Dance Me to the End of Love Ch. 09
Here's Where the Story Ends One Friday night, some weeks later--that is, after, as Callie described it, "we quote-unquote went all the way," using an especially juvenile hand signal [in case I didn't understand that she meant we'd had intercourse]--I held a samurai film "mini-festival" in the apartment. In reality, this meant watching rented VHS tapes of Kurosawa movies, with beer and snacks, on the couch in the living room. Alone, as it turned out. My date--a woman with whom I'd had a brief [and, I was told, "friggin' loud an' nasty"] fling some months ago--canceled at the last minute, saying she "just wasn't feeling it." Callie had likewise declined my invitation, though in her own uniquely colorful manner, saying, "Whaaaaat, watch a buncha dudes killin' other dudes with swords? For eight hours straight? In black-and-white? Nuh-uh, thanks. Ah'm goin' down the corner and maybe get a li'l drunk.