Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer

Author:Rudolph Wurlitzer [Wurlitzer, Rudolph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780982015124
Google: 84CaPwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0982015127
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 1996-01-14T13:00:00+00:00

THERE ARE NO TREES. THE TOWN IS FURTHER AWAY THAN before, across a deep web of arroyos. I have been sleeping. It is late afternoon. There are eight or nine houses in the town, and a dirt road winds down from the mountain into the town. Two houses appear to have fallen in on themselves. There are three tepees in back of the town, halfway up the mountain. In back of the tepees are old machines, and in back of the machines are dark shadows which might be caves or excavations. I put my fist in front of my face but I can still see. It is very hot. The sky is too huge. I crawled to the rear of the ledge to hide the black bag under a rock. A rattlesnake slowly raised its head. I threw the bag at him and ran to the edge of the ledge. I’m there now In back of the ledge are twisted saw-toothed ridges. There must be a trail that Lockett followed. But I have lost the knack of recognizing a trail. Meridith and Lockett know I’m out here. Unless they’ve forgotten. They might have told someone I’m out here. But it isn’t like them to walk into a town and hand out information. They might have walked through the town without stopping and gone over the mountain. There might be a city over the mountain, or a ball park, or an airplane factory... There is no noise in the whole blown and eroded valley. I have to turn to the rear, to the small cavity in back of the ledge. From that hole I can look safely out at the ledge. I can sit low enough so that I won’t see the valley or the town. I can handle the mountain. I have a list of mountains to help out. The ledge needs smoothing out. There are rocks to move or think about moving and measurements to be paced out. There is a smaller, less exposed ledge a few hundred feet down, but it doesn’t have the beginnings of a cave. I need the beginnings of a cave. I must arrange the cans of food in alphabetical order and build protection from the sun. I must pace backward and forward. Never mind the snake. There never was a snake. I must find water. I must manage a few memories, now that the sky is so huge. I must burrow into rock, and to do that I need Nog... That’s an order. No, I rescind that. I don’t want to push. I’m not overeager. He’s coming along nicely. He appeared in the car and on the river. I haven’t forgotten his name. My speech and gestures are slower. I don’t have to get frantic. I don’t need those swift chopping motions with my left hand. I don’t pull at my ear as much or look too straight at anyone. I’m coming along. My eyes are wider, my walk looser, my feet more

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