The Dancer Upstairs Page #13

- Here it goes then. You guys listen. - Sure.

Strategy is Sally Fay's revolutionary skin care for the older woman.

This new alpha-hydroxide serum...

...will combat your skin fatigue and sensitivity...

...what the Greeks call 'psora,' or itching.

It will make your fine lines disappear...

...and your face look 10 years younger overnight--

Let me see that manual.

Daddy, look.

- Daddy?

- What?

- What's that?

- I've asked everyone to come over...

...tomorrow without their makeup on so I can confirm their skin types.

Okay, honey, it's ready to come off. Come here.

- Let me know if you need anything.

- Thank you.

Again.

Can you turn down the sound, please?

- Can we go back to the beginning?

- Okay.

Is that really him?

- Who's that?

- That's Edith Pusanga.

And again. Forward.

Wait. Okay. Could you clarify that part?

Could you make it larger?

Now, stop. Stop. Stop. There.

How can we find out what that says?

Is it a painting?

No.

- A window, could it be?

- Could we blow up those letters?

More.

An advertisement, maybe.

No, flip it.

No.

It's a street sign.

I keep thinking Eros.

Eros.

- Are you telling the Fisherman?

- Not yet.

Can I widen the search, look outside the capital?

No, he's here.

He's here.

Calderon's people rang twice.

They want to know why we contacted the Chinese Embassy.

If you drew a map...

...of everywhere you've ever been...

...they say you draw your own face.

Where?

Where are you?

Yeah?

Give me the pen and the paper.

Hello?

Yes, I know Calle Peron, but it winds through half the city.

What about others?

Wait a minute, just one other?

In Sucros?

Calle Diderot?

You're a breath of fresh air.

After three weeks of sifting trash...

...I feel like I need a year in the scrub-atorium.

We finished combing through yesterday's refuse in Calle Peron.

Dirty work, diplomacy.

740 garbage bags...

...most of them filled with duck a la-f***ing-orange.

Cigarettes?

Marlboro, Marlboro Lights, Winston, Dunhill, Benson & Hedges...

...Jockey Club, Lucky Strike, Virginia Slims Menthol, Gauloises.

Not a single unfiltered Camel.

What about medicines?

Xanax for panic attacks, Prozac for clinical depression...

...Iithium for manic depression, X for psychotic depression...

...Maalox for stomach acid, estrogen supplements for menopause...

...yards of dental floss...

...and I would calculate enough used rubbers to fill...

...the Chinese ambassador's swimming pool.

I really hope people in the street have cleaner minds.

No dithranol, no Kenacort?

Nothing for the treatment of eczema...

...acne vulgaris or any other skin condition.

I've been in Miami.

I know the heartbreak of psoriasis.

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