Identity Parade

Will the real Robert C Day please step forward! Or all the rest of you step back – it makes no odds. Either way, I want to see who you are now. I want the scales to fall from my eyes so that I can see you truly.

Why do I say this? Because it strikes me that there are so many sides to me that I’m in danger of becoming less of a human bean and more of a geometrical figure (think about it, think about it). And who wants to hang out with one of those!

Actually, don’t worry about it. At the end of...