Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - I almost let it go - surely would have done,
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| I almost let it go - surely would have done,
if I'd been in one of my painting trances - but I
wasn'tThe picnic basket was only meant to be a
grace note, and I had already added othersI put
the brush back and picked up the phoneIt was
Wireman, and he sounded excited
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"She had a clear patch late this afternoon, Edgar!
It might not mean anything - I'm trying to keep my
hopes low - but I've seen this beforeFirst one
clear interval, then another, then another, then
they start to merge together and she's herself
again, at least for awhile
"She knows who she is? Where she is?"
"Not now, but for half an hour or so, starting
around five-thirty, she knew coco chanel black wallet that stuff and who I
was, tooListen, muchacho - she lit her own damn
cigarette!"
"I'll be sure to tell the Surgeon General," I said,
but I was thinkingRight around the
time Jack and I had been waiting for the
drawbridgeAround the time I'd felt that urge to
draw
"Did she want anything besides a cigarette?"
"She asked for foodBut before that, she asked to
go to the China VillageShe wanted her chinas,
Edgar! Do you know how long it's been?"
I did, actuallyAnd it was good to hear him
excited on her behalf
"She started to fade after I got her there, though
She looked around and asked me where Percy was
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She said she wanted Percy, that Percy needed to chanel bags online go
in the cookie-tin
I looked at my paintingIt was mine
now, all rightI licked my lips, which
suddenly felt leatheryThe way they always had
when I first woke up after the accidentWhen some
of the time I couldn't remember who I wasDo you
know what's queer? Remembering forgettingIt's
like looking into a hall of mirrors"Which one is
Percy?"
"Damned if I knowWhen she wants me to throw the
cookie-tin in the goldfish pond, she always
insists on putting a girl china in itUsually the
shepherdess with her face chipped off
"Did she say anything else?"
"She wanted food, I told youBy then she'd stopped looking at the
chinas, and she was getting confused omega mens watch fake again
Had she gotten confused because Percy wasn't there?
Or the Perse? Maybebut if she'd ever had a
china boat, I'd never seen itI thought - not for
the first time - that Perse was a funny wordYou
couldn't trust it
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Wireman said, "At one point she told me the table
was leaking
"And was it?"
There was a brief pauseThen he said, not very
humorously: "Are we having a little joke at
Wireman's expense, mi amigo?"
"No, I'm curiousWhat did she say? Exactly?"
"Just that'The table is leaking' But her chinas
are on a table-table, as you well know, not a
water-tableDon't lose your good thoughts
"I'm trying not to, but I have to say you seem a
little off your discount hermes conversational game, Edster
"Don't call me Edster, it sounds like a vintage
FordYou brought her soup, and she waswhat?
Gone again?"
"Pretty much, yeahShe'd broken a couple of her
china figures on the floor - a horse and a rodeo
girl
"Did she say 'It's leaking' before or after you
brought her the food?"
"After, before, what does it matter?"
"I don't know," I said"Which was it?"
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"BeforeAfterward, she'd
pretty much lost interest in everything, including
chucking the Sweet Owen tin into the pond for the
umpteenth timeI brought the soup in her favorite
mug, but she pushed it away so hard she slopped
some on her poor old armShe didn't even seem to
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