He's a little weak, maybe,
and he has absolutely... He's a little weak, maybe,
and he has absolutely no head for business, and people don't like him
very much, but he's a hell of a lot better than the cheats and liars who
go round smoothing things over because they're so slickI'm as bad as
he is about not backing down once I've said something, so we fight a
lot, but really, he's not a bad guy
Midori took my hand as if she were picking up something someone
had dropped in the street, and placed it on her lapHalf my hand lay
on the skirt, the rest touching her thighShe looked into my eyes for
some time
"Sorry to bring you to a place like this," she said, "but would
you mind staying with me a little longer?"
"I'll stay with you all day if you want," I said I like
spending time with you, and I've got nothing else to do
"How do you usually spend your Sundays?"
"Doing my laundry," I
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"I don't suppose you want to tell me too much about her your
girlfriend?"
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"No, I guess notIt's complicated, and I, kind of, don't think I could
explain it very wellYou don't have to explain anything," said Midori"But do
you mind if I tell you what I imagine is going on?"
"No, go aheadI suspect anything you'd imagine would have to be
interesting
"I think she's a married woman
"You do?"
"Yeah, she's thirty-two or -three and she's rich and beautiful and she
wears fur coats and Charles Jourdan shoes and silk underwear and
she's hungry for sex and she likes to do really yucky thingsThe two
of you meet on weekday afternoons and devour each other's bodies
But her husband's home on Sundays, so she can't see youAm I
right?"
"Very, very interesting
"She has you tie her up and blindfold her and lick every square inch of
her
bolsas louis bodyThen she makes you put weird things inside her and she gets
into these incredible positions like a contortionist and you take
pictures of her with a Polaroid camera
"She's dying for it all the time, so she does everything she can think
ofAnd she thinks about it every dayShe's got nothing but free time,
so she's always planning: Hmm, next time Watanabe comes, we'll do
this, or we'll do thatYou get in bed and she goes crazy, trying all
these positions and coming three times in each oneAnd she says to
you, "Don't I have a sensational body? You can't be satisfied with
young girls any moreYoung girls won't do this for you, will they? Or
thisFeel good? But don't come yet!"'
"You've watched too many porno movies," I said with a laugh
"You think so? I was kind of worried about thatBut I love
porn filmsTake me to one next time,
chanel tote OK?"
"Fine," I said"Next time you're free
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"Really? I can hardly waitLet's go to a real S&M one, with whips
and, like, they make the girl pee in front of everyone
That's my favourite
"You know what I like best about porn cinemas?" "I couldn't begin to
guess
"Whenever a sex scene starts, you can hear this "Gulp!' sound when
everybody swallows all at once," said Midori"I love that "Gulp!' It's
so sweet!"
Back in the hospital room, Midori aimed a stream of talk at her father
again, and he would either grunt in response or say nothingAround
eleven the wife of the man in the other bed came to change her
husband's pyjamas and peel fruit for him and so onShe had a round
face and seemed like a nice person, and she and Midori shared a lot of
small talkA nurse showed up with a new intravenous drip and talked
a little while with Midori
gucci indy bag and the wife before she leftI let my eyes
wander around the room and out the window to the power lines
Sparrows would turn up every now and then and perch on them
Midori talked to her father and wiped the sweat from his brow and
helped him spit phlegm into a tissue and chatted with the
neighbouring patient's wife and the nurse and sent an occasional
remark my way and checked the intravenous contraption
The doctor did his rounds at 110, so Midori and I stepped outside to
wait in the corridorWhen he came out, Midori asked him how her
father was doing
"Well, he's just come out of surgery, and we've got him on painkillers
so, well, he's pretty drained," said the doctor"I'll need another two or
three days to evaluate the results of the operationIf it went well, he'll
be OK, and if it didn't, we'll have to make some decisions at
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