Tolstoy Lied : A Love Story (9780547527307) - Plot & Excerpts
If I stop moving—so goes my thinking—something terrible will happen. In this manner, following Broadway and its tributaries into the mid-Nineties, I ignore the fact that something terrible already has. I watch the sidewalk, noting as for the first time Manhattan’s topography. How easy it is—the thought seems to take several blocks to form in my mind—to forget that there’s geology under all this concrete, until it rears up beneath you. I stride the hills and contours of Manhattan’s scarified face. Crossing Broadway, I fall in behind a teenaged boy walking two huskies. An old man crossing opposite us glares as he nears the trio, then points a finger at one of the huskies in ferocious accusation. “You owe me a beer!” he shouts. If George were here, he’d think this was hilarious. And this—the picture of George wagging his head with laughter, squeezing my hand as we make our way down the sidewalk—is what rends the spell that has held me together since afternoon. The cabdriver listens without comment as I sob for seventy blocks.
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