“How well do you do with symbolism and cosmic irony, old friend?” “Thus far I’m doing well enough with lung and Freud,” Victor said. The scariest rumors clustered around reports that something had crash-landed in the woods, not far from where the men had reported the cigar-shaped craft hovering over the powerlines. Pete is holding out one finger, ticking it back and forth, looking past the moving finger at the ground. He could hear the chatter of helicopters, waxing and waning but always tending in that same direction.
“Sally, I know; I know. She holds up her purse. So much forest, so much wildlife, and not a few human beings — most of them at this time of year wearing orange. We also know that Russian fighters destroyed a grayboy ship over Siberia in 1974 .
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