Barker, David

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malls, shopping centers, supermarkets17.he found them everywhere and anywhere —  the young mothers, the lonesome wives, the disillusioned brides —  at mid day in the malls, shopping centers, the air-cooled supermarkets, easy as pie.a fail-proof pickup, something in their eyes. irresistible truth; the magic of cognizance, there's one with raven black locks, eating ice cream, alone on a bench, not for long. "let me introduce myself ... another, yonder by the orange julius stand.or how about the lovely in high heels delicious legs getting into her car. his private tigress a half hour from now.1 8 .heaven and hell and the phenomenon of timehe found he couldn't live with it; conversely he found he couldn't do without it. some higher moral order, an "ineffable something," seemed to call to him from vaulted ceilings, ignoring it, he jumped at every chance.he turned to alcohol ... the universal solvent, the days melted clean away into years, he lost all former sense of proportion. those preternatural imperatives, once so blatantly obvious, now eluded him. in the fun house of life he stood before love's double mirrors dumbfounded. the rivers of time pissed on him.at the depths of his depravity he discovered it difficult to even love himself anymore.104

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