I Can't Smell Moth Balls, I Find

Mirabelle Replaces The Absent Friends With Books And Television Mysteries Of The Pbs Kind. The Books Are Mostly Nineteenth-century Novels In Which Women Are Poisoned Or Are Doing The Poisoning. She Does Not Read These Books As A Romantic Lonely Hearts Turning Pages In The Isolation Of Her Room, Not At All. She Is Instead An Educated Spirit With A Sense Of Irony. She Loves The Gloom Of These Period Novels, Especially As Kitsch, But Beneath It All She Finds That A Part Of Her Indentifies With All That Darkness.

A Day Without Sunshine Is Like, You Know, Night.

To Have Someone Play Off And Be With A Band Is More Pleasurable.

Comedy Makes You Humble. Because There Are So Many Opportunities To Miss, And Strike Out.

Rebelliousness Really Is The Province Of Young People-that Kind Of Iconoclasm.