This three sentence summary provides the key details from the passage: The passage is a surreal collection of vignettes involving a smoking chimney, a woman named Miss River whose coffee maker explodes, two maroon eyes that witness an apocalyptic landscape, a man named Ezekiel masturbating after reading from the Torah, blood dripping on the floor, and a gray dog that licks coagulated blood and bites a softer part. The vignettes continue with references to the dead and living, a mother saying the living are harder to live with than the dead, and end with a character dying under a billboard that says "Happiness is not bought, it is built."