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...land on Terra Caelestis [Heaven], with your pillow and chamberpot, you are made to room not with Shakespeare or even Longfellow, but with guitarists and cretins...
...final, and perhaps preposterous moment comes (with Tony's near-immolation) the boy's rejection of the outer shapes of his father's world-mouthwash, lawnmower, cocktails, covert sex noises from the bedroom, college, good job-is absolute. He simply takes to bed, hugging the pillow, and won't get up. All he will say to his desperate father is "I love the world. I just feel sad, that...
...icon stand and a bishop's chair. Pattakos' sister Irene, who still lives in Aghia Paraskevi, recalls their religious upbringing. "Mother taught us to make the sign of the cross before sleeping. My brother not only made the sign before his face but also on his pillow. I used to tease him by pretending to erase the cross from his pillow with my hand. He would make one sign after another, until I gave...
...every time it's the same girl. The door bell rings and there she is, in a peekaboo miniskirt and a see-through blouse. She says she wants some ice cubes, but what she really wants is me . . . Half an hour later I look up from my pillow. "Pardon me," I say, playing it sophisticated, "but aren't you Raquel Welch...
...wife betrayed an uneasiness about the boss's wife's presence. I'm not, after all, another businessman, though Mrs. Markin. She envisioned Mildred in a floor length, soft pink night gown. Did the same poised, shining face which looked across the desk, look up that way from a pillow? "O Mr. Markin," would it say, "You've not come like that in such a long time. You better rest now. Here, take this breast." Mrs. Markin smiled politely in the silence and let her eyes drift from the secretary to the painting on the paneled wall. She heard...