quot;A; Simon says.

    quot;Not too bad,quot; says Veronica.

    quot;Ill ; Ralps a ten on the bar.

    quot;Me too,quot; says Veronica.

    quot;Ill go along,quot; Simon says.

    quot;You tting it on, or ; Ralph asks.

    quot;Just acquaintances,quot; Veronica says. quot;Mere ac?quaintances.quot;

    quot;Dont look like mere acquaintances to me,quot; Ralp;I  sort of toward eac;

    quot;ttle muddy,quot; Simon says. t;Into t;.

    quot;You mean conceptually?quot; Veronica asks.

    quot;I mean t;

    quot;I dont care,quot; Ralp;If you tting it on. Im just an old friend. If you tting it on, Im  my type, actually. I love  s my type. e spent t to?get ears. You remember?quot;

    quot;Dont remind me. I remember.quot;

    quot;t; Ralp;Denvers finest.quot;

    quot;You rying very ; Veronica says.

    quot;I alry very  t me. But you just sat t, all nig I said to myself, Ralp is tactic? Is ts a tactic, ive? I couldnt see an objective. So I decided it ;

    quot;It ;

    quot;So I said to myself, o deal ?quot;

    quot;Booze we already ;

    quot;Stuff a cold, starve a fever,quot; Ralp;I decided ty-t;

    quot;I  busted up ;

    quot;So ting tearing up ty-t four oclock in tells me I lessly pedestrian mind. Remember t?quot;

    quot;I guess I ;

    quot;I  una,quot; Ralp;Nevert  me, at time. No.quot;

    quot;I oo drunk to be as sensitive as I am ; she says.

    quot;You ty un am I doing in tel room ;

    quot;I never t of you t  of you as kind of a friend.quot;

    quot;I just boug; Ralp;People end to buy cars t are gold in color.quot;

    quot;No; Veronica says. quot;Stop it.quot;

    quot;Back to Denver,quot; Ralp;Denver and my gold Mazda.quot;

    quot;t; Simon says. quot;t;

    IN t dream ed .45 randomly in treet. ten t ting on a lounge in a el lobby s and s bare-ced. quot;Ive got to find a s,quot; . tment, o find a s. People ment and  banging into cymbals on stands placed  find a s.  of a closet and asked o be a little quieter.

    A sober conversation ;tim asked Dore to come to ; s;. to begin o be tary.quot;

    quot;Its got crasten all over it.quot;

    quot;S.quot;

    quot;Like being vice-president of a bag of popcorn.quot;

    quot;I kno; Anne says, sig;God I e being a secretary. I did it for telling you o do.quot;

    quot;If you could do ed --quot;

    quot;Id like to be an independent oil operator. t of t y guys. Great s.quot;

    quot;ell,quot; Simon says, quot;ts a skill too. You o kno;

    quot;I er of geology.quot;

    quot;Maybe law sc;

    quot;terrible.quot;

    quot;You dont kno for a fact.quot;

    quot;Im a total failure.quot;

    quot;Begin.quot;

    o get angry, Simon  knoe o react. ter all, done little more to stay, feed talk to tending good Cian felloo be mad at somebody, ood t, and even if t till t arting t ill o go somewional Enquirer,

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    Some days ties. Eac any given point  t a t a fourty-nine possibilities before h expired.

    t to s, and approved, in general, of togetory, eco?nomics, building codes. Let t. Veronica liked garage apartments. Per?tend t a black bean soup t tenuator capable of turn?ing crackers into lisping Brits, and end up  in Paris on té. Young men iff pricks and smelled good, by and large, almost as good as babies. Young ed attacks. Simon counted ted.

    Sara;Do you know w s; so her.

    quot;?quot;

    quot;Fallen in love.quot;

    Simon is astonis;it;

    quot;t;

    quot;Good God ts terrible.quot;

    quot;S nig;

    quot;O;

    quot;talk to ;

    quot;ould s to talk to me about t;

    quot;I guess not. S srying to get a;

    quot;I understand t. I understood t a long time ago.quot;

    quot;Dont be bitter.quot;

    quot;Simple statement of fact. People get too mucy goes a;

    quot;Yeater butt out. Not t youve o do ely.quot;

    quot;ell. Do you ;

    quot;Daddy youve been asking me t since I een.quot;

    quot;Its a reflex. Listen, Sara be better if I didnt kno it?quot;

    quot;I ts you to kno it. t it.quot;

    quot;Is ;

    quot; of love. More t;

    ;Keep me posted,quot; he says.

    quot;I dropped ays of Being, t.quot;

    quot;;

    quot;It ured into ie, mostly.quot;

    Veronicas trampoline is leaning against t it to see ion bounces a good t. Dore is painting er-egg glazes. Anne is tening to cut off ands poised, a o interfere. quot;Anybody messes s t; Simon senses unrest.

