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There was a paper-covered volume on top of the pile. Vag picked it up and gingerly opened it. Logarithmic Tables and Mathematical Functions. Math C, thought Vag; a lot of good that had done. Vag flipped the book across the room and it slid behind an old laundry case. That for that...
...Vag looked at the brown paper soap flakes box squatting sullenly in the middle of the floor, with a pyramid of books heaped up over its rim. Three years worth of junk, thought Vag, just taking up space. This year he would start differently. Vag seized the box with one hand and heaved the books out onto the rung...
This was four weeks, Vag thought. The practice slope had been gradual and smooth, with the sun melting a glaze on the snow. Vag had snapped his brand-new bindings shut, listening to the satisfactory double click as they went into place. Then he had squared his shoulders, hunched forward, adjusted his special plastic goggles, and pushed off down the hill. He had been near the bottom snow-plowing when something gave. Then he was lying on his side with his left ski pointing the wrong...
Four weeks, muttered Vag, to the thud of his crutches. This was for the birds. Aubody who wanted to freeze to death on a pair of boards had rocks in his head. He turned a corner, splashing into a puddle as he went, and brushed into somebody with horn-rimmed glasses and a furry-collared cost who Vag thought lived across the hall...
...said Vag, "Suicide Six," as he quietly wiggled his toes beneath the sock...