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The day after the Ferris wheel robbery.

A pounding headache is the signal that causes Janokovic to respond, and a

tickling right arm; it feels as if it is there - then not there. He gets up, quickly
realizes that he has to use his left arm to force him up. His right arm is asleep,

and for a brief moment he feels paralyzed by anxiety about whether the arm

would ever work again. He sits on the couch for a while, interchangeably rubbing
then shaking his arm. Finally the feeling of the stinging sensation as blood begins

to flow back into his veins. He turns on the television and reaches for his
cigarettes. At the other end of the brown yellow sofa lies George, who has pulled

the white wool blanket on, which Mom usually sits with when watching TV.

George has dragged the blanket all the way up to under his nose. Janokovic lights
a mat and sets fire to a cigarette, and for a moment he thinks about waking up

George. Just as Jano is about to give the kid a caring slap, he stops, and instead

leaves for the toilet. The small lavatory on the ground floor is not much larger
than a pantry.

"I have to have the toilet door open, while I’m shitting. I won’t fit otherwise,"
Jack groaned a few years ago.

Jack made it such, as to set up grey folding doors in the living room and in the

kitchen, so that he could shit in peace. The time before Jack had arranged the
folding doors, there were no doors neither in the kitchen nor living room. Jack

had also fixed the light and floor of the toilet; he painted the lavatory and placed

a sheet of plywood over the old perforated linoleum-floor. He also has put up a
poster of what he calls his "dream car" - a red Ferrari Testarossa vintage 1958.

Jack and mom are usually the only people using the toilet. There is no sink in in

Jack’s toilet, so when Jano finishes, he have to go out and into the kitchen to
attain water.

He turns on the small gas stove and fills water in the blue boiler that he puts over

the small gas cooktop. He takes two mugs with motifs of cartoon characters, as
he sits and waits for the water to boil.

As he's done with the cigarette, he shoves it in the sink and throws the scrap into
the trashcan, which is located on the floor in the corner of the kitchen. He starts