is
planning to meetfor drinks at the Wicker Bar at ten o'clock that evening. In the meantime,
though, he has a lot of time to kill. So he goes to Radio City Music Hall and treats himselfif
that's the right wordto some entertainment.
He watches a high-kicking
performance by the legendary Rockettes, sees a guy in a tuxedo roller-skate under a bunch of
little tables while telling jokes, and catches a movie about an English war veteran who loses
his memory in hospital. For good measure, Holden watches a Christmas show complete with angels,
crucifixesa strange feature for a Christmas show, of all things!and a rousing rendition of
"Come All Ye Faithful".
Holden's pretty depressed by the whole
spectacle. As one might expect, he regards it all as just plain phony. Not surprisingly, Holden
says that going to Radio City to kill time before his meeting with Carl Luce was probably the
worst thing he could've done.
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