one
o'clock in the morning
He did n't , so Lenny proceeded to do exactly what he had promised to do . He went off to dreamland . He had not been absolutely sure , when he made the promise , that he would actually do just that , but the odds were in favor of it . It was now one o'clock in the morning in Moscow , and Lenny 's brother , Raphael , was a man of regular habits . Lenny reached out . When he made contact , all he got was a jumble of hash . It was as though someone had made a movie by cutting bits and snippets from a hundred different films , no bit more than six or seven frames long , with a sound track that might or might not match , and projected the result through a drifting fog , using an ever-changing lens that rippled like the surface of a wind-ruffled pool .