images danced crazily in his mind : terry grabbing his belt-loops and yanking him tight to her belly as he began to come , the best orgasm of his life and it had gone nowhere but into his pants , tell that one to ernest hemingway ; coming out of the pool at the bel-air , laughing , hair plastered to his forehead , holding up the beer-bottle as the cameras flashed ; bill harris telling him that going across country on his motorcycle might change his life and his whole career , if he was really up to it , that was .