deranged bitch in the car, who made a proclivity of throwing her body against the windows, the drive was also difficult because the car is so much shit that it would not travel any faster than as fast as I could run, which is sixty kilometers per the hour. Many cars passed us, which made me feel second rate, especially when the cars were heavy with families, and when they were bicycles. Grandfather and I did not utter words pending the drive, which is not abnormal, because we have never uttered multitudinous words. I made efforts not to spleen him, but nonetheless did. For one example, I forgot to examine the map, and we missed our entrance to the superway. “Please do not punch me,”
I said, “but I made a miniature error with the map.” Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window. He did not say anything for the majority of a minute. “Did I ask you to drive the car?” he asked. “I do not have a license to drive the car,” I said. (Keep this as a secret, Jonathan.) “Did I ask you to prepare me breakfast while you roost there?” he asked. “No,” I said. “Did I ask you to invent a new kind of wheel?” he asked. “No,” I said, “I would not have been very good at that.” “How many things did I ask you to do?” he asked. “Only one,” I said, and I knew that he was pissing off, pissing everywhere, and that he would yell at me for some durable time, and perhaps even violence me, which I deserved, nothing is new. But he did not. (So you are aware, Jonathan, he has never violenced me or Little Igor.) If you want to know what he did, he rotated the car around, and we drove back to where I fashioned the error. Twenty minutes it captured. When we arrived at the location, I informed him that we were there. “Are you cocksure?” he asked. I told him I was cocksure. He moved the car to the side of the road. “We will stop here and eat breakfast,” he said. “Here?” I asked, because it was an unimpressive location, with only a few meters of dirt amid the road and a concrete wall separating the road and farmlands. “I think this is a premium location,” he said, and I knew it would be a common decency not to argue. We roosted on the grass and ate, while Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior attempted to lick the yellow lines off of the superway. “If you blunder again,” Grandfather said while he masticated a sausage, “I will stop the car and you will get out with a foot in the backside. It will be my foot. It will be your backside. Is this a thing you understand?”
We arrived in Lvov in only eleven hours, but yet traveled at once to the train station as Father ordered. It was rigid to find, and we became lost people many times. This gave Grandfather anger. “I hate Lvov!” he said. We had been there for ten minutes. Lvov is big and impressive, but not like Odessa. Odessa is very beautiful, with many famous beaches where girls are lying on their backs and exhibiting their first-rate bosoms. Lvov is a city like New York City in America. New York City, in truth, was designed on the model of Lvov. It has very tall buildings (with as many as six levels) and comprehensive streets (with enough room for as many as three cars) and many cellular phones. There are many statues in Lvov, and many places where statues used to be located. I have never witnessed a place fashioned of so much concrete. Everything was concrete, everywhere, and I will tell you that even the sky, which was gray, appeared like concrete. This is something that the hero and I would speak about later, when we were having an absence of words. “Do you remember all the concrete in Lvov?” he asked. “Yes,” I said. “Me too,” he said. Lvov is a very important city in the history of Ukraine. If you want to know why, I do not know why, but I am certain that my friend Gregory does.
Lvov is not very impressive from inside the train station. This is where I loitered for the hero for more than four hours.
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