11:45 PM
`` You _ do _ get melodramatic , do n't you , Dan ? Well , if you want to cut your own throat , that 's your affair . '' And Dan had burned , and told Paul to watch the teevies , he 'd see a thing or two , and he did , all right . He remembered Paul 's face a few months later , when Libby conceded at 11:45 PM on election night , and Dan rode into office with a new crowd of livewires who were ready to help him plow into New Chicago and clean up that burg like it 'd never been cleaned up . And the sweetest part of the victory pie had been the look on Paul 's face that night -- So they 'd fought , and he 'd won and rubbed it in , and Paul had lost , and hated him for it , until that mysterious day -- when had it really happened ? -- when `` that big-brained brother of mine '' changed subtly into `` Christ , man , quit floundering ! Who wants engineers ?