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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TORI: [QB] 77 Tong's fake-classical theme cracked and hollowed, weird bass notes rumbling in just above the threshold of the subsonic. ???cracked and hollowed 80 And so far, she thinks, she's not seen a single face she knows from before, and no one has greeted her, and she finds herself imagining the bridge's entire population replaced in her absence. No, there went the bookstall woman, the one with the ivory chopsticks thrust into her dyed black bun, and she recognizes the Korean boy with the bad leg, rumbling his father's soup wagon along as though it should have brakes. ??? rumbling his father's soup wagon along as though it should have brakes = suggesting he was going so fast that he should have brakes? 80 Perfect for Tessa, she thinks: the bridge people maintaining their interstices. Doing their little things. But Chevette has seen them drunk. Has seen the drugged and the mad dive to their deaths in the gray and unforgiving chop. ??? chop 82 Shadowed where she remembers light, and she sees that the bulb, above, in this enclosed space, is missing. This is the lower end of Skinner's "funicular," the little junkyard elevator trolley, built for him by a black man named Fontaine, and it was here that she'd lock her bike in her messengering days, after shouldering it up another, less covert ladder. ??? junkyard elevator trolley 83 "Have you seen this girl?" Movie-looking white man, face painted dark like they do down the coast. How they dress when they had time to think about coming here, everything worn out just right. Leather jacket like he's left his old airplane around the corner. Blue jeans. Black T. ??? face painted dark 86 The store on Sunset had had a finish that ate graffiti. The gang kids would come and tag it; twenty minutes later these flat, dark, vaguely crab-like patches of dark blue would come gliding around the corner. Rydell had never understood how they worked and Durius said they'd been deve1oped in Singapore. They seemed to be embedded, a few millimeters down into the surface, which was a sort of non-glossy gel-coat affair, but able to move around under there. Smart material, he'd heard that called. And they'd glide up to the tag, whatever artfully abstract scrawl had been sprayed there to declare fealty or mark territory or swear revenge (Durius had been able to read these things and construct a narrative out of them) and start eating it. You couldn't actually see the crablegs move. They just sort of nuzzled in and gradually the tag started to unravel, de-rez, molecules of paint sucked down into the blue of the Lucky Dragon graffiti-eaters. ??? Durius had been able to read these things and construct a narrative out of them - narrative - like there was actually some story to tell? ??? de-rez - losing resolution 90 ... her parents' (Praisegod's) sect identified all things federal as aspects of Satan. ???aspects of Satan = impersonations of Satan? 91 Rydell was instantly engulfed in a fog of vodka and errant testosterone. He turned and saw Creedmore grinning fiercely, quite visibly free of the human condition. Behind him loomed a larger man, pale and fleshy, his dark eyes set close together. "You're drunk," snapped the security guard. "Get out." "Drunk?" Creedmore winced grotesquely, miming some crippling emotional pain. "Says I'm drunk..." Creedmore turned to the man behind him. "Randy, this motherfucker says I'm drunk." The corners of the large man's mouth... ???fleshy ???would you say the other man (Randy) was fat or tall or whatever? 97 THE apartment is large and has nothing in it that is not of practical use. Consequently, the dark hardwood floors are bare and quite meticulously swept. Seated in an expensive, semi-intelligent Swedish workstation chair, he is sharpening the knife. This is a task (he thinks of it as a function) requiring emptiness. ???function - which one of the following meanings fits? (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=function) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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