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Fact of the Act Page 7:
Everything clean, simple, free of pretense, at least until a snippet of poetry
scampered into the fantasy � Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the
shadow � and she had to laugh, because she had no idea why the quote had
come to her or what was its source.
She had to ask her husband,
beside her in bed watching the Weather Channel with its meteorologist who seemed
to have been pregnant for two or three years, her profiled stomach so enormous
she must be having triplets. Her husband has never used a computer and is thus
unlikely to embark on an email romance, she reassured herself as he left the
room, climbed back into bed with Eliot and recited from "The Hollow Men,"
deadpan:
Between the desire
And the spasm �
Falls the Shadow
� and she laughed,
delighted. She showed him the inscription in the book, given to her as a
twenty-first birthday present by an old boyfriend whose name her husband knew,
as he knew virtually everything about her, and she was flooded with raw love for
him.
Sweetheart, I would email, suggest that we wait, but there are no cancellations,
no exchanges, besides I have promised to honor and obey our blackout, knowing �
as you might know too, on the other side of the hub city � that not the fact of
the act, but its anticipation, is the best part.
Between the "you have
mail" logo
And the actual mail
Falls the Shadow
Yes indeedy. Between the
desire and the spasm: nice place to visit. If only a girl could live in that
imaginary hotel room, hands slowly approaching.
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