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I got ten, Henry would say, peg me ten, Duddits. 'On three,' Jonesy said. I want to hear the word. Jonesy raised his empty hands.

It's the thing that came up behind him while he was trying to hold the bathroom door closed, the thing that has snatched his body. Written on top of this one, in the black strokes of an IBM pencil ('Make sure your marks are heavy and unbroken, and if you need to erase, erase completely'), is the name DAVID DEFUNIAK. Byrus, Henry thought. Frantically.