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Show 213 do considering all he's done for our country, for democracy, for you." "That's right, isn't it?" She looked me over again. "He is sort of good looking-in a clean sort of way. Maybe I've underestimated him." "Shut up!" I said. "Just shut up, both of you, or you can get your own god damned rolls! Any time I want to screw you, Frances, I'll let you know. Otherwise ;jst forget it. I've screwed some of the best-looking girls in Miami!" They both were startled. "Try Norman Lander," I said. "I'd sooner get an apartment." But she moved in with Leo Zimmer on the second floor. Ben moved in on Amelia, I started being friends with Kate, and Kate was friends with John Tobin. Ben and I were over at the girls' apartment one night while Kate was out with Tobin and Amelia was downtown where she took some acting classes to read for a part in Lear. "Don't you think she'd be a perfect Cordelia?" he asked. "Sure. And a better Goneril." "You sound a little sour. She's too tall for you anyhow." "Screw you, you Chicago provincial. It was nothing but friendship, and, even if I .-as interested beyond that, what's this about height stereotypes?" "I understand that ladies recently divorced are always hard up." "Screw you. More stereotypes, eh? Assuming I was interested in more than frierdship, what's this about gentile with gentile, Jew with Jew?" "It stands to reason." "Bullsnit it does. Crossing over is good for the gene pool." "Rigrt. And fo<- liberal politics and to help stamp out religion and lots of things. But don't take it so hard, how can I--" |