He said, ‘Don’t say where.

Let them ask.'”

That is the whole case against Christian Dupont in one line, and it came out of the mouth of the man who wrote the sentence, unprompted, in the ninth hour, in answer to a question about editing.

Raymond Carver was not prosecuted.

He entered into an agreement with the suspension and debarment official under which he is excluded from federal contracting work for a period of years, which at sixty-three is effectively permanent, and he did not contest it.

I met him once, by accident, in the lobby of a building in Jacksonville in the following autumn.