In a short story by Harold Brodkey, from 1990, a man reflects on his experiences during a particularly eventful spring spent uptown. NewYorkerArchive
The first orchestral realization that something is up: Playing Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” on a spavined CD player. It was a gray day in early February and the sun came out; and I was thinking, “The Dry Cleaners, The Dry Cleaners, The Dry Cleaners, The Dry Cleaners.”
First episode of spring nosiness not having to do with allergies or nose-blowing: I don’t know why the soul’s primary mechanics should consider spying or snooping a natural attribute of renewed life, but in the office icebox I see a small gold-colored can, shaped like a shoe-polish can, of caviar, and wonder, jealously, who is so happy and so bent on celebration , but when I open it, it is empty, and written on the bottom of the can, in pencil, is the phrase “Hard Cheese.
With my hand betowelled and my soul a little mad with pessimism about the current ways we live, and with gaiety, heroism, and the spring wound, I phone my wife at her office. She makes more money than I do.from my wife’s assistant while I am waiting for my wife to end a meeting. It is possible that even the assistant makes more money than I do. She says that in the stores is a helping-the-blood-clot-and-disinfectant-and-anesthetic spray; and there are clutch bandages.
“I fainted a little. I’m sort of on my knees here. Hold on, let me get up. Whoo, that was stupid. What I saw was gray-white; there’s quite a lot of gray-white. I suppose I saw blood but it looked gray-white and blood isn’t gray-white, it’s bluish, I remember, I—”“Someone is coming over—someone will be here soon. You. But you can’t come home. You’re at work. Should I go get a clotting spray?”“You cut your thumb?”“I wrapped my hand in a towel and I squeezed the towel with the other hand.
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