The Dog Log by Richard Lucas

Author:Richard Lucas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2019-07-12T07:25:27+00:00

January 10, 11:00 AM

I just got a text from Roxy. Totally out of the blue. Just two words: “Ubiquitous Zigzags.” That was one of our funny little phrases we used to send each other whenever either of us saw an Art Deco building around town.

We’d been to an architectural symposium put on by the Los Angeles Art Deco Society at the Egyptian Theater. Then later we took a fun tour of the old Art Deco buildings and landmarks downtown. The guide kept on saying, “And, of course, once again, you see the ubiquitous zigzags” with every design he discussed, and we’d try to keep from laughing. Zigzags are elemental in Art Deco stylings. Once you know that, you notice them everywhere in L.A.

Goddamn it, I miss her.

I don’t know what to think. These tiny bits of communication, and now a text that, to me, recalls how connected we were, right? Intended to make me smile? It has—but what the hell? She’s clearly thinking of me. It can’t just have been a spontaneous accident of fondness, merely temporal. It’s a message. She’s warming up. Her resentment, or anger, or disappointment, or whatever it was might be softening. This is fantastic. And it’s funny. She still has a sense of humor about us. This is excellent. What should I do? Ubiquitous zigzags!

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