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Freshly Started but Deeply Rooted
You can't unring a bell. Just like hunting, he headed off, up and east after he'd reached the top. Heartattack headaches and a bull with a roostercrow in it's belly, not knowing where he'd left it. He'd found his jacket in a coatshop for literally a song (though not his own) in Lost Dog, Arizona, a horrible little burp of a town consisting of a man-made lake, sundry sun-dried shops, a bar not worth a hot bug as far as ambience goes (but with a bartender who made one mean Alaskan Bear-Taunter) and a general sense of shallow, affected ho-hummedry, in that stilled violence kind of way. His hat was a dirty little piece, ugly in style and roped two cars too short in size. He had a cane with a compartment in which you could fit about a gram of gravel or what have you, but he'd left it at home. He'd been walking and scaling and de-scaling in a spanking-new pair of Australian wingtips that had been shot to hell and tossed back. Take off and sling it around, like the blanket. They were just tops now anyway, so it'd have made sense to feed them to the sunset, he supposed. Feet spats. The trousers, however, had held up as good as next day. For the life of all, he couldn't remember where he'd gotten them.![]() |
Much has been written, in story and song, of the night that the Tea Room came down.