Sallie comes out of the staff corridor to a side booth, conspicuously far away from the yellow crystal floating over the bar. She pops a pair of aspirin she brought out from her apartment and asks one of the waitrats to bring her one of the books from under the Tabs board.
Sallie barrels on with only the smallest of pauses indicating she'd even heard what Charlie said.
"There's just no indication of anything so far as how long we have, and nobody has claimed responsibility for a damn thing. I can't leave everyone here without knowing they're safe, and I can't make anyone safe."
With a new look to Charlie's dress for the day, "How do you do it?"
"You try everything you can. And when that doesn't work, you keep trying. And then you try again. And hope the Landlord, and the things outside the window, and God, let you succeed."
Let's ignore that he quit under much less severe though equally dire circumstances more than once.
She has work to do.
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"Ugh, I know, it's ridiculous."
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"There's just no indication of anything so far as how long we have, and nobody has claimed responsibility for a damn thing. I can't leave everyone here without knowing they're safe, and I can't make anyone safe."
With a new look to Charlie's dress for the day, "How do you do it?"
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Let's ignore that he quit under much less severe though equally dire circumstances more than once.
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But Sallie worries about everyone.
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"And since he's linked to the bar, maybe it's affecting him in ways we don't expect." He hopes that is not the case for Sallie.
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"Well, on the bright side, TS Eliot was wrong."
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"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
"Seems this is not a whimper."
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"The twentieth century had issues."
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