{"id":6398,"date":"2026-01-05T23:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-neighbor-koontz-dean\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:48:49","slug":"the-neighbor-koontz-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-neighbor-koontz-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neighbor – Koontz, Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I\u2019m an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers. Had I ever been that<\/em> kind of axe man, I would long ago have cut off both feet or been crushed by a toppling tree. I\u2019ve been clumsy all my life. I have managed not to stumble into an accidental death only because my profession\u2014I\u2019m a musician\u2014doesn\u2019t require me to deal with power tools or treacherous terrain. Axe<\/em> is musicians\u2019 slang for instrument<\/em>, and my axe is a saxophone. I have been playing it since I was seven, when the sax and I were nearly the same size.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fifty-nine now, two years older than Jonah, my best friend of half a century. I\u2019m tall, and Jonah\u2019s not. I\u2019m white; he\u2019s black. When I first met him in the summer of 1967, Jonah was ten and quick and graceful, a piano prodigy, and I was twelve and lumbered around like Lurch, the butler in The Addams Family<\/em>, which had been big on TV the previous year. When I first heard him playing, he rocked the keyboard with Fats Domino\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday.\u201d In both our lives, 1967 proved to be\u00a0\u2026\u00a0unforgettable.<\/p>\n

At my insistence, Jonah recently talked his life\u2014or at least a strange and tumultuous portion of it\u2014into a tape recorder, and his story became a book titled The City<\/em>. There isn\u2019t any point in talking my life, because most of the interesting parts are what happened when I was hanging out with Jonah; he\u2019s already covered that territory. I do have one little experience to recount, however, a curious series of events that occurred a few weeks before I met him. Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time, when we\u2019re plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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