Subdivision: A Novel by J. Robert Lennon

Author:J. Robert Lennon [Lennon, J. Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2021-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

The man turned to me. I could see now that he was quite young—in his early twenties. He was thin, perhaps dangerously so, and his curly hair was lank and mussed. He wore blue jeans and a stained white tee shirt.

“As you know,” he said, his emphasis suggesting that, in fact, I did not know, “classical mechanics tells us that a thrown ball lacking the energy to crash through a wall should bounce back. Right?”

“Of course,” I said.

To illustrate, the man reached into the bucket on the desk and pulled from it a very worn-looking, much-handled tennis ball. He held it up, meeting my gaze to make sure I saw it. Then, he threw it at the wall. It struck the brick surface, rebounded, and bounced once against the plywood covering the floor. The man caught the ball neatly in his right hand.

This action triggered another line of text on the laptop’s open window:

00038359 NO LEAKAGE DETECTED. BARRIER PERMEABILITY

PROBABILITY 0.000000000000017%.

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