Page 152

| ij \ ing te cennect: with a changing attitudeg Animal had cecklifted ‘his headj neck, and left: ear back }ust—a7 +idbitrreacting to Pranksters: now seriously buliged* eye lock going inte a streight foray "Animal, here wesit on the-beashs Each night. the- ocean rolls ‘back a: junkyard of unprocessed! film,’ The: glamour: is genes" and ‘at that moment: Prankster stood! up screaming’) "but I lave-the negatives!" He cuped' his -palix and ‘fingers ssix inches im front of his eyess'. His -veins-were-tighty and ‘big Furpioy am the yellow :lanterm light: glowed) His face: became: cone- . terted te the exact. feelings: ix his:belly, but asche> began agai te speak, his facial form and ‘spoken: tone , unfolidd from tenseness:sback to the natural presense - wher with: a friemi' ; "Tiem holding my own face im my hand, with my fine - . cerentittet up Behind’ my: ears: and ” jaw oe Bloom au Stein ds passed. uy palinj' The layers ofeskin! ang peeling away and new I see -myy sliull’ and* bones" Pe srliw the same grip) and: pitetied’ like a baseball, what he had'said'was:the structure: of lis -ekeFtoned' face tok cares’ ward the wood wall behind ‘Animal{’ But. it-didn'4-maltes 4 /f uff of arsouniy S © itnost have vawished, He let. his arms:fall and’ his: legsscrossed' back , i