illiam just about got his ass kicked by one “Downlow,” a Guardian Angel up on 42nd St. William was all for being protected, but not (as he slurred) by some jujitsu-knowing pseudo-religious paramilitary gangbanger wearing three crosses and a beret. After taking a couple of blows to the neck and head William confronted “Downlow” with the “prisoner’s dilemma” of Richard Powers’second novel. Which book “Downlow” had read, so in the end the two both became mollified and friendly-like.

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