Reduce Intellectual And Emotional Noise

I Feel As If I Am An Ad For The Sale Of A Haunted House: 18 Rooms $37,000 I’m Yours Ghosts And All.

I'll Think About Things For Thirty Or Forty Years Before I'll Write It.

I Drank Coffee And Read Old Books And Waited For The Year To End.

There Was Something Dead In My Heart. I Tried To Figure Out What It Was By The Strength Of The Smell. I Knew That It Was Not A Lion Or A Sheep Or A Dog. Using Logical Deduction, I Came To The Conclusion That It Was A Mouse. I Had A Dead Mouse In My Heart.

Excuse Me, I Said. I Thought You Were A Trout Stream. I'm Not, She Said.