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sidewalk café directly across and seven stories
below might have been airlifted in from New
OrleansA woman strolled up the
sidewalk eating what looked like a baguette, the
hem of her red skirt swirlingSomewhere someone
was playing a twelve-bar guitar blues, every note
ringing clear"Tell me something, Edgar - when
you look out there, does what you see interest you
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"Both," I saidDavis Islands is
entirely artificial - the brainchild of a man
named Dave DavisHe was Jay Gatsby, Florida-style
Have you heard of him?"
I shook my head
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"That just proves that fame's a fleeting thing
During the Roaring Twenties, Davis was a god down
here on the Suncoast
She waved an arm at the tangled streets below; the
bangles on her scrawny wrist jangled; somewhere
not too distant, a church-bell marked the deville watch hour of
two
"He dredged the whole thing from swampland at the
mouth of the Hillsborough RiverTalked the Tampa
city fathers into moving both the hospital and the
radio station here, back when radio was a bigger
deal than health careHe built strange and
beautiful apartment complexes in a time when the
concept of an apartment complex was unknownHe
put up hotels and swank nightclubsHe threw the
dough around, married a beauty louis vuitton logo contest winner,
divorced her, married her againHe was worth
millions when a million dollars was worth what
twelve million is todayAnd one of his best
friends lived just down the coast on Duma KeyFamiliar with that name?"
"Of courseI've met his daughterMy friend
Wireman takes care of her
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Mary lit a fresh cigarette"Well, both Dave and
John were as rich as Croesus - Dave with his land
and building speculations, John zucca fendi bag with his mills -
but Davis was a peacock and Eastlake was more of a
plain brown wrenJust as well for him, because
you know what happens to peacocks, don't you?"
"They get their tailfeathers chopped off?"
She took a drag on her latest cigarette, then
pointed the fingers holding it at me as she jetted
smoke from her nostrils"That would be correct,
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