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  • 6/12/2025
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00:00Mr. Murphy drove with the resignation of the already dead.
00:08He imagined he felt the way Dylan Thomas did heading into the white horse to take the drink that would kill him.
00:14He knew what they were and what they were not.
00:30Hello, she said.
00:54I'm here.
00:55Alice thought immediately of a slaughtering lamb, though she couldn't be certain which of them was meant for sacrifice.
01:00Alice, he was outside.
01:06He was inside.
01:08It excites you, doesn't it?
01:11The surreptitiousness of it all.
01:21Mr. Murphy smiled wide, the lines around his mouth deepening into parentheses that framed his perfect lips into a punchline.
01:30Smoke drifted from her mouth with practice, cinematic effort.
01:36Is it more romantic for you that way?
01:44This is no romance.
01:48I'm sorry to disappoint you.
01:50Alice opened her mouth to say something, but the words fell away.
02:05Mr. Murphy loomed over her, his Cadillac eyes hungry and bored.
02:09I want you to read to me.
02:12Alice watched in slow motion as Mr. Murphy's tongue undulated when he spoke.
02:15Read it to me the way you read it to yourself.
02:19Pink tied against the bone shore of his teeth.
02:23Alice took the tattered Henry Miller paperback off the bedside table.
02:26And spread it open on the comforter of her bed.
02:33Page 13, he said, behind her.
02:36One hand slid up the front of her cotton dress.
02:41The other pointed to a sentence on the page.
02:44Begin.
02:46Here.
02:56Turn.
03:09Go there.
03:10Go there.
03:11Go there.
03:18Go ahead.
03:20The third one.

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