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laying down an enfilade of same, trying to mollify men who seem
     way more in need of a good brow-mopping than I.
    ‘He’s fine,’ he keeps saying. ‘Look at him, calm as can be, lying there.’
    ‘You didn’t see what
happened
in there,’ a hunched Dean responds through a face webbed with fingers.
    ‘Excited, is all he gets, sometimes, an excitable kid, impressed with —’
    ‘But the
sounds
he made.’
    ‘Undescribable.’
    ‘Like an animal.’
    ‘
Sub
animalistic noises and sounds.’
    ‘Nor let’s not forget the
gestures
.’
    ‘Have you ever gotten
help
for this boy Dr. Tavis?’
    ‘Like some sort of animal with something in its mouth.’
    ‘This boy is damaged.’
    ‘Like a stick of butter being hit with a mallet.’
    ‘A writhing animal with a knife in its eye.’
    ‘What were you possibly
about,
trying to enroll this —’
    ‘And his
arms
.’
    ‘You didn’t see it, Tavis. His arms were —’
    ‘Flailing. This sort of awful reaching drumming wriggle.
Waggling,
’ the group looking briefly at someone outside my sight trying to demonstrate something.
    ‘Like a time-lapse, a flutter of some sort of awful… growth.’
    ‘Sounded most of all like a drowning goat. A goat, drowning in something viscous.’
    ‘This strangled series of bleats and —’
    ‘Yes they
waggled
.’
    ‘So suddenly a bit of excited waggling’s a crime, now?’
    ‘You, sir, are in trouble. You are
in trouble
.’
    ‘His face. As if he was strangling. Burning. I believe I’ve seen a vision of hell.’
    ‘He has some trouble communicating, he’s communicatively challenged, no one’s denying that.’
    ‘The boy needs
care
.’
    ‘Instead of caring for the boy you send him here to
enroll, compete?
’
    ‘Hal?’
    ‘You have not in your most dreadful fantasies dreamt of the amount of
trouble
you have bought yourself, Dr. so-called Headmaster,
educator
.’
    ‘… were given to understand this was all just a formality. You took him aback, is all. Shy —’
    ‘And you, White. You sought to
recruit
him!’
    ‘— and terribly impressed and excited, in there, without us, his support system, whom you asked to leave, which if you’d —’
    ‘I’d only seen him play. On court he’s gorgeous. Possibly a genius. We had no idea. The brother’s in the bloody NFL for God’s
     sake. Here’s a top player, we thought, with Southwest roots. His stats were off the chart. We watched him through the whole
     WhataBurger last fall. Not a waggle or a noise. We were watching ballet out there, a mate remarked, after.’
    ‘Damn right you were watching ballet out there, White. This boy is a balletic athlete, a player.’
    ‘Some kind of athletic savant then. Balletic compensation for deep problems which
you
sir choose to disguise by muzzling the boy in there.’ An expensive pair of Brazilian espadrilles goes by on the left and
     enters a stall, and the espadrilles come around and face me. The urinal trickles behind the voices’ small echoes.
    ‘— haps we’ll just be on our way,’ C.T. is saying.
    ‘The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.’
    ‘— think you could pass off a damaged applicant, fabricate credentials and shunt him through a kangaroo-interview and inject
     him into all the rigors of college life?’
    ‘Hal here
functions,
you ass. Given a supportive situation. He’s fine when he’s by himself. Yes he has some trouble with excitability in conversation.
     Did you once hear him try to deny that?’
    ‘We witnessed something only marginally
mammalian
in there, sir.’
    ‘Like hell. Have a look. How’s the excitable little guy doing down there, Aubrey, does it look to you?’
    ‘You, sir, are quite possibly ill. This affair is not concluded.’
    ‘What
ambulance?
Don’t you guys
listen?
I’m telling you there’s —’
    ‘Hal? Hal?’
    ‘Dope him up, seek to act as his mouthpiece, muzzling, and now he lies there catatonic, staring.’
    The crackle of deLint’s knees.