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And they delighted. Kurtz smiled thinly. Jonesy looked at him, eyebrows raised. 326 THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON Naked barbarism took hold.

Outside the dingy office was a room so vast Jonesy couldn't see the end of it. At last the lights began to dim, and although Jonesy hadn't seen any of them wink out, there seemed to be fewer of them. ' 'I've always felt badly about what I did in the Rapeloews' house that day. Then the Merc was up on him again, pulling up alongside! The window went down on the passenger side of the Mercury, a