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and so forth. I APOLOGIZE FOR BECOMING OVEREXCITED. He thought he was finished with Owen Meany. I preferred to think that the rooms we searched were more haphazard and less revealing than Owen imagined-after a

I STARTED IT-A COUPLE OF TIMES, he said. I suppose that she had not been an expert on dairy cows-or on cows of any kind-back then. WHAT WILL THEY SAY TO US? HOW WILL THEY HELP US? YOU CAN BE SURE THEY WON'T CURE US-BUT HOW WILL THEY COMFORT US? Quite probably, it occurred to me, she had been a better liar than a singer.