Jimmy decided to get drunk-not just drunk enough to enjoy life {here he grinned, and Cecily smiled back}, not just drunk enough to fuck Cecily for instance up the ass without a rubber, not just drunk enough to hear bees buzzing round his ears and wake up in another bad place he'd never seen before with crushed bugs on the walls and men maybe standing over him looking down at him with their teeth drawn away from their lips, and puke cold and sticky all over his face again, puke being the concretization of Jimmy's disgust with Jimmy whose eyes would be burning and throat burning and stomach squirming like a guilty squid and every muscle aching, and the dry heaves inside him just like heartbeats, just like yesterday;-no, he wanted to be drunk enough to scientifically establish the existence of the whores that he could see all around him. {Jimmy had always liked whores.} So he started drinking.
( William T. Vollmann )
[ Whores for Gloria ]
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