Summary

In Chapter 3, it is Halloween in the late 1970s. Lenny dresses up as Abraham Lincoln. He meets up with Miriam and Tommy, who are having a Halloween party with their Wesbeth commune. Cicero is also in attendance. Lenny is sexually turned on just by looking at Miriam, and is glad his Lincoln costume hides it well. On the way home, Lenny narrowly misses being killed in a train accident, as he departs the subway for Rose’s apartment, where he sleeps with Rose. The two end up arguing over whether Miriam is the greater revolutionary, or Lenny is. Rose considers Lenny a cheap revolutionary because he never made one enemy worth making. Rose tells her that such a visit can never happen again. As Lenny leaves, he is pursued and shot at by a group of IRA attackers, to whom...