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Two thousand dollar jackpot. “What would you like to know, Fred?” I looked at him levelly. Gus was getting more anti-social. The man had spent three years melting and slicing and sculpting kilometers of living ice—I couldn’t tellhow many—into a work of high art.

“It’s all right, Fred. I sat in that room smelling of mildewand stared at the cover of ELLISON WONDERLAND. ” “Let’s stop and eat at the first clean place we see,” the director said, thumbing his eyes to removethe sleep from them. It isn’t my woman, and I didn’t dothe job on her, and I need a D&C man.