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22 Pre-Op Dan Jones is coming to meet with us. All of us, Monday at 2:30 p.m. Dan Jones will meet with all of us two days from now. It is all we were told. Neil Diggs walked up and gave us the tip, but he didn’t say why Dan Jones was going to meet with us, or who Dan Jones is and what kinds of business Dan Jones was after. Dan Jones could be a barber, and for all I know that’s what he is. I looked down to see what Dan Jones did to me, the hair on the floor, a drop of blood smeared onto my pant leg when the clipping became fierce. I heard opera music and saw a delicate white hand cross over cold steel instruments resting on the soft linen. Tulips grew in the garden outside the window where Dan Jones, the faculty and I were meeting to discuss budget cuts. All of us topping our shaggy manes until Dan Jones rides by on his penny-farthing to give us a clip. ...

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