Topical Guide 628
Mark Dorset
Foreshadowing
Where Do You Stop? Chapter 30:
“Come here,” she said. Magically, she patted her hip. Oh, that hip, that hip, that satiny, slip-covered hip. That smooth expanse, where the satin stretched over the rounded prominence of it! That hip! The silvery sheen of the television light (released when electrons struck the fluorescent coating inside the television tube—Volume T) formed a vaguely ellipsoid brightness around it, like the contour line around a drumlin (Volume D) on a geological survey map (Volume M). Oh, that hip! I did as she suggested, acting quickly, so that she wouldn’t have time to reconsider, but with great care not to appear too eager. I pivoted on the sofa. I stretched myself out. I began to lower my head toward that glowing hip.
Where Do You Stop? Preface:
(By the way: it has been my habit, heretofore, to tell my tale in installments of nearly equal length, the length of novellas. This installment is the equivalent of three of those. If it actually were three of those, instead of the seamless construction that it is, they would have had the titles “Quanto the Minimum,” “Ariane’s Hip,” and “Night Watchman.” You may want to look for the boundaries.)
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