Such a quibbling message I just left on Matt's cell phone could not be rivaled by the Great Quibblers of the Golden Quibbling Era.

The message was left because. Because this town.. This place is pandemonium and paradise, pulling you deeper and deeper still into a condition of Limbo, and he's getting out. Going to Michigan or some other land much too high above sea level. And only for a few weeks; he'll be back a day before Angie. But there is this strange and slight flicker of thought that he might not come back. Or maybe I'm just saying that to try to put the idea in his mind. But that is really no matter because in ten years I will be able to say "I have known Matt for fifteen years." and won't that be pleasant.