Story 7 Summary

"Dirty Wedding" The narrator describes his preference for sitting at the front of a train and being able to watch the world as it passes by. He then narrates a series of train rides, the first being with his girlfriend Michelle to an abortion clinic, where his crudity gets him kicked out. On the second, he becomes fascinated with a stranger, and follows him off the train into a Laundromat. As the man peels off his shirt to wash it, the narrator gets an erection, and is surprised to learn that he can feel sexually aroused by men. Michelle, he writes, gets sexually involved with both men and women.

On the third train trip, the narrator meets a young woman stoned on what looks like very good drugs. "I know there are people," the narrator says, "who believe that wherever you look, all...