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way and getting his hand wet in somebody's coffee.
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The steward placed him with three youngish women dressed like parrots.
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Their hands were resting on the table, red speared at the tips.
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He sat and looked in front of him-- [I'm skipping down a little bit],
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glum and intense, at the neck of the woman across from him.
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At intervals her hand holding the cigarette would pass the
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spot on her neck.
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It would go out of his sight, and then it would pass again going
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back down to the table.
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What do we make of these odd moments of description?
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Why all these body parts hanging around?
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Why this sense of disgusting, excessive body matter?