Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers

Author:Richard Powers [Powers, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781446413388
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1999-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

It stunned Spiegel: the success rate, the frequency and vigor, the beauty of the conquests, their utter willingness to disappear cleanly and completely afterward, when the mutual projections dissolved. Like nothing he’d ever thought possible. Stevie could not say what drove Ted’s feats of appetite. Surely the man couldn’t need any reassurance he didn’t already possess. There seemed as little sport in the conquests as in the repetitive handball trouncings.

“Know what I like best about twelve-tone music?” Ted told Steve, as they looked over the reams of pencil annotations for his infinitesimally advancing octet. Pure Zimmerman: the annotations swelled while the notes stood still. “The appreciative female audiences who are so intent on distracting you from it.”

Those appreciative audiences were sufficiently distracting to keep the music itself from ever materializing. Appetite against appetite, notes had little hope against skin tones. “Don’t know about you and verse, buddy boy. But women are a great and mysterious motivator to me.”

Adie had been right. The man was a fun lover. And all his endless, absorbent energies were but instruments to that manic end.

If it bothered Adie, she never showed it. If she retaliated with her own men, she did it so discreetly that Spiegel never knew. One night she came into Steve’s room and lay on his bed, sketching into a tablet she held upon her knees while he sat in the bay window chair slogging through Derrida’s Of Grammatology. He put the book down and moved to lie next to her. She draped her left hand on his head, still sketching with her right, a portrait that went futurist, once the subject abandoned it.

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