Vance, I did one thing for forty-one years and most of it was extremely boring.

Let me have this one.”

Gerald Lipinski died two years and four months later.

I went to the funeral.

There were perhaps sixty people there and I was the only one who was not family or a neighbour, and his daughter asked me, kindly, how I had known him, and I said that her father had kept a piece of paper for seventeen years that nobody had asked him to keep.

And she said: “Oh God, the unit.