The Sculptor by Michael Aronovitz
Author:Michael Aronovitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949102543
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2022-02-14T00:00:00+00:00
Connor Mullin was no longer smiling. He walked slowly across the room.
He sat down in his motherâs writing chair.
And started to speed-read.
CHAPTER 15
SORDID CONCLUSIONS
Connor Mullin hadnât moved except to click the mouse. There was a small puddle that had gathered under the chair, heâd seen it out of the corner of his eye spreading right, but it hadnât fully registered. His clothes had stiffened on himâcreased, cold dead-weightâbut the inner side of his left leg felt warm. In a vague way he knew heâd urinated on himself and from a great distance, it seemed, there was the question of whether any of the piss had made it down to the rainwater on the hardwood, but it was difficult to connect these trivial things.
The world had become this manifesto, this confession ⦠this piece of misdirection that was meant to have the police and the Feds spending endless man-hours chasing down a manufactured âcriminalâ while Professor Becky Mullin sat back in her messy room, in her weirdo house, laughing up her sleeve. It made a sick sort of sense. She had direct, personal access to any number of college coeds through her classes of course, but more importantly, her assigned conferences that started out as teaching functions, all subject/predicate bullshit, but soon turned into her favorite thing, a therapy session in disguise, as these fragile, naïve girls opened up and drew out in detail how they patterned their lives.
God, how many times had she rehashed the sob stories, describing the way so many of these freshman girls came to her office early September, gliding in with their short-shorts, tight blouses, perfect hair, and French manicures, all initially presenting themselves with an air of maturity and confidence, yet usually breaking down before the second paragraph of their first compare/ contrast essays, spilling about their impossible class schedules, their haphazard study habits, their crazy social calendars, and the hours typically spent in the cafeteria versus the library, the lounge versus the Learning Commons ⦠the specific slots they saved for âme-timeâ and where specifically they crept off to spend it ⦠the dorm-visitor restrictions, the way the laundry machines didnât work sometimes and where you had to go to get a load done, and how much they missed their dads and their mommies, and the apple tree out the back window, and their pet cat and their best friend Kristen, or Addy, or Brittany or Elena (pronounced Ellen-ahh), and the way some asshole above them kept dribbling a basketball on the floor at all hours of the night, and that some of the boys were like high school all over again but bolder and drunker and a few of them handsomer, and a crowd of them on floor three had a fight club, and that most other girls could be hysterically funny and then vicious and critical, and we all make brands for ourselves on Instagram, some of them slutty, but whatâs a girl to do ⦠and this is when we tend
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