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63REFLECTIONS ON KAFKA
“The attacks. Yesterday a walk with the dog in the evening.”Kafka’s DiaryJuly 27, 1922 Under the light of the streetlamp the dog stopped to scratch. A thin almost stick figure in a dark...
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62Buck Wynn
It was a ranch about fifty miles southwest of Austin. That’s where Buck Wynn lived with his cattle and small four-seater Cessna, a plane that sawed like a gnat through the infinite sky above the...
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61THE NEWCOMER
Bill Ogden lives in the house next door to ours, on the left, that is, if you’re looking from the street. The small porch is well protected from the sun, with ivy climbing up the side of the red...
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62HELEN OF PENNSYLVANIA
In earlier days, I guess they would have marked her for a witch and done the customary indignities. Today, Helen was just someone who followed the carnival circuit of Central Pennsylvania in the...
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58The Kiss
I think they were from Alabama, the Watsons. The mother, wide and fleshy, was a good deal taller than her husband; he, thin and nervous, was a dead ringer for the famous Jack Sprat and spent most of...
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57BUGSY'S
Bugsy of course was not his real name but what else were you going to call him if you were never introduced? Anyway, in a joking sort of way that is what everybody called him and he always took it...
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56HALLIBURTON
Photo by Vincent Montenegro “Sara loves the Halliburton. I hope you didn’t get rid of it. That would be a shame,” was what my father said when I returned. This was the large travel book filled...
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55ALICE AND JACK
Alice and Jack were friends of ours, old friends of my parents, yet new when they were finding their way in the sun-baked days of bright New Mexico in the forties. Like my father they were both...
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55CRISIS BY THE RIVER
It was a moment of serenity leavened with dread beside the Colorado River, where the yellowing branches of the willows had already resigned themselves to fatigue in the rushing of the surface...
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