    A terrible nigen, taking a Scotccelevision. Veronica is out someen-ty Anne comes into trips, and gets into bed h him.

    quot;Im c; she says.

    urns omaco stroke ly. A very sculptural , narrohe hipbones flaring.

    o go back to  the doorway.

    quot;Are you all tired?quot; she asks.

    quot;Probably.quot; Dore climbs into ts, retaining tank top yle of t. Sakes  tfully.

    quot;Im sad and depressed,quot; s;I feel useless. All I do is sit around and cV.quot;

    quot; do you  to do?quot;

    quot;Somet I dont kno;

    quot;Lot of people in tion,quot; Simon says.

    quot;I dont  to be a la  to be a   to be a musician.  does t leave?quot;

    quot;Be bad. Imagine somet;

    quot;Like ;

    quot;I o tell you o imagine?quot;

    S ;tter?quot;

    quot;d you say?quot;

    quot;or. tend to be crude.quot;

    ruggles around to kiss t;terrible nig;

    quot;;

    quot;You guys arent solving your problems. I cant ;  over o ttocks. ttercups and butterflies and flying buttresses and butts of malm?sey.

    quot;Veronica ; she says, coming up for air.

    quot; kind of a ras;

    quot;Dark red. Looks like a ain.quot;

    quot;?quot;

    quot;Youll see.quot;

    Saliva is running dohusi?asm.

    Veronica ; is taking place ; shunder.

    AFtER ted Simon set up a small office in a barely renovated building on est Broad in treet, sirens, rape, outrage. ners in P  UPS a fruitcake or a brace of p to one recov?ering from an illness, ion t to be enjoyed not no later,  ing table, a ing on carpenters sa pen. tion ies. ty  alto-ceiling reet in ting building, very little lig scoop to be affixed to t fig?ured t t ubing for t scoop ruction augo say about foundations:

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    But ts a little , t ting s tion. to be  very good.

    SIMON t Paradise. On t to t see  make it to Paradise? Seems unfair. Great deal of marble about, ices, serra-cotta; Paradise seems to one. Science  a o cremate o t into space in a rocket, solving t Laure, for omb sculp?ture.

    Paradise unearned. It , in t ate or condition vis?ited upon igues for most of t o day, sometimes carrying drunken comrades back to t nigside Stuttgart, in a firemans lift.  in meaningless maneuvers   ly, ed, t. Simon read Stars amp; Stripes and very good mystery novels by Joried to find buildings by Karl Friedric been lost on Mies. t to listen to them.

    quot;Ive y-six years practice in standing up. I can do it,quot; Anne says.

    S pants er and medium-gray Reeboks. Sequila and serribly drunk.

    quot;I  to tell you somet;

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    quot;You t;

    quot; makes you t?quot;

    quot;Your attitude.quot;

    Simons been reading Audubon Action, quot;Arizona Dam Project Faces New C;

    quot;s my attitude?quot;

    quot;I see fatigue and disgust.quot;

    quot;Sie, ts not true.quot;

    quot;Dont call me sie.quot;

    quot;Anne,quot; ;you  to sit do;

    quot;You t brig;

    quot;Youre as brig.quot;

    quot;You titude of disdain. Sticks out all over you.quot;

    quot;Just not so.quot;

    quot;Veronica t us out.quot;

    quot;No. Untrue.quot;

    quot;S;

    quot;ts ure of Paradise.quot;

    quot; is it?quot;

    quot;Knoll, basically.quot; co you see t allorying to --quot;

    quot;t; son?is.

    quot;Some angels ; ured.

    quot;;

    quot; makes you teral sense?quot;

    quot;Ive al;

    quot;Artists like symmetry.quot;

    quot;.quot;

    quot;You can get a lot accomplisra. I sa t;

    quot;But itd be like .quot; . s are bare. quot;If Id spent t of time  my mind as I  my c, Id be ; s;I mean since teen.quot;

    quot;Old ;

    quot;Dont be so snotty. e ;

    quot;e sexy. tit;

    quot;You ts ;

    quot;Could be.quot;

    Simon positions te plaster egg eig tall in tting room. tc heir names are harry.