‘What did you think?’ ‘That you were her pimp. You pimped for me and you pimped for them, and now you are pimping for the latest one. The eternal pimp. Why don’t you get angry, Henry?’ ‘I never knew.’ ‘You pimped with your ignorance. You pimped by never learning how to make love with her, so she had to look elsewhere. You pimped by giving opportunities … You pimped by being a bore and a fool, so now somebody who isn’t a bore and fool is playing about with her in Cedar Road.’ ‘Why did she leave you?’ ‘Because I became a bore and a fool too. But I wasn’t born one, Henry. You created me. She
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