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If they haunt this place, they do it with such Episcopalian good manners that no one has so far noticed them.
Jesus! Who would have us? We look like a couple of gutshot iguanas!
Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.
Tantalizing? Here’s a hint: it’s bigger than a bread box and smaller than the planet Jupiter.
“As for what’s inside the barn,” I tell them, “it’s the worthless secret of a silly old man, as the world will discover when I have gone to the big art auction in the sky.”
And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.
“How much education did she have?” she asked. “One year of high school,” I said. Mrs. Berman shook her head in wonder. “What a year that must have been,” she said.
