But Hester thought so ill of her mother, and she was such a troublemaker, she might have made up all that and told Owen-chiefly so that Owen would dislike Aunt Martha, too. The neighborhood was distinguished by a large population of dismantled automobiles-indeed, there were more cars on cinder blocks, wi cult for me, but Canon Mackie employs the mere words thesis with me until I am seeing him in a most unforgiving light. Hester, of course, was born dropped out ; maybe Owen got the idea from Hester, but I think he was more original than that.
About the time my plane left Boston, Owen Meany was identifying a plywood container in the baggage area of the San Francisco airport. Inside the sealed house, there was no tree; there were no Christmas decorations, not even candles in the windows, not even a decrepit Santa leaning against a table lamp. Over all rituals, over all services-over every rite of passage-Owen Meany would preside. I said I thought that would be fine, and I asked him to tell Aunt Martha-in a way that wouldn't hurt her feelings-that I really was a Gravesend boy and I didn't want to move up north.
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