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best smiles. Ken Maynard in
Bullwhip Justice an
The Demolished Man.
He kept smiling, as if he d really put one over on me. I looked at him with
disbelief.
You re kidding!
I said, delighted. Bester s
The Demolished Man?
He nodded his head, delighted at my being delighted. He knew it was one of my
favorite books. Oh, that s super!
Super duper,
he said.
Who s in it?
Franchot Tone, Evelyn Keyes, Lionel Barrymore and Elisha Cook, Jr. He was
much more knowledgeable about movie actors than I d ever been. He could name
the
character actors in any movie he d ever seen. Even the crowd scenes.
And cartoons? I asked.
Three of em: a
Little Lulu, Donald Duck a and a
Bugs Bunny.
An a
Pete Smith
Specialty an a Lew Lehr
Monkeys is da -r-r-r-aziest Peoples.
C
Oh boy! I said. I was grinning from ear to ear. And then I looked down and
saw the pad of purchase order forms on the seat. I d forgotten to drop it off
at the store.
Gotta stop by the Center, I said. Gotta drop off something. It ll only take
a minute.
Okay, Jeffty said. But we won t be late, will we?
Not on your tintype, kiddo, I said.
When I pulled into the parking lot behind the Center, he decided to come in
with me and we d walk over to the theater. It s not a large town. There are
only two movie houses, the
Utopia and the Lyric. We were going to the Utopia and it was only three blocks
from the
Center.
I walked into the store with the pad of forms, and it was bedlam. David and
Jan were handling two customers each, and there were people standing around
waiting to be helped.
Jan turned a look on me and her face was a horror-mask of pleading. David was
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running from the stockroom to the showroom and all he could murmur as he
whipped past was Help! and then he was gone.
Jeffty, I said, crouching down, listen, give me a few minutes. Jan and
David are in trouble with al: these people. We won t be late, I promise. Just
let me get rid of a couple of these customers. He looked nervous, but nodded
okay.
I motioned to a chair and said, Just sit down for a while and I ll be right
with you.
He went to the chair, good as you please, though he knew what was happening,
and he sat down.
I started taking care of people who wanted color television sets. This was the
first really substantial batch of units we d gotten in-color television was
only now becoming reasonably priced and this was Sony s first promotion--and
it was bonanza time for me. I
could see paying off the loan and being out in front for the first time with
the Center. It was business.
In my world, good business comes first.
Jeffty sat there and stared at the wall. Let me tell you about the wall.
Stanchion and bracket designs had been rigged from floor to within two feet of
the ceiling. Television sets had been stacked artfully on the wall.
Thirty-three television sets. All playing at the same time. Black and white,
color, little ones, big ones, all going at the same time.
Jeffty sat and watched thirty-three television sets, on a Saturday afternoon.
We can pick up a total of thirteen channels including the UHF educational
stations. Golf was on one channel; baseball was on a second; celebrity bowling
was on a third; the fourth channel was a religious seminar; a teenage dance
show was on the fifth; the sixth was a rerun of a situation comedy; the
seventh was a rerun of a police show; eighth was a nature program showing a
man flycasting endlessly; ninth was news and conversation; tenth was a stock
car race;
eleventh was a man doing logarithms on a blackboard; twelfth was a woman in a
leotard doing sitting-up exercises; and on the thirteenth channel was a badly
animated cartoon show in Spanish. All but six of the shows were repeated on
three sets. Jeffty sat and watched that wall of television on a Saturday
afternoon while I sold as fast and as hard as I could, to pay back my Aunt
Patricia and stay in touch with my world. It was business.
I should have known better. I should have understood about the present and the
way it kills the past. But I was selling with both hands. And when I finally [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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best smiles. Ken Maynard in
Bullwhip Justice an
The Demolished Man.
He kept smiling, as if he d really put one over on me. I looked at him with
disbelief.
You re kidding!
I said, delighted. Bester s
The Demolished Man?
He nodded his head, delighted at my being delighted. He knew it was one of my
favorite books. Oh, that s super!
Super duper,
he said.
Who s in it?
Franchot Tone, Evelyn Keyes, Lionel Barrymore and Elisha Cook, Jr. He was
much more knowledgeable about movie actors than I d ever been. He could name
the
character actors in any movie he d ever seen. Even the crowd scenes.
And cartoons? I asked.
Three of em: a
Little Lulu, Donald Duck a and a
Bugs Bunny.
An a
Pete Smith
Specialty an a Lew Lehr
Monkeys is da -r-r-r-aziest Peoples.
C
Oh boy! I said. I was grinning from ear to ear. And then I looked down and
saw the pad of purchase order forms on the seat. I d forgotten to drop it off
at the store.
Gotta stop by the Center, I said. Gotta drop off something. It ll only take
a minute.
Okay, Jeffty said. But we won t be late, will we?
Not on your tintype, kiddo, I said.
When I pulled into the parking lot behind the Center, he decided to come in
with me and we d walk over to the theater. It s not a large town. There are
only two movie houses, the
Utopia and the Lyric. We were going to the Utopia and it was only three blocks
from the
Center.
I walked into the store with the pad of forms, and it was bedlam. David and
Jan were handling two customers each, and there were people standing around
waiting to be helped.
Jan turned a look on me and her face was a horror-mask of pleading. David was
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running from the stockroom to the showroom and all he could murmur as he
whipped past was Help! and then he was gone.
Jeffty, I said, crouching down, listen, give me a few minutes. Jan and
David are in trouble with al: these people. We won t be late, I promise. Just
let me get rid of a couple of these customers. He looked nervous, but nodded
okay.
I motioned to a chair and said, Just sit down for a while and I ll be right
with you.
He went to the chair, good as you please, though he knew what was happening,
and he sat down.
I started taking care of people who wanted color television sets. This was the
first really substantial batch of units we d gotten in-color television was
only now becoming reasonably priced and this was Sony s first promotion--and
it was bonanza time for me. I
could see paying off the loan and being out in front for the first time with
the Center. It was business.
In my world, good business comes first.
Jeffty sat there and stared at the wall. Let me tell you about the wall.
Stanchion and bracket designs had been rigged from floor to within two feet of
the ceiling. Television sets had been stacked artfully on the wall.
Thirty-three television sets. All playing at the same time. Black and white,
color, little ones, big ones, all going at the same time.
Jeffty sat and watched thirty-three television sets, on a Saturday afternoon.
We can pick up a total of thirteen channels including the UHF educational
stations. Golf was on one channel; baseball was on a second; celebrity bowling
was on a third; the fourth channel was a religious seminar; a teenage dance
show was on the fifth; the sixth was a rerun of a situation comedy; the
seventh was a rerun of a police show; eighth was a nature program showing a
man flycasting endlessly; ninth was news and conversation; tenth was a stock
car race;
eleventh was a man doing logarithms on a blackboard; twelfth was a woman in a
leotard doing sitting-up exercises; and on the thirteenth channel was a badly
animated cartoon show in Spanish. All but six of the shows were repeated on
three sets. Jeffty sat and watched that wall of television on a Saturday
afternoon while I sold as fast and as hard as I could, to pay back my Aunt
Patricia and stay in touch with my world. It was business.
I should have known better. I should have understood about the present and the
way it kills the past. But I was selling with both hands. And when I finally [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]