To the editors:
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Apparently, he attended a third rate stenography school some time between his “conducting a seminar on a Sioux reservation” and “pissing in the baby pool.” He is able to retell the story line of a play. But he has the annoying habit of the loud mouth who gets first tickets to the latest “who done it” then spills the plot and names the culprit. Do you editors give him a quiz to make sure he showed at the theatre?
As for his reflective faculty–in his own words: “Then I applied what I’d learned to my own life. And I still had nine minutes and 50 seconds on my hands.” Perhaps it was at this time he remembered “discussing a short story by Chekhov . . . a woman was proposing an interpretation . . . she was articulate and made a sound argument. When she finished, the man . . . leading the discussion . . . said, ‘So what?’ . . . None of us could respond.”
Bill Murphy
