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@@@@@Walking 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 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 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 burs
