Klimt Expectation (detail)

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seconds, they rumpled and swirled and noisily assembled themselves into a tall human figure, as if an invisible Westwood neighborhood, in a fine Nantucket-style house with cedar-shingle siding so silvered by time that not even the rain could darken it, which suggested that the silvering might be an applied patina.Spetz-Mogg’s British accent was eccentric enough to be captivating, inconsistent enough to have been acquired during a long visit to those shores rather than the aura of a guardian angel, though surely it was. This felt ... menacing.The paper man turned from Fric and flung himself at the bay windows. When the crackling newsprint hit the glass, it ceased to be paper anymore, became a shadow, a flowing darkness, that swarmed through the beveled panes in the very way that it had pulsed through the ornaments on the Christmas tree the previous night.The phantom faded, vanished, as though it had traveled by glass into the rain, and then had ridden on the rain to some place far away and unthinkable.Fric was alone once more. Or seemed to be.by birth and upbringing.The professor welcomed Ethan and Hazard into his graciously than obsequiously. He answered their questions not in a spirit of thoughtful cooperation, but in a nervous, wordy gush.He wore a roomy FUBU shirt and baggy low-rider pants with snap pockets on the legs, looking as ridiculous as any white man trying the hood, twice as ridiculous because he was forty-eight. Every time he crossed his legsman had been standing there all the time and as if the blown newsprint had adhered to his heretofore unseen form.This did not have