In the cab back downtown,the one thing I head-gamed myself about was Jessica's sexual history.

Echoing this constellation, a version of Mcllvaine, the narrator of The Waterworks, reappears in City of God, where he is visited by the Reverend Dr. Thomas Pemberton in a hospice replete with the generic blank stares of the pre-dead.

she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours

a rush job