Characters in Batman and Robin Have an Altercation

… the backyard, drinking and hollering at each other (Dory Sanderson has been dead for fifteen years and the three Fredericks boys, no longer boys, moved away long ago). There’s an old joke about Alzheimer’s: the good news is that you meet new people every day. Sanderson has discovered the real …

In his oversize sunglasses and wool topcoat, he looks quite a lot like Uncle Junior, that old gangster from The Sopranos. “I’m Dougie,” Sanderson says. “Your son.” “I remember Dougie,” Pop says, “but he died.” “No, Pop, hunh-uh. Reggie died.

When the orderly on duty—José, Pop’s favorite—asked why he did it, Pop said it was because that fucking Gunton wouldn’t turn down his radio. There is no Gunton, of course. Not now. Somewhere in the past, maybe. Probably. Lately, Pop has displayed a kleptomaniacal streak.

When the orderly on duty—José, Pop’s favorite—asked why he did it, Pop said it was because that fucking Gunton wouldn’t turn down his radio. There is no Gunton, of course. Not now. Somewhere in the past, maybe. Probably. Lately, Pop has displayed a kleptomaniacal streak.

“Right! Norma Forester opened the door, and to you she says—before you could—she says, ‘Trick or treat?’ Then she looks at me and says, ‘Trick or drink?’ ” Pop makes a rusty-hinge sound that Sanderson hasn’t heard in a year or more. He even slaps his thigh. “Trick or drink!

He can usually be counted on to remember Sanderson’s name and the relationship, but he sometimes calls Sanderson Reggie, the name of his older brother. Reggie died forty years ago.