swallowing a painkiller if you were going to throw it right back up。 Have to use
your brain。 The celebrated Jack Torrance brain。 Arent you the fellow who once
was going to live by his wits? Jack Torrance; best…selling author。 Jack
Torrance; acclaimed playwright and winner of the New York Critics Circle Award。
John Torrance; man of letters; esteemed thinker; winner of the Pulitzer Prize at
seventy for his trenchant book of memoirs; My Life in the Twentieth Century。 All
any of that shit boiled down to was living by your wits。
Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are。
He put another Triscuit into his mouth and crunched it up。
What it really came down to; he supposed; was their lack of trust in him。
Their failure to believe that he knew what was best for them and how to get it。
His wife had tried to usurp him; first by fair
(sort of)
means; then by foul。 When her little hints and whining objections had been
overturned by his own well…reasoned arguments; she had turned his boy against
him; tried to kill him with a bottle; and then had locked him; of all places; in
the goddamned fucking pantry。
Still; a small interior voice nagged him。
(Yes but where did the liquor e from? Isnt that really the central point?
You know what happens when you drink; you know it from bitter experience。 When
you drink; you lose your wits。)
He hurled the box of Triscuits across the small room。 They struck a shelf of
canned goods and fell to the floor。 He looked at the box; wiped his lips with
his hand; and then looked at his watch。 It was almost six…thirty。 He had been in
here for hours。 His wife had locked him in here and hed been here for fucking
hours。
He could begin to sympathize with his father
The thing hed never asked himself; Jack realized now; was exactly what had
driven his daddy to drink in the first place。 And really 。。。 when you came
right down to what his old students had been pleased to call the nifty…gritty 。。。
hadnt it been the woman he was married to? A milksop sponge of a woman;
always dragging silently around the house with an expression of doomed martyrdom
on her face? A ball and chain around Daddys ankle? No; not ball and chain。 She
had never actively tried to make Daddy a prisoner; the way Wendy had done to
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