6
A quarter after two, I couldn’t take it anymore and dialed Her number. Just dialed it and that’s it. I didn’t come up with any excuse after all. I felt the loud throbbing of blood in my temples, but the operator’s voice announced that the person I was trying to reach was temporarily unavailable. What a terrible voice! The problems this woman must have to agree to have her voice recorded for these damn phone announcements.
These voices always dishearten. They are calm and, in a way, indulgent, like the voices of psychiatrists. A person could be dying, breathing his last breath, dialing the number in desperation, and the voice on the other end of the line, a calm female voice tells you to call back later. What horrible maledictions must fly off the lips or sweep across the minds of thous
