Stories Only Happen To People

So Stapes Conducted A Dinner For Just The Two Of Us, Then Informed Me Of A Dozen Small But Important Mistakes I Had Made. Setting Down A Dirty Utensil Was Considered Crude, For Example. That Meant It Was Perfectly Acceptable To Lick One's Knife Clean. In Fact, If You Didn't Want To Dirty Your Napkin It Was The Only Seemly Thing To Do.

If I Seem To Wander, If I Seem To Stray, Remember That True Stories Seldom Take The Straightest Way

I Do This So You Cannot Help But Hear. A Wise Man Views A Moonless Night With Fear.

I Like Your Manly Bravado," She Said. "do It Some More.

You Do Not Know The First Note Of The Music That Moves Me.