I waited with the others in the hotel for instructions, and while waiting I scoured through the bins of antiquarian gas station attendant uniforms. A gap toothed tailor approached me to recommend his dentist, who, he said, only charges $149 to pull out one tooth and break off a second with wire cutters. ONLY?
While wearing safety goggles, I sat crosslegged today at the public library deliberating on how to make a train go straight between two cliffs. If the train has to go UP a hill the tracks should have matching teeth. The goggles are using my nose but they don't want to stay up, and that is the extent of the disguise that they gave me.
Arpeggio, arpeggiando, arpeggiato - Stephanie did it all, and like a bouncing stroke on a broken chord, the violinist, hunched up on a chair and whimpering, followed me on foot through my daily errands. And even though no sound ever came out of it, she got the violin to behave in a way in which she could understand it.
