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shirt undone? A place where both she and Danny were excluded and the boogie went 
on endlessly? 
  Wendy was worried about him; the old; helpless worry that she had hoped was 
behind her forever in Vermont; as if worry could somehow not cross state lines。 
She didn't like what the Overlook seemed to be doing to Jack and Danny。 
  The most frightening thing; vaporous and unmentioned; perhaps unmentionable; 
was that all of Jack's drinking symptoms had e back; one by one 。。。 all but 
the drink itself。 The constant wiping of the lips with hand or handkerchief; as 
if to rid them of excess moisture。 Long pauses at the typewriter; more balls of 
paper in the wastebasket。 There had been a bottle of Excedrin on the telephone 
table tonight after Al had called him; but no water glass。 He had been chewing 
them again。 He got irritated over little things。 He would unconsciously start 
snapping his fingers in a nervous rhythm when things got too quiet。 Increased 
profanity。 She had begun to worry about his temper; too。 It would almost e as 
a relief if he would lose it; blow off steam; in much the same way that he went 
down to the basement first thing in the morning and last thing at night to dump 
the press on the boiler。 It would almost be good to see him curse and kick a 
chair across the room or slam a door。 But those things; always an integral part 
of his temperament; had almost wholly ceased。 Yet she had the feeling that Jack 
was more and more often angry with her or Danny; but was refusing to let it out。 
The boiler had a pressure gauge: old; cracked; clotted with grease; but still 
workable。 Jack had none。 She had never been able to read him very well。 Danny 
could; but Danny wasn't talking。 
  And the call from Al。 At about the same time it had e; Danny had lost all 
interest in the story they had been reading。 He left her to sit by the fire and 
crossed to the main desk where Jack had constructed a roadway for his matchbox 
cars and trucks。 The Violent Violet Volkswagen was there and Danny had begun to 
push it rapidly back and forth。 Pretending to read her own book but actually 
looking at Danny over the top of it; she had seen an odd amalgam of the ways she 
and Jack expressed anxiety。 The wiping of the lips。 Running both hands nervously 
through his hair; as she had done while waiting for Jack to e home from his 


 
 
round of the bars。 She couldn't believe Al had called just to 〃ask how things 
were going。〃 If you wanted to shoot the bull; you called Al。 When Al called you; 
that was business。 
  Later; when she had e back downstairs; she had found Danny curled up by the 
fire again; reading the second…grade…primer adventures of Joe and Rachel at the 
circus with their daddy in plete; absorbed attention。 The fidgety distraction 
had pletely disappeared。 Watching him; she had been struck again by the eerie 
certainty that Danny knew more and understood more than there was room for in 
Dr。 (〃Just call me Bill〃) Edmonds's philosophy。 
  〃Hey; time for bed; doc;〃 she'd said。 
  〃Yeah; okay。〃 He marked his place in the book and stood up。 
  〃Wash up and brush your teeth。〃 
  〃Okay。〃 
  〃Don't forget to use the floss。〃 
  〃I won't。〃 
  They stood side by side for a moment; watching the wax and wane of the coals 
of the fire。 Most of the lobby was chilly and drafty; but this circle around the 
fireplace was magically warm; and hard to leave。 
  〃It was Uncle Al on the phone;〃 she said casually。 
  〃Oh yeah?〃 Totally unsurprised。 
  〃I wonder if Uncle Al was mad at Daddy;〃 she said; still casually。 
  〃Yeah; he sure was;〃 Danny said; still watching the fire。 〃He didn't want 
Daddy to write the book。〃 
  〃What book; Danny?〃 
  〃About the hotel。〃 
  The question framed on her lips was one she and Jack had asked Danny a 
thousand times: How do you know that? She hadn't asked him。 She didn't want to 
upset him before bed; or make him aware that they were casually discussing his 
knowledge of things he had no way of knowing at all。 And he did know; she was 
convinced of that。 Dr。 Edmonds's patter about inductive reasoning and 
subconscious logic was just that: patter。 Her sister 。。。 how had Danny known 
she was thinking about Aileen in the waiting room that day? And 
  (I dreamed Daddy had an accident。) 
  She shook her head; as if to clear it。 〃Go wash up; doc。〃 
  〃Okay。〃 He ran up the stairs toward their quarters。 Frowning; she had gone 
into the kitchen to warm Jack's milk in a saucepan。 
  And now; lying wakeful in her bed and listening to her husband's breathing and 
the wind outside (miraculously; they'd had only another flurry that afternoon; 
still no heavy snow); she let her mind turn fully to her lovely; troubling son; 
born with a caul over his face; a simple tissue of membrane that doctors saw 
perhaps once in every seven hundred births; a tissue that the old wives' tales 
said betokened the second sight。 
  She decided that it was time to talk to Danny about the Overlook 。。。 and 
high time she tried to get Danny to talk to her。 Tomorrow。 For sure。 The two of 
them would be going down to the Sidewinder Public Library to see if they could 
get him some second…grade…level books on an extended loan through the winter; 
and she would talk to him。 And frankly。 With that thought she felt a little 
easier; and at last began to drift toward sleep。 


