Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning

    Donald Barthelme      

K. at His Desk

      He is neither abrupt with nor excessively kind to associates. Or he is both abrupt and kind. The telephone is, for him, a whip, a lash, but also a conduit for soothing words, a sink into which he can hurl gallons of syrup if it comes to that...

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