Favorite Quotes/Excerpts :
"I've been a drug addict, I know my ounces, my metric weights, if need be. Metric was supposed to be the thing of the future back in the seventies. By turn of the century we'd be zipping quietly from town to town in our electric cars. We'd pull into a charging station and ask how many kilometers it was to Dallas. But it didn't work out that way. The future of the past is rarely the present. Only Ed Begley Jr. has an electric car and only scientists, addicts, and narcotics officers can tell a kilo from a pound and do the math in their heads."
"I walk over and take a look at Maggot Arm Joe's arm. The inside of his arm looks like someone took a chunk of it out with a mellon baller. There's a big recess, and the skin's all slick, it catches the light, shiny as a latex miniskirt.
I say, 'So that's healed? That's how it'll look?'
Arlo says, 'That's close. Some muscle will fill back in. But when you destroy muscle, you change the shape of the body.'
I look down at the slick recess in his arm.
Maggot Arm Joe says, 'It's not so bad.'
'You are a lucky man,' Arlo says. 'Medical ingenuity- there should be a thank-you section in Hallmark for medical ingenuity. The scars that a surgery would have left in that beautiful arm of your would have been just savage. There would have been an ugly hole in that arm.'
I look down at what looks like a big ugly hole in his arm."
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