A Writer Is A Spectator, Looking At

We're Persecuted In The Most Civilized Languages.

We Can't All Be Friends And Relatives As The World Is; Most Of Us Have To Be Strangers.

Reader, I Am Myself The Subject Of My Book; You Would Be Unreasonable To Spend Your Leisure On So Frivolous And So Vain A Matter.

Overnight Business Could Go Down Enough To Hurt; Yet As A Rule It Slowly Recovered-sometimes It Seemed To Take Forever-went Up, Not High Enough To Be Really Up, Only Not Down.

The Short Story Packs A Self In A Few Pages Predicating A Lifetime