Stretched out on the floor, his head gently rocked by the rhythmic swell and dip of the dog’s breathing, he was dreaming about the large grey clapboard house on the shores of Lake Ontario where his first girlfriend, Alison, had lived. (They still exchanged Christmas cards or marked significant events—the birth of a [...]
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One•II•3&4
Posted in Part One, Section 2, tagged 15-puzzle, Lake Ontario, perfectionism, window cleaning on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One•II•2
Posted in Part One, Section 2, tagged common ground beetle, ile flottante, moleskin notebook, national geographic, perfectionism on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rennie never went anywhere without a little black moleskin notebook in which he recorded his dreams. Sometimes his notes were spare, mysterious, an obscure shopping list of words or images:
silver rain—carburetor—olive tree—golf?.
Sometimes, they were a kind of idiosyncratic haiku:
moonless night,
silent on cold wet flagstone,
Pterostichus melanarius.
(Torn from a copy of the National Geographic [...]
Part One•Section II•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 2, tagged dappled woods, infatuation, perfectionism, Rennie on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rennie. Rennie was a promise whispered, earnestly, in the first faint half-light of infatuation. He had a certain beauty, although, more often than not, of late, the perception of it escaped Arden: when not lying prone on the floor of the study, he had the lithe athleticism of an otter. And like [...]
