Dreamcatcher
“By the time Mr. Gray passed the Gardiner exit, the first one below Augusta, the snow-cover on the ground was considerably less and the turnpike was slushy but two lanes wide again. It was time to trade the plow for something less conspicuous, partly because he no longer needed it, but also because Jonesy’s arms were aching with the unaccustomed strain of controlling the oversized vehicle. Mr. Gray didn’t care much for Jonesy’s body (or so he told himself; in truth it was hard not to feel at lea...st some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as “bacon” and “murder”), but it did have to take him another couple of hundred miles. He suspected that Jonesy wasn’t in very good shape for a man in the middle of his life. Part of that was the accident he’d been in, but it also had to do with his job. He was an “academic.” As a result, he had pretty much ignored the more physical aspects of his life, which stunned Mr. Gray. These creatures were sixty percent emotion, thirty percent sensation, ten percent thought (and ten percent, Mr.MoreLess
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