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| 1 | --- | 1 | --- |
| 2 | title: 'Telemarketer' | 2 | title: 'Telemarketer' |
| 3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | 3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' |
| 4 | project-order: 38 | ||
| 5 | genre: 'prose' | ||
| 4 | ... | 6 | ... |
| 5 | 7 | ||
| 6 | It was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the | 8 | It was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the |
| @@ -47,11 +49,10 @@ if she were used to correcting people about the particulars of her | |||
| 47 | title. But how often can that happen? Larry thought, and he was suddenly | 49 | title. But how often can that happen? Larry thought, and he was suddenly |
| 48 | deeply confused. | 50 | deeply confused. |
| 49 | 51 | ||
| 50 | "Oh, sorry, ma'am, uh, Miz Loring, but I wanted to know whether you'd | 52 | "Oh, sorry, ma'am, uh, Miz Loring, but I wanted to know whether you'd like to, |
| 51 | like to, ah, buy some…" Larry put his head in his hand and started | 53 | ah, buy some..." Larry put his head in his hand and started twirling his hair |
| 52 | twirling his hair in his finger, a nervous habit he'd had since | 54 | in his finger, a nervous habit he'd had since childhood, and closed his eyes |
| 53 | childhood, and closed his eyes tightly. "Why don't you have anything | 55 | tightly. "Why don't you have anything better to do?" |
| 54 | better to do?" | ||
| 55 | 56 | ||
| 56 | Immediately he knew it was the wrong question. Even before the silence | 57 | Immediately he knew it was the wrong question. Even before the silence |
| 57 | on the other end moved past impatience and into stunned, Larry had a | 58 | on the other end moved past impatience and into stunned, Larry had a |
| @@ -72,6 +73,6 @@ Quietly, with the same patience but with a [bigger pain][], Jane said, "My | |||
| 72 | husband just left me and I thought you could take my mind off of him for | 73 | husband just left me and I thought you could take my mind off of him for |
| 73 | just a minute," and hung up. | 74 | just a minute," and hung up. |
| 74 | 75 | ||
| 75 | [ocean]: 12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html | 76 | [ocean]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html |
| 76 | [eagle perched]: 31-mountain.html | 77 | [eagle perched]: mountain.html |
| 77 | [bigger pain]: 11-arspoetica.html | 78 | [bigger pain]: arspoetica.html |