"Did you want to?"
     Shadow said best breitling watches nothing at all. He drove north, toward Chicago. Wednesday chuckled, and began to pore over his maps, unfolding and refolding them, making occasional notes on a yellow legal pad with a large silver ballpoint pen.
     Eventually he was finished. He put his pen away, put the folder on the backseat. "The best thing about the states we're heading for," said Wednesday, "Minnesota, Wisconsin, all around there, is they have the kind of women I liked when I was younger. discount uggs for women Pale-skinned and blue-eyed, hair so fair it's almost white, wine-colored lips, and round, full breasts with the veins running through them like a good cheese."
     "Only when you were younger?" asked Shadow. "Looked like you were doing pretty good last night."
     "Yes." Wednesday smiled. "Would you like to know the secret of my success?"
     "You pay them?"
     "Nothing so crude. No, the secret is charm. Pure and simple."
     "Charm, huh? Well, like they say, you either got it ugg boots on sale or you ain't."
     "Charms can be learned," said Wednesday.
     Shadow tuned the radio to an oldies station, and listened to songs that were current before he was born. Bob Dylan sang about a hard rain that was going to fall, and Shadow wondered if that rain had fallen yet, or if it was something that was still going to happen. The road ahead of them was empty and the ice crystals on the asphalt glittered discount uggs for women like diamonds in the morning sun.
     Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
     They parked outside a squat black brownstone. The sidewalk was clear of snow. They walked to the lobby. Wednesday pressed the top button on the gouged metal intercom box. Nothing happened. He pressed it again. Then, experimentally, he began to press discount uggs for women the other buttons, for other tenants, with no response.
     "It's dead," said a gaunt old woman, coming down the steps. "Doesn't work. We call the super, ask him when he going to fix, when he going to mend the heating, he does not care, goes to Arizona for the winter for his chest." Her accent was thick, Eastern European, Shadow guessed.