The storm door is opening now, then the door into the front hall and, without the usual pause there to remove boots and winter coat or scarf, my uncle strides into the living room.
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And the people paying for all this work -- that's you and me -- are not likely ever to see it, not unless Mr. Bloomberg's designated schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, does something bold, like throwing the place open now and then to ordinary people.
"See how beautiful I am!" he declared and then, as the shop door opened, he demanded: "Now then, where do they keep the Foucault and Derrida?" The bookshop was Ad Marginem, which is also a publisher, notorious for the recent succès de scandale, Vladimir Sorokin's Blue Fat, a wild, scabrously satirical SF/porno/fantasy novel.
The city of Houston floated and bobbed, sinkholes opening now and then to claim a piece of terra firma, and over this blighted terrain presided Fanny Mann and Constance, of different generations and stations, crises and wishes.
The road, a single lane, wound through thick, young forest and opened now and then onto the Klamath, a steely chasm edged with green.
So now then, who should open the bowling against Enery Gayle?
"When we start to look a month or a month and a half from now, then we would open it up a little".
"Now then, now then, now then.
