“I read your manuscript… twice”
“Really?”
“Lemme tell you, it was something else”
“Oh yeah?”
“It’s like … I don’t know how to put it”
“Just try”
“OK … it’s like … Kafka on acid”
“Why, thank you very much!”
-–from work-in-progress, Our Heroic and Ceaseless 24/7 Struggle against Tsuris