Ambient 06 - Going, Going, Gone

Christopher Street. He avoids seeing his sister, Enid, whose lifestyle he frowns upon. He believes he would do reasonably well in the world of his favourite movie, The Road Warrior, and thinks he would look more like Mel Gibson if his eyes weren’t so beady and his ears so big, although he wouldn’t. In his workaday life he happily ascends the ranks at Big Apple Demolition, and has also developed a thriving sideline trade selling, on eBay stained glass, gold and copper fixtures, marble sinks and tubs, teak and mahogany woodwork, plaster mouldings rescued in situ, chandeliers, sconces, iron gates, lengths of tin cornice, stone gargoyles and grotesques and (when lucky) cast-iron storefront. Like most New Yorkers, though perhaps for different reasons, he never passes the Chrysler Building without heaving a sigh.
     
    Jake, like Isabel, persists.
     
    Walter Bullitt is a novelist whose seven books are generally considered to be science fiction (which may be so), and popularly believed to be written with the assistance of chemicals (perhaps self-generated). Deeply appreciated by a cult audience, most of whom he believes he personally knows. Five of his titles have been much read in Slovakia.
     
    Eulalia Bax married Walter. They live happily in West Seattle, on S.W. Southern St. where Walter has easy access to the ferry to Vachon Island, and its mushrooms.
     
    Lola Hart still thinks Titanic was the best movie she ever saw. Her girlfriend (who attends Nightingale, not Brearley, but these things can’t be helped) is more of a Kate than a Leo.