I~ v ，t:< :ainin!A i:~ m!: part of ilk. cotmtry on Fcbrua~v ~7， 197t. q!~e
rcas，，m I remember lies l)cfo:e me nmv on my desk: a copy ot7 the New
York Timus Breed; ITc>icu: for that date. ()n its first pa~c b; a picture of
Philip t~ahv， dark and (aintlv mctmcinM as in life. The ，Gaze is heavy-
lidded， exotic; h~~ mi~ht l)e a diamoild mc~chaut in Antwerp or a rns-
terious a~ent oil the old ()ticnt Express. ()nlv the mam，sc ript in his
hated .and the books at his elbow coavcv that his bus:it，~:ss had b~ en
with lit~ratmc. I Ic had died more than a month earlier， and the Timex
had then ~ivcn him a respectable obittmtv. It mi~zht have sethat vo，，ld bc it.， that a ~rcat iwwspaper， blisy with all the large and
small affairs of the world， havinj， now &me its duty by him~ vcmld
]rove passed on. But there s:，c!detdy ho was; and when I opt:led the
paper that mornirlj<， I jumped with surprise， as if Ilahv himself had
ct~t~:r(，d i:]~o T O~mL I lqncw there vou]d t)o ~.o surcease of memories
that day. Well then， let the ghosts come as they would， wreak their
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