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• KNOW WHEN YOU BAT, Owen said. Ice hockey's not a sissy sport! he liked to say. WELL, IT SEEMS I HAVE INTERRUPTED WHAT-   EVER GAME THAT WAS YOU WERE PLAYING, Owen said. Come on in, he said, stepping back into his room, where-no doubt-he dreamed without cease of butchering the Viet Cong.

Once, he thought, he had seen into my mother's future; he had even become an instrument of her future. AND SHE WAS SEDUCED, OVER AND OVER AGAIN-SHE GOT FOOLED, SHE WAS TRICKED, SHE GOT USED, SHE WAS USED UP. I don't think he took any notice of the steel bands girdling her hips, or the four-inch bolts that penetrated her feet and were welded to their respective nuts under the stage. But I did not intend what I did to him as any favor.