One morning while drinking coffee with Amos, Daniel Haws looked up suddenly, as if feeling the boy’s eyes on him, and said:“Tryin’ to burn holes starin’ like that?”“Guess I was just resting my eyes on you so as not to look at your wallpaper,” Amos gave a sour apology.Daniel closed the book he was reading, a volume of Rhodes’s history of the United States, and took a careful look at the kitchen wallpaper.“Yes,” he admitted, “that wallpaper is goddam ancient.
-James Purdy
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