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The old man s mood grew increasingly brittle as he began to
wrestle his Chevy Impala up the twisting grade toward the
summit. The one-hour trip down U.S. 280 from San Francisco to
the outskirts of San Jose had gone well enough, but his driving
was rusty, and Charley Hallinan remembered now with appre-
hension the twelve-mile asphalt corkscrew that wound ahead of
him over the hill toward Santa Cruz. The curves already seemed
sharper now than they had ten years ago, the lanes more narrow.
Worse, he began to fear that he might not make it to St. John s
before the pain came back.
A Japanese compact shot past hire in the narrow passing lane
with no more than ten inches to spare, rocketing his heartbeat
and producing an unwelcome giddiness. Damn fool, he muttered
after the driver, and hunched even closer against the steering
wheel, squinting over shiny knuckles like a sea captain on the
lookout for icebergs.
He turned on the radio, then irritably snapped it off, noticing
how poor the reception was once you got into the mountains. He
listened instead to the sounds of the Detroit clunker he had
borrowed for the trip, straining and groaning around the turns as
ff its archaic body were strung together with tape and baling
wire. Just like me. he thought, glancing up at himself in the
rearview mirror.
Charley quickly returned his attention to the road--partly for
safety, but mainly out of disgust--for looking back at him from
the mirror was a woru-out face he barely recognized, with
yellowing, lifeless eyes and concave cheeks covered with skin as
coarse as fishnet. In the center of the face sprawled a French
bore of a nose wrapped in a network of merging capillaries.
Loose skin hung from his cheeks, his chin, And the backs of the
pale, blue-veined hands that gripped the wheel were mottled with :
"Hooker s bumps," so named in honor of the chemical com-
pany that had once contaminated Niagara s Love Canal. To a
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