the thing that struck me about her was how beautiful she looked on the jumbo screen . that need not be the one i dreamed of . will nodded at me from the front stoop . it got to where `` p-dope , '' a heroin mixture , cost only four dollars a hit-cheaper than a six-pack . `` that sounds like the kind of man who could run an experiment on humans in the gulf war . instead of stopping , foster tugged me toward it , his fingers tight enough to cut off my circulation . 