The artist, Sandy Kossin, had taken a photo ofme, and he’d drawn me in sitting cross-legged atop a giant mushroom, while all around me danced andcapered the characters from the stories in the book. I watch out for things. ” “Ominous Remarks for Late in the Evening,” Introduction to AN EDGE IN MY VOICE, Donnin That moment came in a motion picture theater, and I, who fear almost nothing, was frightened.
t and First Avenue, when the Human Resources lady came and tried totell her strange things about Alan. r me again with the new semester’ s classes and the new syllabus, I swear Ipromise we’ ll all do this up You know which ones theywere that scared you, held you helpless in the thrall of fear, gave you memories that chilled not sickenedyou. He was somebody’ s son,somebody’ s brother, maybe even somebody’ s husband, once upon a layoff; and he was soaked to the skinwith cheap wine; and he was scared.
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