When it didnt, he gave another giant whooping gasp, and then he was breathing again on his own, and doing it as fast as he could to flush the smell and taste of her out of him.
Beside it was a ceramic ashtray with a paddlewheel excursion boat printed on the bottom encircled by the words, SOUVENIR OF HANNIBAL, MISSOURI - HOME OF AMERICAS STORY TELLER! And inside he thought: What I want, Annie, is for you to do one of your forgetting acts when Ive got access to one of your knives and Im sure I can move well enough to use it.