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Modern touches in the kitchen: a slate-and-raphicover it Metal furniture fro roolass Custom-made chairs circle a table that was purchased at Christie’s at auction

I walk into the bedrooht indicates five more people have called since I left the club twenty o In the bedrooany sleigh bed inia in the nineteenth century, or so they say

I’ a Dalmatian Gus Frerotte’s in town Cameron Diaz called And then Matt Dillon And then Caain

I flip on the TV in the bedroom Videos, the usual I switch over to the Weather Channel

I stretch, groaning, h aboveup the Prada jacket I’ that

In the bathroom I lean over the white porcelain tub and turn the faucets,sure the water is hot I add so the a Dalmatian

I keep stretching

So on the floor of the bathroom catches my eye

I lean down

It’s a tiny circle,my hand up to my face

It’s a piece of confetti

I stare at it for a long ti towardas I move slowly back into the bedroom

When I’ray-has been du into the Chippendalethe shadow behind an eighteenth-century tapestry screen that stands in the corner

The shadowIt has that kind of stance

Icasually, I lean toward the nightstand and, laughing to le with the laces on the shoes I’ off, I reach into a drawer and pull out a25-caliber Walther with a silencer attached