Fuck, thinks Stan. She knows about the chickens.

“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have …”

“My life had a tendency to spread, get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the fr…”

“The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a pri…”

“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who do…”