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...doc followed Bert's advice. He opened an office in Washington, but when he got married he bought a house across the Potomac in Arlington County. He paid Virginia state income taxes, and, in fact, eventually became a good friend of the state tax collector. When one of his daughters grew up and began filing federal income tax returns, he helped her fill them out. But for 30 years, Chiropractor Meyers never paid a cent of federal income tax himself. Bert's misinformation had "cocooned" in his mind...
...least, that is what the doc said when an income-tax agent dropped into his office a few months ago, and interrupted his three decades of bliss by asking to see his income-tax returns...
Rouse tried to make Homer sound to modern ears as he must have sounded to those who first heard his stories centuries ago. "The first essential," Pound had said, "is the narrative movement . . . Everything that stops the reader must go . . ." Sometimes Rouse did stop the reader ("NO, NO! Doc," Pound would cry), and sometimes he became entirely too free ("Just plain damn bad. Careless, frivolous. Missed opportunities all over . . ."). But gradually, his work was finished to suit even Pound's taste. "Homer speaks naturally," Rouse said, "and we must do the same...
...cigar after each one, a little whisky to regulate the heart, a cheerful disposition to relax the system, a healthy skepticism to clear the mind of notions, and a sane moderation in exercise and bathing, either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took it himself and lived almost 90 years. Mary, his sister, smoked chewing tobacco in a clay pipe, let a pet black snake have the run of her house, and outlived two husbands. When, in the hospital...
Last week Francine called the police station, complained that the doctor had been punching her around, and gave the go-ahead signal. The bluecoats opened the confession, stared at it with gaping jaws, and then took off after the doc like Keystone Cops after a pie-thrower...