“Actually, no, not since high school, eons ago. My wife and I live in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.”
“Please forgive all the questions, but I couldn’t help noticing your reading material. You seem to be quite ‘academic.’ Are you an historian?”
“No, not really, though I have become fascinated with history in recent years. My wife and I are actually high school English teachers…”
You can’t be serious, I thought, as horrible memories invaded my myth of tranquility.
“Oh, I see,” I replied with some sense of dis-appointment now, having fully expected that he would launch a strategy to convince me of the merits of a discipline which, I was persuaded, was hopelessly arcane and irrelevant to the ‘real’ world, and which I had always found to be dreadfully boring.
“So, I presume that you’re brushing up on your literary material and preparing for classes in the fall?”
Much to my surprise, I now found myself widening the inquiry, drifting increasingly ‘off course’ from my original intention.
“Actually, I am drafting a quasi-fictional, auto-biographical novel, focusing on my relationship with my father.
Did He say ‘quasi’? Is that related to ‘quintessential,’ or just queer?
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