I got back in my car in the car park and sat there for some period of time that I have never been able to account for, and then I drove back to South Sixth Street and did a deferred tax computation.

Six hundred and eleven times, and he went back to his desk afterward every single one of them, and did not tell anybody at home, because there was nobody at home.

Part Forty-Three: What It Cost

I want to do an accounting, because I have read a lot of these now and almost none of them do it, and the ones that do not are the ones that made me feel worse about myself.

Four thousand one hundred dollars for a funeral that the county would have done, in his own name, for nothing.