The Sixth Veil (pgs. 292-307) Summary

After drinking some rum, Ellen Cherry tries on a pair of shoes for Spike, which quickly leads to sex. Ellen Cherry feels a pang of guilt, but it quickly goes away when she remembers that Ultima said she was going to Jerusalem to visit Boomer. At work that night, Ellen Cherry gets a call from her mother that Buddy is going ahead with his plans to blow up The Dome of the Rock. Patsy voices her concerns about Boomer, but Ellen Cherry says Boomer wouldn't get caught up in something like that. Later that evening, the belly dancer performs again, this time to a packed room.

The narrator then goes into a discussion of the afterlife and the different consequences it brings. People, he says, will put up with all kinds of injustices if they...