Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus

Author:Allan Gurganus [Gurganus, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307764133
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

The left end read, in her Nazi fantasy mode: WE HAVE WAYS OF BREAKING YOU, YOUR FINGERS, YOU WILL SUFFER TERRIBLY AND NEVER PAINT AGAIN, NOT EVEN WITH YOUR LI’L FLIPPER-STUMPS, LOVE, THE SS.

“You are so sick!” Her head butted my side. “Even so, I can work around these. I like your drippings, Jackson. First marks are always the hardest ones for me to make. So, even yours’ll do.”

“One last thing. Get your pretty little blotted ass down here. Now place your hand directly beside mine front-and-center. I’ll trace yellow around yours, no, don’t move it yet, I missed most of the pinkie. This is permanent. Look, I’m putting a ring on your hand, a yellow-gold ring. I have taken your hand … not in marriage but in play-like. —Here, how big an ole diamond you want?”

“Bigger than you got.”

“Look. An apple, eighty carats. —Now, do you believe I love you?”

“Some.” She nodded, already squinting toward the fumey canvas, suddenly primed to be only alone with it. “On alternate Mondays. —No hard feelings but … get out?”

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