ENGL 2027 Chapter : Linda McCarriston - A Castle In Lynn
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In the hometown tonight, in the quiet before sleep, a man strokes himself in the darkened theater of memory. Best old remembrance, he gets to play it as slow as he needs, as his hand, savvy tart of a million reruns, plays the tune, plays the parts: now hand is the hard bottom of the girl. Now hand is full of the full new breast. Square hand, cruel as a spade splits the green girlwood of her body. No one can take this from him now ever, though she is for years a mother and worn, and he is too old to force any again. His cap hangs on a peg by the door plaid wool of an elderly workingman"s park-bench decline. A man is king in his own castle, he can still say, having got what he wanted: in a lifetime of used ones, second-hand, one girl.
