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I turned away because my throat was closing up. Suddenly I had an erection. I knew men got that way about men, but I didn’t know I did.

His chest was like Christ’s. That’s probably who he was.

I could have followed anybody off that train. It would have been the same.

[...] After the film I talked to a man about vasectomies. A man with a mustache. I didn’t like him.

“You have to be sure,” he said.

“I’m never getting anybody pregnant again. I know that much.”

“Would you like to make an appointment?”

“Would you like to give me the money?”

“It won’t …

I liked to sit up front and ride the fast ones all day long, I liked it when they brushed right up against the buildings north of the Loop and I especially liked it when the buildings dropped away into that bombed-out squalor a little farther north in which people (through windows you’d see a perso…

He was trembling now with annoyance. Why did she seem so abstracted? He did not know how he could begin. Was she annoyed too about something? If she would only turn to him or come to him of her own accord! To take her as she was would be brutal. No, he must see some ardour in her eyes first. He lon…

Gabriel had not gone to the door with the others. He was in a dark part of the hall gazing up the staircase. A woman was standing near the top of the first flight in the shadow also. He could not see her face but he could see the terracotta and salmonpink panels of her skirt which the shadow made a…