copious, desolate tears we all
knew now to be crocodile. And
a married couple, the young
executive and his wife, glared
poison darts at one another
after having betrayed a marked
reversal of the expected ratio of
premarital experience between
male and female. The Wellesley
girl, poor thing, was the most
wilted one of all, having bared
her soul to the company and
found nothing in it worth bar–
ing.
Corso's diabolic design now
became apparent. He had
covertly engineered the entire
show, and gotten precisely the
results he wanted. From his
elevated perch he surveyed the
limp and naked puppets with
an exultant, evil-genius grin.
My last recollection of the
voyage, and Corso, was of the
morning we sailed into New
York Harbor. It was dawn of a
cloudless December day; the
skyline was etched in grey, a
soft, enveloping grey with a
glimmer of pink around the
edges. It was a benevolent grey,
an anaesthetic grey which
smoothed over all sharp angles
and erased the sting from the
skyscraper spires. One felt the
bold exhilaration of a thief
about to plunder the treasured
cove while the fierce dragon
slept. Then I heard the whining
lament from the stern of the
ship.
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