010314 #jonquil Who decides what's perverse? It's not like she had a tendency to shit on the bathroom floor, like Zombie Boy. Why weren't they talking about him? Oh yeah, because he was supposed to act that way. He was an established fact. He had an excuse. 102913 #snail He takes a half-crumpled pack of cigarettes out of the breast pocket of his rugged raincoat, does that wrist flick that makes exactly one snow-white cylinder poke itself halfway out as a couple of its brethren barely show their tips and then slide resignedly back down into the pack. On the table there is a pear-shaped glass candle holder swaddled in a white mesh that looks a little like a hair net--to the flame ensconced in this squat vessel the man leans forward and, inhaling, touches his cigarette.