GOOD AMERICANS GO TO PARIS WHEN THEY DIE - Plot & Excerpts
They can’t let the women see and smell them the way they are. They wash themselves over a bunghole. They wash and wash and wash. The white of their hair proves to be plaster dust, not old age. Then they stagger barefoot into the men’s room, clutching a towel about their loins as they’d done that first time in their distant youth following resurrection. They cram old food down their throats and collapse on their beds and sleep for days. Seymour wakes up with a splitting headache and a confused memory of dreams of tunnels and giant spider webs and (probably not a dream) the cleaning girl called Stupid noisily bringing in trays and clean clothing and looking down at him with unbearable pity till he escaped from it by returning to the dream refuge of tunnels and giant spider webs. The other two men are still in bed, Max snoring painfully, Louis staring up at the ceiling and mumbling what sounds like prayers. Seymour gets up, dresses and goes into the women’s room where he finds Helen in her usual position, seated on her bed staring down at a book of statistics.
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