GR 'Streets'

[Terrance]

(of course, the news of the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima has left him
totally awestruck and in despair)



"slothrop sits on the curbstone watching it, and the letters, and girl
with steel cock waving hi fellas, as the fog whitens into morning, and
figures with carts, or dogs, or bicycles go by in brown-gray outlines,
wheezing, greeting briefly in fog-flattened voices, passing. He doesn't
remember sitting on the curb for so long staring at the picture. But he
did." 

The fact that he sits on the curb staring at the picture for longer than
he remembers doesn't tell us that he was totally awestruck or in
despair.