let tions.quot;

    quot;I just feel like a body.quot;

    quot; in Gods name do you t?quot;

    quot;I kno;

    quot;Look at it t; Simon says. quot;A body is a gift. A great body is a great gift.quot;

    quot;All I need. A Unitarian minister.quot;

    quot;You dont o take t;

    quot;e dont ;

    quot;You  me to make a little pile of money and burn it rigake it easy. ait until you find somet.quot;

    quot;ere concubines.quot;

    quot;You can make everyterrible as you ,quot; Simon says. quot;Im going to bed.quot;

    quot;;

    Simons ter arrives and outlines s full custody of treet y-five t at a level consonant yle of life, fifty percent of all re?tirement funds, IRA, Keogy per?cent of nerserest in tuity, and fifty percent of all odds and ends of stocks, bonds, casy not subsumable under one of t ion and t , t?ter suggests.

    quot; are you going to do?quot; Veronica asks.

    quot;Give it to ;

    quot;ere you really t bad?quot;

    quot;ating it a bit.quot;

    quot;e are pure skin.quot;