FLASHBACKS IN CHAPTER 2 - REV ROAD

for the first time in

his life he was admired

the fact that girls could actually want to go to bed with him was only slightly more remarkable than

this other concurrent discovery that men, intelligent men at that could actually want to listen to him talk

and now as it often did in the effort to remember who he was

his mind went back to the first few years after the war

weren’t the biographies of all great men filled with this, some kind of youthful groping

this same kind of rebellion against their fathers and their fathers ways

he had traced several

alternate routes on a railroad map

the best thing about the plan

was it’s absolute secrecy

you want to know why everybody thinks your a jerk?

because you’re a jerk, thats why

most of her memories were were crisply told

and hard to sentimentalize

and he thought of how she must have lurched from her desk and

run from the room with a red stain the size of a maple life

he said to the exceptionally first rate girl whose shining hair and splendid legs

had drawn him halfway across a roomful of strangers

Are you Pamela?

No, that’s Pamela over there. I’m April

I’m a

longshoreman