what had happened was she turned her head and the lights around the top of the nearest grain storage tower had shone on her face for a moment , shone on it in a certain way , and in that moment the whore was rose , the bitch who had walked out on him without even leaving a note , without leaving so much as one fucking word , and before he knew what he was doing he had the halter wrapped around the whore 's neck and the whore 's tongue was sticking out of her mouth and the whore 's eyes were bulging out of their sockets like glass marbles .