- マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
447 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 13:50:38 ID:BV8Fio70 - though. You could put a skate key in my hand fifty years from now, in pitch dark
, and I'd still know what it is. She thanked me and all when I had it tightened
for her. She was a very nice, polite little kid. God, I love it when a kid's nic
e and polite when you tighten their skate for them or something. Most kids are.
They really are. I asked her if she'd care to have a hot chocolate or something
with me, but she said no, thank you. She said she had to meet her friend. Kids a
lways have to meet their friend. That kills me.
Even though it was Sunday and Phoebe wouldn't be there with her class or
anything, and even though it was so damp and lousy out, I walked all the way th
rough the park over to the Museum of Natural History. I knew that was the museum
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
472 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 14:10:02 ID:BV8Fio70 - So we went, and after they gave us our skates, they gave Sally this litt
le blue butt-twitcher of a dress to wear. She really did look damn good in it, t
hough. I save to admit it. And don't think she didn't know it. The kept walking
ahead of me, so that I'd see how cute her little ass looked. It did look pretty
cute, too. I have to admit it.
The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole godda
m rink. I mean the worst. And there were some lulus, too. Old Sally's ankles kep
t bending in till they were practically on the ice. They not only looked stupid
as hell, but they probably hurt like hell, too. I know mine did. Mine were killi
ng me. We must've looked gorgeous. And what made it worse, there were at least a
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
517 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 14:38:27 ID:BV8Fio70 - "Listen. Let's get one thing straight. I refuse to answer any typical Ca
ulfield questions tonight. When in hell are you going to grow up?"
I didn't say anything for a while. I let it drop for a while. Then old L
uce ordered another Martini and told the bartender to make it a lot dryer.
"Listen. How long you been going around with her, this sculpture babe?"
I asked him. I was really interested. "Did you know her when you were at Whooton
?"
"Hardly. She just arrived in this country a few months ago."
"She did? Where's she from?"
"She happens to be from Shanghai."
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
564 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:04:40 ID:BV8Fio70 - to take things away from God. This girl in my class's mother took us. Alice Holm
borg, She's my best friend. She's the only girl in the whole--"
"Wait a second, willya?" I said. "I'm asking you a question. Did they sa
y what time they'd be back, or didn't they?"
"No, but not till very late. Daddy took the car and everything so they w
ouldn't have to worry about trains. We have a radio in it now! Except that Mothe
r said nobody can play it when the car's in traffic."
I began to relax, sort of. I mean I finally quit worrying about whether
they'd catch me home or not. I figured the hell with it. If they did, they did.
You should've seen old Phoebe. She had on these blue pajamas with red el
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
583 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:16:09 ID:BV8Fio70 - in and locked the goddam door and tried to make him take back what he said, but
he wouldn't do it. So they started in on him. I won't even tell you what they d
id to him--it's too repulsive--but he still wouldn't take it back, old James Cas
tle. And you should've seen him. He was a skinny little weak-looking guy, with w
rists about as big as pencils. Finally, what he did, instead of taking back what
he said, he jumped out the window. I was in the shower and all, and even I coul
d hear him land outside. But I just thought something fell out the window, a rad
io or a desk or something, not a boy or anything. Then I heard everybody running
through the corridor and down the stairs, so I put on my bathrobe and I ran dow
nstairs too, and there was old James Castle laying right on the stone steps and
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
589 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:22:30 ID:BV8Fio70 - o do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congr
atulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybo
dy, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a ph
ony? The trouble is, you wouldn't."
I'm not too sure old Phoebe knew what the hell I was talking about. I me
an she's only a little child and all. But she was listening, at least. If somebo
dy at least listens, it's not too bad.
"Daddy's going to kill you. He's going to kill you," she said.
I wasn't listening, though. I was thinking about something else--somethi
ng crazy. "You know what I'd like to be?" I said. "You know what I'd like to be?
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
625 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:42:35 ID:BV8Fio70 - How's your mother, Holden?"
"She's fine, thanks. I haven't seen her too recently, but the last I--"
"Darling, if Holden needs anything, everything's in the linen closet. Th
e top shelf. I'm going to bed. I'm exhausted," Mrs. Antolini said. She looked it
, too. "Can you boys make up the couch by yourselves?"
"We'll take care of everything. You run along to bed," Mr. Antolini said
. He gave Mrs. Antolini a kiss and she said good-by to me and went in the bedroo
m. They were always kissing each other a lot in public.
I had part of a cup of coffee and about half of some cake that was as ha
rd as a rock. All old Mr. Antolini had was another highball, though. He makes th
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
630 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:46:01 ID:BV8Fio70 - morning, instead of now, but he was hot. People are mostly hot to have a discuss
ion when you're not.
"All right. Listen to me a minute now . . . I may not word this as memor
ably as I'd like to, but I'll write you a letter about it in a day or two. Then
you can get it all straight. But listen now, anyway." He started concentrating a
gain. Then he said, "This fall I think you're riding for--it's a special kind of
fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself
hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed
for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something th
eir own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environ
| - マイケル・グリーン（Michael Green）
637 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage]：2010/07/25(日) 16:49:54 ID:BV8Fio70 - "Yes, sir."
He didn't say anything again for quite a while. I don't know if you've e
ver done it, but it's sort of hard to sit around waiting for somebody to say som
ething when they're thinking and all. It really is. I kept trying not to yawn. I
t wasn't that I was bored or anything--I wasn't--but I was so damn sleepy all of
a sudden.
"Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along w
ith it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind
you have. What it'll fit and, maybe, what it won't. After a while, you'll have
an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing. For o
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