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  〃Hello?〃 Al's voice; out of breath。 
  〃Go ahead;〃 the operator said dourly。 
  〃Al; this is Jack Torrance。〃 
  〃Jacky…boy!〃 Genuine pleasure。 〃How are you?〃 
  〃Good。 I just called to say thanks。 I got the job。 It's perfect。 If I can't 
finish that goddam play snowed in all winter; I'll never finish it。〃 
  〃You'll finish。〃 
  〃How are things?〃 Jack asked hesitantly。 
  〃Dry;〃 Al responded。 〃You?〃 
  〃As a bone。〃 
  〃Miss it much?〃 
  〃Every day。〃 
  Al laughed。 〃I know that scene。 But I don't know how you stayed dry after that 
Hatfield thing; Jack。 That was above and beyond。〃 
  〃I really bitched things up for myself;〃 he said evenly。 
  〃Oh; hell。 I'll have the Board around by spring。 Effinger's already saying 
they might have been too hasty。 And if that play es to something — 〃 
  〃Yes。 Listen; my boy's out in the car; Al。 He looks like he might be getting 
restless — 〃 
  〃Sure。 Understand。 You have a good winter up there; Jack。 Glad to help。〃 
  〃Thanks again; Al。〃 He hung up; closed his eyes in the hot booth; and again 
saw the crashing bike; the bobbing flashlight。 There had been a squib in the 
paper the next day; no more than a space…filler really; but the owner had not 
been named。 Why it had been out there in the night would always be a mystery to 
them; and perhaps that was as it should be。 
  He went back out to the car and gave Danny his slightly melted Baby Ruth。 
  〃Daddy?〃 


 
 
  〃What; doc?〃 
  Danny hesitated; looking at his father's abstracted face。 
  〃When I was waiting for you to e back from that hotel; I had a bad dream。 
Do you remember? When I fell asleep?〃 
  〃Um…hm。〃 
  But it was no good。 Daddy's mind was someplace else; not with him。 Thinking 
about the Bad Thing again。 
  (I dreamed that you hurt me; Daddy) 
  〃What was the dream; doc?〃 
  〃Nothing;〃 Danny said as they pulled out into the parking lot。 He put the maps 
back into the glove partment。 
  〃You sure?〃 
  〃Yes。〃 
  Jack gave his son a faint; troubled glance; and then his mind turned to his 
play。 
 
 
 
 
》 
 
 
NIGHT THOUGHTS 
 
 
  Love was over; and her man was sleeping beside her。 
  Her man。 
  She smiled a little in the darkness; his seed still trickling with slow warmth 
from between her slightly parted thighs; and her smile was both rueful and 
pleased; because the phrase her man summoned up a hundred feelings。 Each feeling 
examined alone was a bewilderment。 Together; in this darkness floating to sleep; 
they were like a distant blues tune heard in an almost deserted night club; 
melancholy but pleasing。 
 
    Lovin' you baby; is just like rollin' off a log; 
    But if I can't be your woman; I sure ain't goin' to be your dog。 
 
  Had that been Billie Holiday? Or someone more prosaic like Peggy Lee? Didn't 
matter。 It was low and torchy; and in the silence of her head it played 
mellowly; as if issuing from one of those old…fashioned jukeboxes; a Wurlitzer; 
perhaps; half an hour before closing。 
  Now; moving away from her consciousness; she wondered how many beds she had 
slept in with this man beside her。 They had met in college and had first made 
love in his apartment 。。。 that had been less than three months after her 
mother drove her from the house; told her never to e back; that if she wanted 
to go somewhere she could go to her father since she had been responsible for 
the divorce。 That bad been in 1970。 So long ago? A semester later they had moved 


 
 
