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ten minutes when the Purple Monsters showed up. There was
handshaking all around, talk a little while, then they moved off into two
separate groups. A few civilians came by to make sure this was the place
they'd heard about.

"Park your cars out of sight, if you got 'em," said Lucius. "We don't
want the cops to think anything's going on here."

Vinnie strut-walked over to Lucius.

"This crowd's gonna be bigger than I thought. I can tell."

"People come to see somebody drink some piss. You know, give the
public what it wants…" Lucius smiled.

"I guess so. I got this weird feelin', though. Like, you know, if your
mother tells you she dreamed about her aunt, like right before she died
and all?"

"I know what feelin' you mean, but I ain't got it," said Lucius.

"Who you got doing the electrics?"

"Guy named Sparks. He was the one lit up Choton Field."

At Choton Field the year before, two gangs wanted to fight under the
lights. So they went to a high-school football stadium. Somebody got all
the lights and the P.A. on without going into the control booth.

Cops drove by less than fifty feet away, thinking there was a practice
scrimmage going on, while down on the field guys were turning one
another into bloody strings. Somebody was on the P.A. giving a
play-by-play. From the outside it sounded cool. From the inside, it looked
like a pizza with all the topping ripped off it.

"Oh," said Vinnie. "Good man."


He used to work for Con Ed, and he still had his I.D. card. Who was
going to mess with Consolidated Edison? He drove an old, gray pickup
with a smudge on the side that had once been a power-company emblem.
The truck was filled to the brim with cables, wires, boots, wrenches, tape,
torches, work lights, and rope.
 "Light man's here!" said somebody.

Lucius shook hands with him and told him what they wanted. He
nodded.

The crowd was getting larger, groups and clots of people drifting in,
though the music wasn't supposed to start for another hour. Word