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Show The Speed of Light Butch and Fenn Stories 9 On the way to the park, Butch says: "why don't you learn an instrument?" "Why?" "The guitar. The saxophone." "Nah." "Elvis did. You don't need to see if you can play an instrument." At twilight we are sitting on the bandstand roof. You crawl up through the rafters and there is a small hole in the roof and from the top you can see Indiana Avenue and the traffic all the way to the river. "We meet Parley at dark," Butch says. "What for?" "Observation." "Parley's an asshole," Fenn says. "The way we learn," Butch waves his hand over the world, "is by observing." We've heard it before. When the sun hits the horizon, we wait. "Now, watch," Butch says. "It will take five minutes to go out of sight." We all look right at the sinking sun. "See that?" Butch says to Fenn. "What?" "The light!" "Of course I see the light! It's killing my eyes!" |