So near now. It had been a lark, to a great degree, this beingarrested, going to court, spending the night in a clean cell in the Village. There is an infinitude of grimy garbage cans in the greater Manhattan area. It was obvious: the call had beenanonymous, and there was no way of proving if it had been Bales or someone else.
Harlan is mercilessly impatient with cosmetic civilization, with the self-congratulatorycompl After all, I hadn’t done anything. How bad could it be? I realized in that moment that Richard was still living in that other world. My heart was thumping painfully in my chest, but my voice came solid.
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