The Followed Man
“A few short uptown blocks away on Madison Avenue were the editorial offices of Gentleman, which occupied three floors of a building completed in 1938 in what Luke thought of as "Chrysler Air-Flow" style after a car his father had once owned. Twenty stories of yellow brick, the building had rounded corners decorated with wide, chrome-plated horizontal flashings, like bumpers.
He stood for a moment on the sidewalk outside the building, the day growing hot with a yellow haze, himself a sudden sna...g avoided by the walking people. At breakfast he'd overheard a young man with a Southwest accent say to an older man, "That's right, but here's where the money is, right here, so you got to come here. No gettin' around it." And Luke had realized then that he hadn't come to New York on his own—that is, without his expenses paid—in over ten years.
He had never been able to discover what Gentleman thought of itself. It was certainly an interesting magazine, though occasionally its yen for sophistication led it into positions beyond wit, such as a cover photograph showing George Washington before and after a transsexual operation.MoreLess
He stood for a moment on the sidewalk outside the building, the day growing hot with a yellow haze, himself a sudden sna...g avoided by the walking people. At breakfast he'd overheard a young man with a Southwest accent say to an older man, "That's right, but here's where the money is, right here, so you got to come here. No gettin' around it." And Luke had realized then that he hadn't come to New York on his own—that is, without his expenses paid—in over ten years.
He had never been able to discover what Gentleman thought of itself. It was certainly an interesting magazine, though occasionally its yen for sophistication led it into positions beyond wit, such as a cover photograph showing George Washington before and after a transsexual operation.MoreLess
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