The glass abattoir
ONE He is woken in the early hours of the morning by the telephone. It is his mother. He is used by now to these late-night calls: she keeps eccentric hours and thinks the rest of the world keeps eccentric hours too. “How much do you think it would cost, John, to build an abattoir? Not a big one, just a model, as a demonstration.” “A demonstration of what?”
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