The eternal footman by Morrow James 1947-

Author:Morrow, James, 1947- [Morrow, James, 1947-]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: God, Science fiction
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace
Published: 1999-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Inanna Unbending

The wet and gloomy morning of December 29 found Nora, Percy, and the rest of the Great Sumerian Circus on fabled Bourbon Street, moving amid swarms of gaudily costumed revelers, most of them sipping Hurricanes and bathtub-gin fizzes through red plastic straws inserted into sequined masks adorned with peacock feathers. Dixieland trumpet solos vibrated the winter air. Banjos sang; snare drums rattled; sybaritic shouts resounded among the ornate hotels, doorless restaurants, and iron-brocaded balconies. It made no sense, she decided. Carnival season always started on January 6, never before. Not until the Sumerians reached Jackson Square did she understand that a celebration even grander than Carnival was in progress, an everlasting Mardi Gras convened in decadent defiance of the skull. High above the stratosphere God enacted His perpetual laugh, and the city of New Orleans laughed back.

The entire French Quarter had become a red-light district. Everywhere Nora looked, streetwalkers unveiled their wares, as if Storyville, Louisiana's fabled experiment in legalized prostitution, had returned from history's mists to spread its ethos throughout the town. Given the scope of the bacchanal, Nora predicted a poor turnout for that evening's performance. Who had time for the Sumerian Circus's

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