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...week before the New York Marathon I was in a cab on my way to La Guardia Airport. The cabbie, trying to make conversation, said, "You see all those cars going the other way? Those are the runners coming in for the marathon...
...woke up at 5:15 a.m. Sunday, put on my lucky shirt (a bright yellow t-shirt with OREGON emblazened in green across the front), shorts, and shoes, got some money for a cab, and went outside to hail a car to take me to the Public Library from where the buses would take the runners to the starting line on Staten Island...
...novel, a collection of articles past, and a nonfiction work on Ireland, a place he has not lived in since 1953. "I had a dream the other night," he remembers. "A voice with a brogue whispered, 'Would you moind puttin' somethin' down about me?' It was Nick, my cab driver from Dublin. I had been storing him for 30 years. How can you ever run out of ideas with a subconscious like that...
Excitement grew. Last Wednesday I hailed a cab and set off for the Bureau of the Public Debt, division of public debt accounting. I passed the Washington Monument, tall and splendid in the morning light, but only one six-hundredth as tall as Reagan's stack of $1,000 bills. Pressed on around the Department of Agriculture. What pikers! They have only 240 million bushels of surplus corn stored away. A nod down Independence Avenue to NASA. It would take one of their space shuttles nearly a year and a half in orbit reeling out end-to-end dollar bills...
After taking a cab from the Square to the Business School Thursday, he jumped out of the cab and quickly ran off without paying his fare...