"I decided I knew nothing. Friends put me in touch with a Miss R., a teacher, unorthodox they said, excellent they sai…"

"“... Some people,” Miss R. said, “run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might poin…"

"The balloon, beginning at a point on Fourteenth Street, the exact location of which I cannot reveal, expanded northwa…"

"I met you under the balloon, on the occasion of your return from Norway; you asked if it was mine; I said it was. The…"

"I went to the plain girl fair out Route 22 figuring I could get one if I just put on a kind face. This newspaper here…"

"K. at His Desk He is neither abrupt with nor excessively kind to associates. Or he is both abrupt and kind. The telep…"

"K. Puzzled by His Children The children are crying. There are several children, one about four, a boy, then another b…"

"I spoke to him then about the war. I said the same things people always say when they speak against the war. I said t…"

"At that moment the son manqué entered the room. The son manqué was eight feet tall and wore a serape woven out of two…"

"The old Commissioner’s idea was essentially that if there was a disturbance on the city’s streets—some ethnic group c…"