the first thing he ran into was the pool table butch was chilling next to-and there was barely any time for the cop to get that ashtray up off the side rails : wrath grabbed the gunnels and flipped the thing like it was nothing but a card table , the mahogany and slate-topped behemoth flying up so high , it wiped out the hanging light fixture above , its weight so great it splintered the marble floor beneath on landing .