Albert Bierstadt the oregon trail painting

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goes for, though he sure as hell likes those." -- "He made a pass," Chamcha guessed; and, simultaneously, filed the information away for possible later use. "He's totally shameless," Allie laughed. "It was right under Gibreel's nose. He doesn't mind rejection, though: he just bows, and murmurs _no offoffoffence_, and that's that. Can you imagine if I told Gibreel?"
Chamcha at the railway station wished Allie luck. "We'll have to be in London for a couple of weeks," she said through the car window. "I've got meetings. Maybe you and Gibreel can get together then; this has really done him good."
"Call any time," he waved goodbye, and watched the Citroën until it was out of sight.
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That Allie Cone, the third point of a triangle of fictions -- for had not Gibreel and Allie come together very largely by imagining, out of their own needs