749632 - 15. willie

by red jones

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the woman in the black suit with gray stripes got out of the long black car with no headlights or tail lights, without making any sign to larry as to whether he should stay in the car or follow her. she strode purposefully toward the door of al’s place. larry decided to get out of the car and follow her. but the car door would not open. * the time has come to reveal the name of the man in the blue suit. it is willie jones 33. that of course, is only his name. his number is 7y9t-8hh4. this is the new style number assigned to persons already processed in the populaton department’s consolidation program. prior to his processing, willie had been three people living in building 965437 in city 43285, the old “indianapolis” of continent 3. the first person was number 33. number 33 was a leninist marxist butterfly collector who liked chocolate chip cookies and baked a batch of their own every thursday. and wished to share them with their neighbors but was rudely rebuffed. number 33’s favorite scientist was archimedes. their favorite poet was sappho. their favorite movie star was hedy lamarr, and they often dreamed or streamed about being hedy lamarr, or about dining with her at delmonico's or 21. that is enough about number 33 - let’s get on with it. all right. the second person who had been consolidated into willie was: winona kingsbury, who lived across the hall from number 33 , but had never spoken to them except to decline their unwelcome offer of chocolate chip cookies. winona was a poet, and immersed in genealogy. she was a direct descendent of judas iscariot, tamerlane, gottfried leibniz, amd clement attlee, among others. her favorite fictional character was nancy drew. her favorite authors were dale carnegie and sylvia browne. enough already. i hope the third person is more interesting. you are awfully picky. how many people are interesting? good point, but proceed. the third person was: bill white. bill white was a maintenance man in building 965437. he lived in the boiler room in the basement. next