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take it easy on you – just volley-and-serve – but
I hunger to swing a racket
“Is volley-and-serve what you charge for
evaluating pictures?”
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Wireman led me through the back door, across a dim
kitchen with large white service islands and an
enormous Westinghouse stove, then into the
whispering interior of the house, which shone with
dark woods – oak, walnut, teak, redwood, cypress
This was a Palacio, all right, old Florida style
We passed one book-lined room with an actual suit
of armor brooding in the messenger bag prada cornerThe library
connected with a study where paintings – not
stodgy oil portraits but bright abstract things,
even a couple of op-art eye-poppers – hung on the
walls
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Light showered down on us like white rain as we
walked the main hall (Wireman walked; I limped),
and I realized that, for all of the mansion’s
grandeur, this part of it was no more than a
glorified dogtrot – the kind that separates
sections of older and much humbler Florida
dwellingsThat style, almost always constructed
of wood (sometimes scrapwood) rather than stone,
even has a name: oyster rolex Florida Cracker
This dogtrot, filled with light courtesy of its
long glass ceiling, was lined with plantersAt
its far end, Wireman hung a rightI followed him
into an enormous cool parlorA row of windows
gave on a side courtyard filled with flowers – my
daughters could have named half of them, Pam all
of them, but I could only name the asters,
dayflowers, elderberry, and foxgloveOh, and the
rhododendronThere was plenty of thatBeyond the
tangle, on a blue-tiled walk that presumably
connected with the main courtyard, stalked a
sharp-eyed heronIt looked both chanel earrings logo thoughtful and
grim, but I never saw a one on the ground that
didn’t look like a Puritan elder considering which
witch to burn next
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In the center of the room was the woman Ilse and I
had seen on the day we tried exploring Duma Key
RoadThen she’d been in a wheelchair, her feet
clad in blue Hi-TopsToday she was standing with
her hands planted on the grips of a walker, and
her feet – large and very pale – were bareShe
was dressed in a high-waisted pair of beige slacks
and a dark brown silk blouse with amusingly wide
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made me think of Katharine Hepburn in those old
movies they sometimes show on Turner Classic
Movies: Adam’s Rib, or Woman of the YearOnly I
couldn’t remember Katharine Hepburn looking this
old, even when she was old
The room was dominated by a long, low table of the
sort my father had had in the cellar for his
electric trains, only this one was covered in some
light wood – it looked like bamboo – rather than
fake grassIt was crowded with model buildings
and china figurines: men, women, children,
barnyard animals, zoo animals, creatures of
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