There are only the two of us here, in a house which appears on a map drawn in 1740. I have calculated that Claude’s and my house is twice as old as the theory that invisible germs can cause disease. A woman who knows a lot about cats, or pretends to, told me that white cats with eyes like Claude’s are deaf on the side of the blue eye. I have yet to devise an experiment that can confirm this, or, alternatively, to demonstrate that the woman is as full of shit as a Christmas turkey. I am 69 years old now, and my father didn’t go to the New World in the sky until he was 72, so I still have lots
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