You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

Author:Dave Eggers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Philanthropists, Literary, Death, Psychological fiction, Humorous, Bereavement, Fiction, Grief, Family & Relationships, Loss (Psychology), Americans - Foreign countries, Americans, Psychological, Foreign countries, Humorous fiction, Male friendship, General
ISBN: 9781400033546
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2003-06-30T10:00:00+00:00

We were at the car. Hand had dragged me off the ground and now he rested his palms on the roof, and his chin on the backs of his hands, atop one another.

“I’ll drive,” he said.

“No, that’s okay,” I said.

“I want to. Just tell me for real that you want none of this money when we’re done.”

“None.”

“Because I believe that you’d do it. If that’s what you’re proving—that you’d do it—then I believe you.”

“Not the point.”

“Fine.”

“I’ll drive,” I said.

“No,” Hand said. “I have another idea first.”

In a few seconds Hand was in a cab. There was a long line of cabs waiting for straggling tourists, and Hand had gotten into one. I followed him in.

Hand directed the driver around the cul-de-sac and back to our car. The ride took about eleven seconds. We stopped.

“Here?” the cabbie said.

“Yes.”

“Yes? Here?”

“Yes.”

The cabbie laughed. We gave him an American fifty.

As my face dried and cooled and my breath evened, we did this three more times. He got in another cab immediately and had him drive us around the cul-de-sac and gave him $80 in dirham. It was great. Once we went around the square, once the length of three cars. Each time we paid them extravagantly, each time they took it knowing we knew what we were doing. The cabbies, in contrast to the merchant, knew what was what, knew that none of it really meant anything, or meant everything but in a way we wouldn’t ever really understand. Each drove off grinning. Comrades!

The bike boys rode by again.

“Faggots,” they said.

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