‘Don’t cry, Booboo. Re-member the flag only half-way up the pole? Booboo, there are two ways to lower a flag to half-mast. Are you listening? Because no shit I really have to sleep here in a second. So listen - one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There’s another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height. You get me? You understand what I mean, Mario?’

‘Hal?’

‘She’s plenty sad I bet.’

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a Husky VI-brand tele-scoping tripod, new and dully silvery-looking and set up on its three legs right in the middle of the thicket.

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Lord, bent to the cart’s blinking Yushityu, re-sponds that there seems to be a problem.

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That if enough people in a silent room are drink-ing coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee.

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That it’s possble to smoke so many cigarettes that you get little white ulcerations on your tongue.

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Just a plain ultraminimal blue square like Gately’s got on his right wrist takes half a day and hundreds of individual jabs.

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Michael Pemulis has this habit of looking first to one side and then over to the other before he says anything. It’s impossible to tell whether this is unaf-fected or whether Pemulis is emulating some film-noir-type character.

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