Times book review section and other such places saying we’re writing a book, or to make it believable, a monograph or dissertation about him and need all his letters and correspondence of any sort and anything they might have of him — magazines with his work and newspapers with reviews of his work and interviews and articles about him and first editions and autographed copies of his books and anything else of him or of his like photographs and galleys and even old hats and clothes he might have given away or left behind and someone’s still using or saved, which we’ll promise to reimburse them for the postage and send back special delivery express and heavily insured — and dump all these too. Go to prison for it if we have to, but first making sure we got all his books out of every prison library too. And if that doesn’t work, then we should just give up thinking it’s any of these things influencing our odd behavior regarding him and to form a group of two for group therapy to work his influence away or just to see why it’s still there so. Or maybe we should do that first, avoiding all the expense and hassles and time put in and so forth of getting rid of everything we can of his. Anyway, what else is new with you, just to change the subject? No, because I’m deeply interested and always have been. Oops, suddenly must flit. Tingaringing and bingalinging and beginning of inter-inner office commingling besides the coffee and morning roll cart clink-clinging down the corridor, which if I don’t make a move for fast will be past my door. ‘Hey Jake,’ I just yelled without seeing him yet and only the tip of his cart, ‘a black coffee and plain danish as usual with maybe a few almond shavings which fell off some of the almond danishes on the tray — and don’t tell me they didn’t if you do have almond danishes today — sprinkled on top. Ah, just give me an almond danish and sugar with my coffee this time, and cream, or milk, or whatever you got that passes for them — I aim for change.’ See you soon, Dachshund. At least me hopes.”