Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis

Author:Brett Easton Ellis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-01-08T13:27:05.187000+00:00

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�I dressed in a suit for parent/teacher night. I looked responsible. I was a concerned adult who yearned for news about his child�s academic progress. The following is the dialogue I wrote for the bedroom scene that night, but which Jayne refused to play and rewrote.

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��What should I wear?� I asked.

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�After a long pause. �I think a smile should be enough.�

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��So I can go as the naked grinning idiot?�

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�Muttered, barely audible: �Al you have to do is nod and smile for ten minutes in front of a few teachers and meet the principal. Can you handle that without freaking? Or puling out a gun?�

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�Apologeticaly: �I�l try.�

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��Stop smirking.�

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�Jayne conferred with Marta about what time we would be returning home.

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�Jayne did not seem to realize how seriously I was taking things.

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�We took the Range Rover and drove to the school in silence except when Jayne told me that we were seeing Dr. Faheida tomorrow night. I refrained from asking why we weren�t going at our usual time on Wednesday, because in the dream it no longer mattered.

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�At Buckley, security guards were everywhere. They stood at the gates, inspecting cars with flashlights while checking names on their lists. At the valet parking, more security guards�some armed�insisted on seeing photo IDs. The entire student body of Buckley, from nursery school through twelfth grade, amounted only to

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