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And you have long since outlivedthe scene where he buriedhis Swiss Army knife in the planting box outside the courthouseto avoid setting off alarms—as if you twohadn’t already createdalarms enough, hadn’t sufficiently frightenedand injured each other, which is whyyou found yourselves in a courtroom.And that wasso many years ago, you can now observethose figures dispassionately, or evenwith pity: they are charactersin a novel you’re tempted to cast aside, the storyis so worn, the people callow an...