You are Max Wyman of Buffalo Syndic Territory. You are Max Wyman of Buffalo Syndic Territory. And Inge Klohbel is why you put away the crazy dream of scholarship, for her lips and hair and eyes and legs mean more to you than anything, more than _Later phonologic changes include palatal mutation; i.e., before_ cht _and_ hs _the diphthongs_ eo, io, _which resulted from breaking, became_ ie (i, y) _as in_ cneoht, chieht, _and_ seox (_x equalling_ hs), siex, six, syx.... the crazy dream of scholarship, what kind of a way is that to repay the Mob and The ringing bell. The flashing light. The wobbling pendulum. repay the Syndic and young Mike Hogan all over the neighborhood suddenly and Inge says he did stop and say hello but of course he was just being polite. so you hit the manuals hard and one day you go out on a breakdown call and none of the older men could figure out why the pump was on the blink; a roaring, chewing monster of a pump it was, sitting there like a dead husk and the cattlefeed backed up four miles to a storage tank in the suburbs and the steers in the yards bawling with hunger, and you traced the dead wire, you out with the spot-welder, a zip of blue flame and the pump began to chew again and you got the afternoon off. * * * * * And there they were. _Lee Falcaro: (Bending over the 'muttering, twitching carcass) Adrenalin. Brighter picture and louder sound._ _Assistant: (Opening a pinch cock in the tube that enters the arm, increasing video contrast, increasing audio): He's weakening._ _Lee Falcaro: (In a whisper) I know. I know. But this is IT._ _Assistant: (Inaudibly) You cold-blooded bitch._ You are Max Wyman, you are Max Wyman, and you don't know what to do about the Syndic that betrayed you, about the girl who betrayed you with the living representative of the Syndic, about the dream of scholarship that lies in ruins, the love that lies in ruins after how many promises and vows, the faith of twenty years that lies in ruins after how many declarations. The ringing bell. The flashing light. The wobbling pendulum. And a double whiskey with a beer chaser.