— What what…
— Quick wake up we’re here they all got off boy that wiseass, hey wait we have to get off! Quick get your stuff…
— Leave it there I don’t…
— You can’t leave that hey! wait hold the case together…
— Here let me get your shoulder I don’t feel very…
— Hey wait we’re getting off! you okay hey? Boy it’s cold wait a second… he squared his armload sheltered behind We kick ass yours too as the train receded into the desolation of the evening, paused again at the breadloaf inscribed Father Haigt eat’s it to mash streamers of paper into the portfolio and tug at its zipper — boy if there’s one thing I really hate it’s the wind you know…? They reached the concrete steps, came down them. — You okay hey? I mean can’t you carry some of this stuff I have to stop at the, holy shit it’s closed look the candy store, it’s closed!
— Don’t want any candy where’s a cab.
— No I mean the paper I can’t get the paper, I mean now how are we suppose to we know what happened at that court thing and that underground…
— I don’t care what happened where’s a cab!
— There’s not any there’s not even buses hey wait up, I mean didn’t you hear what happened? where this same new bank from the city which took over they called Gottlieb’s loan which he couldn’t pay it off so they seize his Ace Transportation assets which that’s both his cabs and all these school buses I mean it’s this same bank that wait where you going…
— Where do you think I’m going I’m…
— No but wait up… leaves swirled behind him, rushed past in the street where the sweeping lights of a car hurled his shadow over the figure mounting the curb ahead — hey Bast? I mean it’s this here same new bank from the city can’t you even listen a minute! It’s this here new branch of one of these same banks that’s screwing us too I mean they never lose these banks don’t, I mean where we’re getting screwed Crawley’s getting screwed everybody’s getting screwed except these here banks they never get screwed, they’re always in there getting this percent of everything I mean I should have thought of it my… he stumbled, — I mean I got all this stuff I can’t hardly see where, hey…?
A car passed joining their shadows in a leap, flinging them aside to raise the shell of the Marine Memorial ahead in crumbling detail — I mean some bank getting some bank I should of thought of that by myself hey? Like where this newspaper just said the parent company I mean that’s me, how the parent is going after this SSS Savings and Loan with these big cash reserves that’s how I thought of it ljust saw it in the paper, like where the paper’s always saying the parent this the parent that I mean that’s me the parent! See I hardly got started hey once we get things fixed up I had all these plans… his teeth were chattering — I mean like banks we could have these different kind of banks like this regular bank and these blood banks these eye banks these bone what, where you going…
— Have to sit down I, I feel like I…
— Wait get back up here where there’s no wind hey… he stumbled against the crumbling edge of the Memorial’s shell — let me put this stuff down where we can wait you going to sit here a second?
— Yes I, I feel diz…
— Okay because these here tapes you got ljust remembered, I mean we can play them and boy this here nice attaché case I got you you really let it get busted up where’s my, I can’t hardly see what’s wait a second I left one in here…
— ca’s all about and holds everything together because nothing works unless, there’s something in it for somebody, so the…
— Hey this is a tape I made there’s this eighth grade at some orange place at New Jersey buying this here share of America where they wanted this here speech I thought you could, hey? you want to hear it?
— No!
— Okay we better do these others first anyway these batteries are real weak where’s your, when this car comes I can see what I’m doing they think they can screw me out of everything boy I hardly even got started what’s the, this thing’s suppose to fit right into wait I got it in backwards once we get things fixed up boy this whole health plan thing we franchise it out and that whole Endo deal when we find out how much all that goodwill is worth and like Wiles said we have this here friend at Chase Man there, listen…
— medicine capsules only cost Nobili a nickel each to make which their dates are like expiring we’d have to dump anyway for this lousy nickel deduction see but like they sell for a quarter so every one we donate we get this whole quarter charity deduction for a nick…
— Sit down hey these batteries are real weak you have to listen real…
— this here fifty percent tax bracket, see so every nickel capsule we give out we make this here ten cents net profowwwrr ja ach ja ich bin verlor…
— Hey what’s, it’s doing it again!
— Wait listen…!
— nein du bist erkoren…
— This singing you did this one too! Right in the I mean holy shit right in the middle of I’m talking about ouch! What’s let go my shoulder what’s ouch!
— Just listen! shut up for a minute sit still and listen!
— nein du hassest mich…!
— No but holy shit Bast! this here tape was…
— I don’t care what it was! I didn’t know I had it I forgot I’d even sit still! Now listen. Once, just once you’re going to listen to something that…
— No but ho…
— And stop saying holy shit! it’s all you, you want to hear holy you’re going to hear it wind the tape back, just once you’re going to keep quiet and listen to a piece of music by one of…
— No but look hey I’m cold I mean how can we sit out here in the dark and lis…
— I’m cold too! I’m cold dizzy sick at my stomach if I can sit here and listen to you talk about how much this goodwill is worth and this here friend at what makes you think we’ve got any friends anywhere! How much goodwill do you think we…
— No wait hey I mean holy shit I don’t mean where everybody’s crazy about us and all, see goodwill that means the excess of the purchase price over the value of these net tangible assets where they really screwed us on that Endo deal see so ouch!