quotes and concepts

"why would someone choke on pork unless they didn't know how to chew?"

"let's not turn this rape into a murder."

+handi-snaks- always biting one's nails

would you stop it with the handi-snaks?

what are you talking about?

stop biting your nails. jesus, christ, it's not a sandwich


man is in library at one of those study desks, looking at maps/history of spoons in the ohio river valley
a woman sits on a study deskk facing him, but is out of sight due to partition. man can only see top of woman's head/hair. shades on her head. listens for drinking, writing, highlighting, page turning, sighs. drops pen on floor in order to look down, see if partition runs length of desk. wants look at feet/shoes. sandals or shoes. nail polish or not. imagines/fantasizes about woman on other side/what she is reading. looks for hands scratching head. ink on hands, nail polish watch, ring, bracelets, wrist size, arm hair, nail length, shape of nail, possible scent wafting over. a male visitor stops at her desk. a laugh. whispering. man gets jealous. hears cloth rubbing. a sign of embrace. imagines whispering into woman's ear, but can not do so w/o the lisp. ruins fantasy. sees part of purse peeking over edge of desk. imagines what is in purse. what secrets of her life are hidden within its depths and whether or not the items that may or not be held within are as important to her as the man is making them out to be to him. interior monologue.