in together; had found jobs for the summer; and had kept the apartment when 
their senior year began。 She remembered that bed the most clearly; a big double 
that sagged in the middle。 When they made love; the rusty box spring had counted 
the beats。 That fall she had finally managed to break from her mother。 Jack had 
helped her。 She wants to keep beating you; Jack had said。 The more times you 
phone her; the more times you crawl back begging forgiveness; the more she can 
beat you with your father。 It's good for her; Wendy; because she can go on 
making believe it was your fault。 But it's not good for you。 They had talked it 
over again and again in that bed; that year。 
  (Jack sitting up with the covers pooled around his waist; a cigarette burning 
between his fingers; looking her in the eye — he had a half…humorous; half… 
scowling way of doing that — telling her: She told you never to e back; right? 
Never to darken her door again; right? Then why doesn't she hang up the phone 
when she knows it's you? Why does she only tell you that you can't e in if 
I'm with you? Because she thinks I might cramp her style a little bit。 She wants 
to keep putting the thumbscrews right to you; baby。 You're a fool if you keep 
letting her do it。 She told you never to e back; so why don't you take her at 
her word? Give it a rest。 And at last she'd seen it his way。) 
  It had been Jack's idea to separate for a while — to get perspective on the 
relationship; he said。 She had been afraid he had bee interested in someone 
else。 Later she found it wasn't so。 They were together again in the spring and 
he asked her if she had been to see her father。 She had jumped as if he'd struck 
her with a quirt。 
  How did you know that? 
  The Shadow knows。 
  Have you been spying on me? 
  And his impatient laughter; which had always made her feel so awkward — as if 
she were eight and he was able to see her motivations more clearly than she。 
  You needed time; Wendy。 
  For what? 
  I guess 。。。 to see which one of us you wanted to marry。 
  Jack; what are you saying? 
  I think I'm proposing marriage。 
  The wedding。 Her father had been there; her mother had not been。 She 
discovered she could live with that; if she had Jack。 Then Danny had e; her 
fine son。 
  That had been the best year; the best bed。 After Danny was born; Jack had 
gotten her a job typing for half a dozen English Department profs — quizzes; 
exams; class syllabi; study notes; reading lists。 She ended up tvping a novel 
for one of them; a novel that never got published 。。。 much to Jack's very 
irreverent and very private glee。 The job was good for forty a week; and 
skyrocketed all the way up to sixty during the two months she spent typing the 
unsuccessful novel。 They had their first car; a five…year…old Buick with a baby 
seat in the middle。 Bright; upwardly mobile young marrieds。 Danny forced a 
reconciliation between her and her mother; a reconciliation that was always 
tense and never happy; but a reconciliation all the same。 When she took Danny to 
the house; she went without Jack。 And she didn't tell Jack that her mother 
always remade Danny's diapers; frowned over his formula; could always spot the 


 
 
accusatory first signs of a rash on the baby's bottom or privates。 Her mother 
never said anything overtly; but the message came through anyway: the price she 
had begun to pay (and maybe always would) for the reconciliation was the feeling 
that she was an inadequate mother。 It was her mother's way of keeping the 
thumbscrews handy。 
  During the days Wendy would stay home and housewife; feeding Danny his bottles 
in the sunwashed kitchen of the four…room second…story apartment; playing her 
records on the battered portable stereo she had had since high school。 Jack 
would e home at three (or at two if he felt he could cut his last class); and 
while Danny slept he would lead her into the bedroom and fears of inadequacy 
would be erased。 
  At night while she typed; he would do his writing and his assignments。 In 
those days she sometimes came out of the bedroom where the typewriter was to 
find both of them asleep on the studio couch; Jack wearing nothing but his 
underpants; Danny sprawled fortably on her husband's chest with his thumb in 
his mouth。 She would put Danny in his crib; then read whatever Jack had written 
that night before waking him up enough to e to bed。 
  The best bed; the best year。 
 
                 Sun gonna shine in my backyard someday 。。。 
 
  In those days; Jack's drinking had still been well in hand。 On Saturday nights 
a bunch of his fellow students would drop over and there would be a case of beer 
and discussions in which she seldom took part because her field had been 
sociology and his was English: arguments over whether Pepys's diaries were 
literature or history; discussions of Charles Olson's poetry; sometimes the 
reading of works in progress。 Those and a hundred others。 No; a thousand。 She 
felt no real urge to take part; it was enough to sit in her rocking chair beside 
Jack; who sat cross…legged on the floor; one hand holding a beer; the other 
gently cupping her calf or braceleting her ankle。 
  The petition at UNH had been fierce; and Jack carried an extra burden in 
his writing。 He put in at least an hour at it every night。 It was his routine。 
The Saturday sessions were necessary therapy。 They let something out of him that 
might otherwise have swelled and swelled until he burst。 
  At the end of his grad work he had landed the job at Stovington; mostly on the 
strength of his stories — four of them published at that time; one of them in 
Esquire。 She remembered that day clearly enough; i

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