Several people tried to get me to go home, with...
Several people tried
to get me to go home, with no successDion
Knightly, one of my good friends there, all but
begged me to let him take me to see a doctorKnow
what I told him?"
I shook my head
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"'Corn in the field, deal soon sealed' I remember
it perfectly! Then I walked awayExcept I was
almost skippingWalking was too slow for Wireman
I pulled two all-nightersThe third night, the
security guard escorted me, protesting, from the
premisesI informed him that a rigid penis has a
million capillaries but not one scrupleI also
told him he was a dandy in aspic, and that his
father hated him Wireman prada milano brooded down at his
folder briefly"The thing about his father got to
him, I thinkActually I know it did He tapped
his scarred temple
"The next day I was called in to see Jack Fineham,
the grand high rajah of our kingdomI was ordered
to take a leave of absence
Jack opined that I'd come back too soon after 'my
unfortunate family reversals' I told him that was
silly, I'd had no family reversals'Say only that
my wife and child et a rotten apple,' I told him
'Say that, thou white-haired syndic, for it did be
mortal full of bugs' That was when the roaches
started to come out of his eyes and noseAnd coco chanel jewelry a
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couple from under his tongue, spilling white scum
down his chin when they crawled over his lower lip
"I started to screamIf not
for the panic button on his desk - I didn't even
know the paranoid old geezer had one - I might
have killed himAlso, he could run surprisingly
fastI mean he sped around that office, Edgar
Must have been all those years of tennis and
golf He mulled this for a moment"Still, I had
both madness and youth on my sideI had laid
hands on him by the time the posse burst inIt
took half a dozen lawyers to haul me off him, and
I tore his Paul Stuart suit-coat in halfStraight
down the louis vuitton gm bag back He shook his head slowly back and
forth"You should have heard that hijo de puta
hollerAnd you should have heard meThe maddest
shit you can imagine, including accusations -
shouted at the top of my lungs - about his
preference for ladies' underwearAnd like the
thing about the security guard's father, I think
that may well have been trueFunny, no? And,
crazy or not, valued legal mind or not, that was
the end of my career at Findum, Fuckum, and
Forgettum
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"I'm sorry," I said
"De nada, all for the best," he said in a
businesslike tone"As the lawyers were wrestling
me out of his office - which replica miu miu was trashed - I
pitched a fitThe grandest of grand malsIf
there hadn't been a legal aide handy with some
medical training, I might have died right there
As it was, I was out cold for three daysAnd hey,
I needed the sleep
He opened the folder and handed me three X-rays
They weren't as good as the cortical slices
produced by an MRI, but I had an informed layman's
understanding of what I was looking at, thanks to
my own experience
"There it is, Edgar, a thing many claim does not
exist: the brain of a lawyerHave any pictures
like these yourself?"
"Let's put it this way: if I'd wanted to fill replica fendi spy a
scrapbook