Re: [Breakfast bros.]
[Affirmation, Jude said, and Oliver seemed to calculate his way into contentment with that. If it was good enough for Jude, it might have been worth considering for his own methods. The discussion of art was worthy of detraction, and Oliver made quick work of ascending the stairs, getting syrup all along the rail on the way up.]
There's a guy who drinks coffee at the diner late at night, he says I can draw him. [And into his room, Oliver rummaged through stacks and stacks of paper, dozens of half-formed or unfinished pieces of Billy portraits. There were a lot of eyes, a lot of mouths. Finally, he found a sketch that was mostly complete. It was the one he'd drawn the night in the diner. Oliver passed it up to Jude from where he took a seat upon the floor.]