The Story of the Spinning Boy

In the years when the carousel was absent from Starling Park, the legend of the spinning boy had changed somewhat. The story had him running around in circles in the town's empty fields. When the carousel reappeared, those stories were set aside for the most part. For the first time in years I got lost within myself, and for ten or fifteen seconds I was no longer standing on the street watching that child study the rainwater. It's not inconceivable that such a thing can happen, my therapist had said. In Bonaparte you must think of Bonaparte as a kind of enclosed chamber with its own atmosphere and stimuli your system might not be prepared for. By