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A cue for everyone to move up the stairs to the second floor for dinner

"A sense of frenzy in the air?" JD whispers toat Club Lure in about two hours," I hiss at hiht and your name’s on the list"

"Oh Victor," JD says "Be aware if you dare"

We’ll slide down the surface of things

How it got to be eleven so suddenly is confusing to us all, not that it really , and conversation revolves around how Mark Vanderloo "accidentally" ate an onion-and-felt sandwich the other night while viewing the Rob Lowe sex tapes, which Mark found "disappointing"; the best clubs in New Zealand; the injuries someone sustained at a Metallica concert in Pismo Beach; how Hurley Thompson disappeared froue); what surueso, based on a starfish one of the producers found behind a fence in Nepal; a threesoner; spinning lettuce; the proper pronunciation of "ooh la la" At our table Lauren’s on one side ofwith Baxter Priestly, Johnathon Schaech, Carolyn Murphy, Brandon Lee, Chandra North, Shalouizamo, Kirsty Hume, Mark Vanderloo, JFK Jr, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Patsy Kensit, Noel Gallagher, Alicia Silverstone and someone who I’m fairly sure is Beck or looks like Beck and it see very expensive pantsuits Earlier in the day I was upset that Chloe and I weren’t seated at Das I had to say to David Geffen and an apology I had to ainst Da roll of fil into each other as table-hopping on a very massive scale resu in and out of focus, it’s okay

I’rino on and Lauren’s talking to a kneeling Woody Harrelson about he what I’ conversation with Baxter, and she turns reluctantly toanother Cosmopolitan, her face taut with misery, and then she simply asks, "What is it?"

"Um, baby, what’s the story with Daerly

"I am so bored with you, Victor, that I don’t even kno to answer that," she says "What are you talking about?"

"How long have you known about Daain, loweringover at Lauren and Woody

"Why isso away

"Honey," I whisper patiently, "they’re having an affair"

"Who told you this?" she asks, recoiling "Where did you read this? Oh god, I’m so tired"

"What are you so tired of?" I ask patiently