Word: emond
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Take the narrator of the opening story, Accountant. Outwardly, as Abba Roth tells us, he is the picture of upwardly mobile success: "We live in San Rafael, California, and I work at Priebe, Emond & Farmer, the San Francisco firm, where I have worked since the last days of the Eisenhower administration. At one time or another we have owned a Shetland pony, dug a swimming pool, leased a summer cottage at Lake Tahoe, and given generously to the Israel General Fund . . ." Inwardly, he is trying to come to grips with an irrational act of petty theft he committed against...