Tales of the Out & the Gone by Imamu Amiri Baraka

Author:Imamu Amiri Baraka [Baraka, Imamu Amiri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: ebook, Speculative Fiction, book
ISBN: 9781933354125
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2007-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

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But the aggravation was being replaced now by something else, because the chauffeur was asking him to respond. In effect, for him to be someone. Why couldn’t he remember? Perhaps he should go straight to the doctor. Thank god for the chauffeur, after all. He, the chauffeur, knew who LC was. Indeed, on the leather envelope at his side (which his left hand nervously covered) were the initials in slight, elegant gold. LC. And the chauffeur knew what these initials stood for. He knew who he, LC, was. He even had some knowledge of his schedule, where he, LC, was supposed to be going. “Follow the schedule. That’s it.” This was soft, but it rose as he repeated, “Yes, by all means, follow the schedule.”

The car slid smoothly away from the curb. The chauffeur wheeled it slowly up Madison Avenue without comment. At LC’s fingertips were control buttons. He pushed one on the far right, and quiet music rolled into the back. It was made by a violinist and … what was that … a saxophonist, it seemed. He did not know who it was. Drums and bass came in seamlessly as the sounds throbbed through the car in gentle harmonies. It pulled at him very softly. He rather liked it, but had no idea whose music it was.

As the car rolled up Madison, LC pulled at the leather envelope and picked it up. It was obvious that it belonged to him the way the rest of these things (or the rest of this situation) did. But he’d been too caught in wonder, blank wonder, and an aggravation that perhaps had now turned the corner toward something more stark. As the car took a right turn, he finally drew the envelope up fully into his hands and opened it. There was only a single sheet of paper and a typed schedule on it. At the top of the paper in gold lettering, Close Securities- LC. Directly beneath this title, the heading, Schedule: Sept. 1. The schedule, his, read:

12pm Bank—Mr. R.

2pm Office—Briefing

4pm Les Arouilles(?)

6pm Home

11pm Depart Watercrest Port for B.

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