Vertigo: a story

HERE IS a man stripped of a great deal of of what he thought of as his life. His son is dead, his work is gone his mother fading, his daughter not upon at college and when they speak upon the phone they have nothing to say. This summer this fall, he have the appearances deep in dream. He's thick, this Daniel Bergoff: thick-jawed, balding, a chunky brawny man, a one-time wrestler, with material substance hair and long heavy eyebrow half gray, half black, not someone you'd wait for to be a dreamer. A gorilla, dreaming? He'd been comptroller and chief financial officer for a high-tech company in