Kurt Vonnegut - Long Walk to Forever

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Vonnegut. Long Walk To Forever

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They had grown up next door to each other, on the fringe of a

city, near fields and woods and orchards, within sight of a

lovely bell tower that belonged to a school for the blind.

Now they were twenty, had not seen each other for nearly

a year. There had always ben playful, comfortable warmth

between them, but never any talk of love.

His name was Newt. Her name was Catharine. In the early afternoon, Newt

knocked on

Catharine's front door.

Catharine came to the door. She was carrying a fat, glossy magazine she

had been reading.

The magazine was devoted entirely to brides. "Newt!" she said. She was

surprised to see him.

"Could you come for a walk?" he said. He was a shy person, even with

Catharine. He

covered his shyness by speaking absently as though what really concerned him

were far

away--as though he were a secret agent pausing briefly on a mission between

beautiful, distant,

and sinister points. This manner of speaking had always been Newt's style,

even in matters that

concerned him desperately.

"A walk?" said Catharine.

"One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over

bridges---"

"I had no idea you were in town," she said.

"Just this minute got in," he said.

"Still in the Army, I see," she said.

"Seven months more to go," he said. He was a private first class in the

Artillery. His uniform

was rumpled. His shoes were dusty. He needed a shave. He held out his hand for

the magazine.

"Let's see the pretty book," he said.

She gave it to him. "I'm getting married, Newt," she said.

"I know," he said. "Let's go for a walk."

"I'm awfully busy, Newt," she said. "The wedding is only a week away."

"If we go for a walk," he said, "it will make you rosy. It will make you

a rosy bride." He

turned the pages of the magazine. "A rosy bride like her--like her--like her,"

he said, showing

her rosy brides.

Catharine turned rosy, thinking about rosy brides.

"That will be my present to Henry Stewart Chasens," said Newt. "By taking

you for a walk,

I'll be giving him a rosy bride."

"You know his name?" she said.

"Mother wrote," he said. "From Pittsburgh?"

"Yes," she said. "You'd like him."

"Maybe," he said.

"Can--can you come to the wedding, Newt?" she said.

"That I doubt," he said.

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