Blue Suede Clues by Daniel Klein

Author:Daniel Klein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dean Street Press
Published: 2022-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

It was almost eleven o’clock before Elvis and Regis were back on the road again, heading for L.A. Elvis had signed his autograph for each of the guards—the ex-marine actually produced a little red autograph book—and then spent a few more minutes with Reardon discussing the possibility of casting Sidney Poitier as a death-row inmate. Elvis told him it was a fabulous idea, although this little charade was starting to make him feel kind of guilty.

Squirm’s confession had given Elvis a strange feeling, part puzzlement, part disgust. God knows, there weren’t any love songs out there about losing the desire to make love to the one you loved. No ballads about “rekindling the sexual fire,” no “Dress-up Game Rock.” Even if there were, he couldn’t see himself singing them. Love was a pure and beautiful thing, not a psychological problem some sex doctor fixed up with a bag of tricks.

“So tell me, Regis, what was Nanette to Squirm—Madonna or whore?” Elvis kept his eyes on the road.

“Sounds like he tried to make her into both for a while there,” Regis replied. “He wasn’t turned on by this person he’d grown to love as a genuine woman, so she had to pretend to be somebody else for that part. At least until he found himself Holly to be his concubine.”

Elvis shook his head. He wasn’t buying it.

“In Europe, it’s a way of life, at least for those who can afford it,” Regis went on. “A Frenchman has his wife for raising his family and going to church with. And then he’s got his mistress for the other. It’s the accepted thing.”

“Sounds like a lot of lying and cheating to me,” Elvis said.

“I know what you mean,” Regis said. “And that’s why I dropped out of the whole game.”

Elvis drove in silence for several minutes.

“How come you know so much about Dr. Freud?” Elvis said finally.

“At one point in my life I was trying to cure myself,” Regis said.

“Of what?”

“Confusion,” Regis replied.

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