another door。 The iron radiated a stuporous heat at them; and for some reason
Jack thought of a large; dozing cat。 Watson jingled his keys and whistled。
Lost your —
(When he went back into his study and saw Danny standing there; wearing
nothing but his training pants and a grin; a slow; red cloud of rage had
eclipsed Jacks reason。 It had seemed slow subjectively; inside his head; but it
must have all happened in less than a minute。 It only seemed slow the way some
dreams seem slow。 The bad ones。 Every door and drawer in his study seemed to
have been ransacked in the time he had been gone。 Closet; cupboards; the sliding
bookcase。 Every desk drawer yanked out to the stop。 His manuscript; the three…
act play he had been slowly developing from a novelette he had written seven
years ago as an under…graduate; was scattered all over the floor。 He had been
drinking a beer and doing the Act II corrections when Wendy said the phone was
for him; and Danny had poured the can of beer all over the pages。 Probably to
see it foam。 See it foam; see it foam; the words played over and over in his
mind like a single sick chord on an out…of…tune piano; pleting the circuit of
his rage。 He stepped deliberately toward his threeyear…old son; who was looking
up at him with that pleased grin; his pleasure at the job of work so
successfully and recently pleted in Daddys study; Danny began to say
something and that was when he had grabbed Dannys hand and bent it to make him
drop the typewriter eraser and the mechanical pencil he was clenching in it。
Danny had cried out a little 。。。 no 。。。 no 。。。 tell the truth 。。。 he
screamed。 It was all hard to remember through the fog of anger; the sick single
thump of that one Spike Jones chord。 Wendy somewhere; asking what was wrong。 Her
voice faint; damped by the inner mist。 This was between the two of them。 He had
whirled Danny around to spank him; his big adult fingers digging into the scant
meat of the boys forearm; meeting around it in a closed fist; and the snap of
the breaking bone had not been loud; not loud but it had been very loud; HUGE;
but not loud。 Just enough of a sound to slit through the red fog like an arrow —
but instead of letting in sunlight; that sound let in the dark clouds of shame
and remorse; the terror; the agonizing convulsion of the spirit。 A clean sound
with the past on one side of it and all the future on the other; a sound like a
breaking pencil lead or a small piece of kindling when you brought it down
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