The following day, what event captured the attention of this rabble?
Media Beckett.
Why was the group drawn to this particular event?
A girl. Of course.
And what illustrious literary figure was in attendance?
Paul Muldoon.
For what reason did said poet attend?
Unknown.
Did any conversation take place between him and our heroes?
Mr. Muldoon enjoined Andy to wake him if he should fall asleep, as the room was dim.
Andy’s reply?
Affirmative.
Were other visages visible, more or less famous than the august Irish poet?
Portraitures of former Texas governors, among them our current emporer, GWB.
What was the reaction of those assembled to this portrait?
Variously: consternation, amusement, horror.
At the close of the panel, did the girl whose presence had drawn them together continue to occupy Andy, Coye and TEFKAMS throughout the evening?
Indeed.
What allusions were made regarding the woman desired?
Andy: Ahab chasing his white whale.
What machinations did Coye engineer for the purpose of securing precious moments with the girl?
Cell phone messages left on the bat bridge.
Parking space sought endlessly.
Birthday bash crashed to no avail.
More cell phone messages.
More searching for parking.
For what reason did he meditate on schemes so difficult of realisation?
It was one or his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic relation to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil recollection of the past when practised habitually before retiring for the night alleviated fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and renovated vitality.
Alone, what did Coye feel?
The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.
And then, what did Coye hear?
The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heavenborn earth, the double vibration of a cell phone harp in the resonant lane.
What was his response?
Joy. Elation. Terror.
Was Ahab able to find the object of his obsession?
Yes.
3 comments:
YES.
TEFKAMS! Outstanding job. I was wondering if I was ever going to see the masterpiece. It was well worth the wait. Perhaps it should be banned in the United States for a number of years, published piecemeal by small magazines until an obscure French press starts commercial printing of the entire work?
Methinks you are giving that fool more credit than he deserves. He was just trying to be Joyce, it seems to me, and his copy pales in comparison to the original. And he can see.
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