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Show 56 Red hadn't thought about what kind and I could see by the way his jaw iigxixx tightened that he was starting to feel stupid. "You want stories?" the woman said. "Novels?" That's what Red wanted. Red started out with mysteries but he lost interest in them pretty quick. He moved on to historical novels but that didn't last long either. In a few weeks he was reading stuff like (St The Catcher in the Rye and Rabbit, Run and not too long later War and Peace and Madame Bovary? Every week Red carted me off to the library, though Neda came too because all she did was read and eat donuts and cookies and say nasty stuff anymore, and I'd wander off to the juvenile section and come back with a book about airplanes or planets and horses, something I could look at the pictures in because I never read them, and Red gxxxxxa brought x home a stack of literature like The Sound and the Fury or Crime and Punishment or Women in Love and plopped down next to the Zenith and read while we watched the tube. Red read. Reading Red. Red the reader. Red read and read and read. We watched 'Leave It to Beaver" and Red read The Idiot. And Red kept a notebook. Everytime he finished a book £ he closed it and looked into the air for a minute or two, then got up and went over to the secretery near the front door- He opened the lid and pulled up a xraii and crouched over a notebook. I saw it just once, because he didn't like anybody watching him. If you came in the room he 'd huddle over his xxx notebook and tell you to go watch TV. He had the title and author of every book and underneath he wrote pages about what happened and what he thought about it. Red was sure acting strange. And Max Neda was acting strange. I thought she'd get so g fat her arms and legs would disappear, xxx Her parts were becoming indistinguishable. She looked like a walking ham. If something a didnH try to eat her she tried to eat it. She walked around saying stuff like 'shit', 'fuck', and 'bleah'. I even went to Helen about it. Offered to help with the dishes just to get an audience. "Notice anything strange about Neda recently?" I said to Helen. "Don't say anything nasty about Neda," said Helen. "Neda's going to bust open," I said. "Can't that happen?" |
