Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You: A Novel - Plot & Excerpts
I knew my mother had arrived because the temperature had dropped about twenty degrees. Among my mother’s many interesting but misguided notions was the idea that keeping the gallery chilled like a meat locker would be good for business. This idea was the result of taking seriously an article she had read in the Style section of the Times, which maintained that, based upon a recent survey of the temperature of various emporia in New York City, a venue’s exclusivity was in direct inverse proportion to its temperature: Bergdorf Goodman’s 63°; Kmart 75°. And so I put on the sweater I kept handy for such chilly times as these. I assumed my position behind the counter and looked at the computer monitor, which displayed the gallery’s home page. John always returns to this page after he’s been surfing, and I don’t think he realizes that just by pressing the BACK key I can see what sites he’s been visiting. They are usually a very interesting mix of the esoteric and the pornographic.
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