VV (19) You've got a friend in Stencil

Samuel Moyer smoyer at satx.rr.com
Fri Jul 13 23:36:14 CDT 2001


Page 451, Stencil leaves a note on Profane's beer belly (funny, makes me
think of the sticky note to feed the cat left on John Cusack's forehead in
the movie "Better Off Dead")... anyway...

Note is worth coming back to in another post, but it has Stencil leaving for
Stockholm.  "Dispose as you will of Profane.  Stencil has no further need
for any of you.  Sahha."  (452)

In this e-mail I will subject you to further quotations from the text, as is
my habit, to illustrate that this is a habit of Stencils....


Stencil and Profane.... Eigenvalue's office rooftop, Profane hanging by a
rope....(391):

"Break it," he gritted.  All at once another police car, sirens screaming,
lights flashing round and round, came tearing down the Park.  Stencil ducked
behind the roof's low wall.  The car kept going.  Stencil waited till it was
way downtown, out of earshot.  And a minute or so more.  Then arose
cautiously and looked after Profane.






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