His father was a big wheel in the oil business, and had always pushed Daniel in that direction. At midnight Bernie signed off. Daniel wrote Bernie a letter. But he was so kind to me, so helpful, he stuck his neck out for me. She stepped closer and stood directly in front of him. They were naked in bed, postcoital, talking about her husband with a photo album in her lap. Write this down.”
Bernie gave him all of the pertinent information: The call letters, address, names, numbers. He loved their conversations, her sense of humor, the way she held him, the way she laughed, the way she kissed, and of course the way they fucked. It was difficult material, stuff that he was not particularly interested in, and stuff that he now suspected for which his mind wasn’t properly equipped. Norma was a cute, thin dark-skinned girl with an Afro, nineteen or twenty years old. He grunted, and sang to the crowd, I got you, loud and proud, and told them how Papa’s got a mess and a brand new bag, and it’s a man’s world, and everyone
