![]() ![]() He turned all the way around again, and said, “The fish don’t go no place. I stopped having a conversation with him, if he was going to get so damn touchy about it. “How the hell should I know a stupid thing like that?” Old Horwitz turned all the way around and looked at me. Do you know, by any chance? I mean does somebody come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves – go south or something?” You’d think a prostitute and all would say “Like hell you are” or “Cut the crap” instead of “Like fun you are.” She didn’t care what the hell my name was, naturally. She never said thank you, either, when you offered her something. ![]() She had a tiny little wheeny-whiny voice. I sat down in the big chair, next to her, and offered her a cigarette. I think it was because she was young as hell. She crossed her legs and started jiggling this one foot up and down. Then she sort of sat down sideways on the chair that went with the desk in the room and started jiggling her foot up and down. It makes me so depressed I go crazy.She came in and took her coat off right away and sort of chucked it on the bed. I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Haas would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents. You should've seen the way he did with my roommate's parents. Except if some boy had little old funny-looking parents. On Sundays, for instance, old Haas went around shaking hands with everybody's parents when they drove up to school. Haas, that was the phoniest bastard I ever met in my life. For instance, they had this headmaster, Mr. “One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies.
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