![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Americans, for my money, are just too damned sophisticated!’ What is wrong with this country, for God’s sake?’ he said, pulling off the red clip earrings. Our brother just cut off three toes in the lawn mower, after defaulting on a bank loan, our other sister has hepatitis and will have to finish school in Richmond, Mother is drinking, Father refuses to see anyone, and the woman across the street went into her garage yesterday and turned on the automobile and asphyxiated herself. ‘I simply must get off,’ he said into the phone, ‘the bank beneath us is on fire and we’re being evacuated.’ He hung the telephone up and said, as he shook Malone’s hand gravely: ‘My sister, in Boston. He squirmed, like a Laocoon trapped by snakes, and made an anguished face at Malone. When he did return to New York he found Sutherland standing in the middle of the room with a mudpack on his face, round earrings and a red dress pulled down to his waist-all that remained of the costume in which he had gone to a dinner dance as La Lupe-and the twenty-five-foot foot telephone cord wrapped around his body. ![]()
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