They arrived on the ninth of July in two boxes on my doorstep, signature required, and the invoice was three hundred and forty dollars and eleven cents.

Eleven hundred and forty pages.

Mine is the biggest — a hemorrhage and an ICU stay generate an enormous amount of paper.

Auggie’s is about two hundred.

Linus’s is three hundred and sixty-one pages for fifty-one hours of life, which works out at about seven pages an hour, and which is what it looks like when a large number of extremely qualified people try very hard for two days.

I told Davis I had a three-day curriculum workshop in Wisconsin Dells.