Rembrandt paintings
Raphael paintings
Sally Swatland paintings
defined his condition to Angela after the first week of the régime. “I’m not rejuvenated or invigorated. I’m etherealized.”
“You look like a ghost.”
“Exactly. I’ve lost sixteen pounds three ounces.”
“You’re overdoing it. No one else keeps these absurd rules. We aren’t expected to. It’s like the ‘rien ne va plus’ at roulette. Mrs. What’s-her-name has found a black market in the gym kept by the sergeant-instructor. We ate a grouse pie this morning.”
They were in the well-kept grounds. A chime of bells announced that the brief recreation was over. Basil tottered back to his masseuse.
Later, light-headed and limp, he lay down and stared once more at the ceiling paper.
As a convicted felon might in long vigils search his history for the first trespass
Saturday, September 27, 2008
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