Jeg holdt meget af Anni og af Bruno og andre af de rare mennesker, der røg hash. Men jeg kunne ikke drømme om, at bede dem om at skrive deres erindringer, en beskrivelse af deres daglige tilværelse eller deres filosofiske overvejelser. Det kunne jeg ikke, fordi jeg forudså, at resultatet ville ligne denne bog.
Jeg kæmpede mig igennem bogen, men den mangler den menneskelighed, som gjorde, at jeg holdt af de omtalte virkelige personer.
Der altså ingen grund til at læse den. Citaterne skal bare belyse niveauet. Citatet fra side 312 er dog godt.
Her shirt said "God Is Coming and She Is Pissed." 45
"What time is the party?"
"Eight o'clock. I don't want to get there before eight-thirty, though. And if he's with another girl when we walk in, we walk out. But I'll bet he isn't. I'll bet he's waiting for me.'
"How can you be se self-assured?"
"Because I know I look good," Angela said. 70
It was someone named Bobby, whom she didn't know, who said he was an old friend of Spangle's from the Cambridge and Vermont days and wanted to know if Spangle wanted to come to a party at a waterfall in New Hampshire. She told him that Spangle was in Madrid. He told her that he was going to be going to Africa in September. After they had finished talking, he said: "I haven't called the wrong number, have I? I really wanted to get in touch with Spangle. I haven't seen him since 1972. Last week I called a wrong number - a restaurant, to make a reservation - and they took my name and number and everything, and I'd never reached the goddamn place. I went to the restaurant and we couldn't eat dinner. My girlfriend was with me," he said. "We're going to Africa together." 189
"You could call before you come over."
"But I never even thought about that. I think of this as home."
"It's my home. Your home is in Connecticut. Or Rye. Wherever you want to say it is."
"It's here," he said, balling up a pillow. "It's here, whatever you say." He threw the pillow, hard. It tipped over an empty bottle - a ginger-ale bottle with cigarette butts in it He stared at the chaos of the room. 205
Was it her mind? She always ended up with men who talked faster than she did,
even if they didn't think faster. 312
Orla Jordal, 2007
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