SLPAD - 106 - "Low-Lands" - 18

[Michael Bailey]

What rough beast?

The doorbell rings & Cindy runs to get the door "like a small blond
terrier."

(Rodney Dangerfield level of respect here)

Oh, it's Pig Bodine.


Nassau County police booth:

https://www.liherald.com/stories/village-refurbishes-worn-out-police-booth,143602

Making a policeman's lot that little bit happier.

Also reinforcing the impression of financial prosperity: "I like that,
let's buy it and put it on the property."


Route 25a
https://www.longislandexchange.com/roads/route-25a/


Mondrians in the police booth!

Happy geometric art

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/mondrian-composition#:~:text=Mondrian%20believed%20his%20abstraction%20could,objects%20in%20the%20visible%20world
.




"Flange, afflicted by marriage, had personal warning signals like those
afflicted by epilepsy. He sensed one now."

A nod to Dostoevsky?