Summary

These pages are part of Book Three titled The Last Day of Francesco Lorenzi Fini. Book Three is a flashback, focusing on the day Frank drove his car over Shepard's Junction Bridge. He has just returned from a hospital in Trenton and both Lucy and Florence are overwhelmed by their desire to help and save Frank. Frank wakes Lucy early in the morning. He is naked and frantically pacing the bedroom, claiming that sleep is dangerous because it can cause something called “slippage.” Lucy tries to calm him down by giving Frank a blowjob, which is interrupted by Florence as she requests their presence at the breakfast table. Frank rejects the blowjob after hearing Florence, and Lucy is convinced she could have saved Frank if she helped him orgasm that morning. Florence, Pio, Edgar, Lucy, and Frank sit around the breakfast table. Edgar...