Topical Guide 514
Mark Dorset
Music: For the Reservations Recommended Soundtrack Album
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 5:
You don’t really want me to leave you alone, Matthew. You want me to egg you on. Just look at her, watch her as she walks. You would come in her with such force! Like a cannon! Such pleasure! It would be better than that night with Belinda, the night she changed her name.
I can almost feel it.
Yes. You can, you can.
INT: Leila slinks off to the ladies’ room in slow motion. Music up.
See also:
Music: Ottorino Respighi’s “Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute” TG 53; Records; Audio Equipment TG 12; Jazz: Coleman Hawkins: “Body and Soul” TG 252; Rock ’n’ Roll TG 457; Music Appreciation TG 458; Jazz TG 513; Lyrics TG 513
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