The Anatomy School by Bernard Maclaverty

Author:Bernard Maclaverty [MacLaverty, Bernard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-36993-2
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2002-10-22T04:00:00+00:00

He hoped that Blaise would chicken out of stealing the exam papers. That way Martin would be in the clear. He had got into Blaise and Kavanagh’s good books for getting into Condor’s room and nicking the storeroom key but if it was Blaise who chickened out that would suit fine. There would be no more to be said. It would be one hell of a big relief. Maybe Blaise was all bluster. When it came to the crunch he might not be up to it. Martin imagined him coming along the corridor in the morning.

‘Well?’

‘It’s off. I got up last night but it was just too dangerous.’

‘Too bad.’

‘I don’t think we should go ahead with this. It’s too risky.

Martin would probably bluster a bit: ‘What the fuck did I risk my neck for — getting into Condor’s room?’ But after a while he could come down to a more mousy position and shrug and say ‘I suppose it suits me.’

Martin wondered if Kavanagh felt the way he did. But Kavanagh usually spoke out. He wouldn’t be mealy mouthed about it. He would have said something like, ‘We will proceed no further in this business, Mrs Macbeth. The whole thing’s a bad idea.’ Or could it be that he, too, was the undercow of Blaise, that he, too, was in thrall to him. Maybe Martin just imagined Kavanagh was strong willed, strong minded. Maybe Kavanagh was like Martin — do I dare to eat a peach? Maybe Kavanagh was the catcher of his falling dream. Attached to nothing.

He tried to hold his nose to warm it up — put a warm fingertip on each eyelid. It must have worked because he remembered nothing else until he woke in the morning with the words of his dreams repeating in his head, words which he was convinced would solve everything. Garabandy. Milkquistic. Fockuental.

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