...s, it was no wonder that he was peculiar. It was no wonder that at Christmas parties or barrooms he sat and drank in silence feeling like a buffoon fo... ...s locker. He took off his underwear and deposited it there. He had become so socialized to the need of a beeper (not that he ever got any calls apart ... ... temporary exhibits, and then to have him sit alone in a corner at these art parties where cheques were often signed. He saw him sitting in those str... ...he was in Korea but the language was still a secret to him. Chapter Five The social creature that even he was, if he were not to hear a voice for long... ...ections. Chapter Six Attempting to thwart his primitive hungers for sex and socialization (synonymous words of civilization's shaping, but base nonet... ...be God's appointed bully of world events and His proponent of capitalism and democratic tyranny was the American myth. She often asked herself how she... ...d grammar!," she bantered. He smiled morosely. "The article said that in the Democratic Republic of Congo a door of a cargo plane fell open. The arti... ...easures were dependent and the whole thing disgusted her. Cast from the two parties, the personal life was not merely a mosaic of selfish inconsequen...