Every November, “expressionless men in federal white and municipal cadet-blue drain and scrub” the man-made duck pond, attracting crowds of people longing for shared public experiences • Himself “never once missed this spectacle, when alive and in town” • in the southwest corner, the A.F.R. kidnaps “grad-work-study” engineer from WYYY, using a shopping cart from Bread & Circus • observed by Pemulis, under the influence of "very mild 'drines, post-transaction" with the Antitois.