 
 
 
                                     * * * 
 
  Danny lay awake in his bedroom; eyes open; left arm encircling his aged and 
slightly worse…for…wear Pooh (Pooh had lost one shoe…button eye and was oozing 
stuffing from half a dozen sprung seams); listening to his parents sleep in 
their bedroom。 He felt as if he were standing unwilling guard over them。 The 
nights were the worst of all。 He hated the nights and the constant howl of the 
wind around the west side of the hotel。 
  His glider floated overhead from a string。 On his bureau the VW model; brought 
up from the roadway setup downstairs; glowed a dimly fluorescent purple。 His 
books were in the bookcase; his coloring books on the desk。 A place for 
everything and everything in its place。 Mommy said。 Then you know where it is 
when you want it。 But now things had been misplaced。 Things were missing。 Worse 
still; things had been added; things you couldn't quite see; like in one of 
those pictures that said CAN YOU SEE THE INDIANS? And if you strained and 
squinted; you could see some of them  the thing you had taken for a cactus at 
first glance was really a brave with a knife clamped in his teeth; and there 
were others hiding in the rocks; and you could even see one of their evil; 
merciless faces peering through the spokes of a covered wagon wheel。 But you 
could never see all of them; and that was what made you uneasy。 Because it was 
the ones you couldn't see that would sneak up behind you; a tomahawk in one hand 
and a scalping knife in the other 。。。 
  He shifted uneasily in his bed; his eyes searching out the forting glow of 
the night light。 Things were worse here。 He knew that much for sure。 At first 
they hadn't been so bad; but little by little 。。。 his daddy thought about 
drinking a lot more。 Sometimes he was angry at Mommy and didn't know why。 He 
went around wiping his lips with his handkerchief and his eyes were far away and 
cloudy。 Mommy was worried about him and Danny; too。 He didn't have to shine into 
her to know that; it had been in the anxious way she had questioned him on the 
day the fire hose had seemed to turn into a snake。 Mr。 Hallorann said he thought 
all mothers could shine a little bit; and she had known on that day that 
something had happened。 But not what。 
  He had almost told her; but a couple of things had held him back。 He knew that 
the doctor in Sidewinder had dismissed Tony and the things that Tony showed him 
as perfectly 
  (well almost) 
  normal。 His mother might not believe him if he told her about the hose。 Worse; 
she might believe him in the wrong way; might think he was LOSING HIS MARBLES。 
He understood a little about LOSING YOUR MARBLES; not as much as he did about 
GETTING A BABY; which his mommy had explained to him the year before at some 
length; but enough。 
  Once; at nursery school; his friend Scott had pointed out a boy named Robin 
Stenger; who was moping around the swings with a face almost long enough to step 
on。 Robin's father taught arithmetic at Daddy's school; and Scott's daddy taught 
history there。 Most of the kids at the nursery school were associated either 
with Stovington Prep or with the small IBM plant just outside of town。 The prep 
kids chummed in one group; the IBM kids in another。 There were cross… 


 
 
friendships; of course; but it was natural enough for the kids whose fathers 
knew each other to more or less stick together。 When there was an adult scandal 
in one group; it almost always filtered down to the children in some wildly 
mutated form or other; but it rarely jumped to the other group。 
  He and Scotty were sitting in the play rocketship when Scotty jerked his thumb 
at Robin and said: 〃You know that kid?〃 
  〃Yeah;〃 Danny said。 
  Scott leaned forward。 〃His dad LOST HIS MARBLES last night。 T

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