I Do Not Take Any Pleasure Whatsoever

My Father Read 'the New York Times,' My Mother Did Secretarial Work, We Had A Dog, We Had A Garden, I Had A Brother.

A Story Begins And It Always Passes From The Subjunctive To The Declarative. And Italians Don't Seem To Care About Making A Fine Distinction Between That Which Is Speculation And That Which Is Fact.

The Germans And Austrians Are Very Polite, The Swiss Are Very Reserved And The Spanish Usually Kiss Me. The Brits Write Me Letters.

Sit Around The Bars, Talked To People, Ate In The Restaurants, And Chatted With The Old Ladies On The Street. Fishermen Are Pretty Much That Way.

All Through Graduate School, Instead Of Having A Television I Read Murder Mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.