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Show MORGAN AND THE GIRL WITH THE PILLOW He arrives over chalky gravel roads on an August afternoon. He has driven out of the East, over black turnpikes and narrow state roads to this, dusty South Dakota, his friend's farmhouse which he will paint. He considers himself an artist, though not a painter, certainly not a house painter, and the exact reasons he has made this trip, beyond friendship, are unclear. He knows only that he is twenty-nine years old and in between things. It seems to Morgan that he is always in between things. It is hot, incredibly hot and still, and when he arrives at the farm Dave is not there and there are no cars in the driveway. There is, however, an old asthmatic dog to greet him; and behind the house, chained to a tree, a goat which will not stop bleating. He feels welcome. The house is unlocked and so he walks in, opens the |