In the afternoon after the meal I ended up giving Hector, Jorge and their brothers' tours of both the secret passageway and the connecting tunnel.As w...e wound our way through the secret passageway Hector seemed surprised that the mechanism that operated the doors was as varied and complex as it was. By this time we had both had several beers and I was fumbling to remember how to activate one of the middle doors of the passageway. Hector laughed and said, "Hey Joe, this is almost like one of the. Flashing into my mind were allthe hours I had spent sitting by the front window of my mother's salon ofchoice, the only saving grace was that it was just off State Street, notfar from the square with an almost constant flow of people. Enoughvariety that I could spend my time making up stories about where theywere going, what they were like. I made some of them space aliens, otherswere spies, there was even one old man that walked by almost every time Iwas there that I imagined was a mad. Her eyes widened and a faint suggestion of a smile played at the corners of her generous mouth.“You obviously take a genuine interest in your work. I’ve known so many models who just stand, or sit or lie down without knowing what effect they are creating. Some look thoroughly bored. She then looked straight into my eyes and asked, “Do you like a nice comfortable position?” I hesitated a moment before replying. I felt this was a testing question. “Well . . . it partly depends on the length of. Her eyes rolled back then to gaze upon dreamland. Draped on the precipice and as careless as a kitten asleep in the crotch of a tree, there held warmly by her stony Pietà, she floated into deep slumber. Blanketed in Sol's comforter, the five-and-a-half foot Amazon, cradeled in the Land of Enchantment, watched herself, as dreamers do, dawdling in a different Land without Adam. She eyed herself searching for a white lily in a garden of pink Carolina Phlox. She surveyed her avatar as it.
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