Hearts in Atlantis Page #3

Remember when I asked if you knew

what was going on around here?

- Sure.

- That's why you're my man, kiddo.

Don't worry,

I won't let the bogeymen get you.

- Bobby?

- She can't know what you're thinking.

You think she can,

and that's a mother's power.

Mrs. Garfield.

Well, it's very cozy in here.

Mom, Ted... I mean, Mr. Brautigan...

...he's gonna pay me a dollar a week

to read him the paper.

Well, that's very generous.

Do you always have boys read to you,

Mr. Brattigan?

It's Brautigan, ma'am.

And, yes, I need someone to do it.

My eyes aren't what they used to be

since I retired.

And what did you do before that?

I worked up north. Various places.

Well, come along, Bobby.

Time and tide wait for no man.

- Bye, Mr. Brautigan.

- Bobby.

Mom, guess what Mr. Brautigan...

- Something doesn't make sense.

- What?

Why would a man his age wanna

spend time with a kid?

I don't know.

I do know that he said

I must be some lucky kid...

...to have a mom who'd let me...

...have a grownup library card

for my birthday.

I don't know. I trust him...

...about as far as I could

sling a piano.

That's right, spoil it for me.

You never want me to get that bike.

I do, and I wish I could've

gotten it for you.

But your father didn't exactly

leave us well-off.

It's only reading.

All right, what's the harm?

Yes, yes, yes!

But only on the porch,

mind, in the fresh air.

Okay.

- Bye, Bobby.

- Bye, Carol.

Sorry I'm late. I forgot the time.

That's all right.

We're all time's captives,

hostages to eternity.

Ben Jonson?

No, Boris Pasternak.

He was a Russian

of no account, I think.

What's going on in the world?

Something scurrilous.

"Vice President Richard M. Nixon...

...after having won

the Republican nomination...

...on the first ballot,

confers with Henry Cabot Lodge..."

- We're going for ice cream.

- Can't. Earning my daily bread.

- Afternoon, Mrs. Gerber. Carol.

- Hi, Ted.

I never, ever saw a girl

as special as Carol Gerber.

There's millions.

Oh, yeah?

- Have you kissed her yet?

- Yuck!

- Well, you will, I promise you.

- Stay away.

You will. It will be the kiss

by which all others...

...in your life will be judged,

and found wanting.

Are you done?

Yeah. Come on, read to me. Go on.

- Come back here and do your job.

- Okay.

But you will kiss her.

Oh, my God!

Nice going.

Get in! Get in, Bobby!

Come on. Come on, Sully.

Sully!

"FBI announces new measures

to combat Red infiltrators."

- Hey, Bobby.

- Yeah?

Tell me what Dale Arden's wearing

in Flash Gordon.

What is it with you and her?

When I was younger I thought

she was a real hotsie-totsie.

Okay, before comics,

we've got sports, baseball.

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