(All dialogue guaranteed true)<\/p>\n
Mark: “Now that I’ve won, I can go to sleep.” (gazing down, admiringly, at his laptop’s “free cell” screen at 10 pm)<\/p>\n
Me: “Remember that Walter Kirn book I mentioned the other day?” <\/p>\n
Mark: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” (still looking down)<\/p>\n
Me: “The one about the impostor…” <\/p>\n
Mark: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” (still looking down)<\/p>\n
Me: “I just started reading it.”<\/p>\n
Mark: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” (still looking down)<\/p>\n
Me: “You’re not listening to me.”<\/p>\n
Mark: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” (still looking down)<\/p>\n
Me: “I said you’re not listening to me!”<\/p>\n
Mark: “Huh??? Yes, I am.”<\/p>\n
Me: “What am I talking about?”<\/p>\n
Mark: “Uh…”<\/p>\n
Me: “Remember? The Kirn book? I was telling you about it the other day.”<\/p>\n
Mark: “Oh yeah.” (surreptitiously typing.)<\/p>\n
Me: “You’re looking up “Kirn” in Google aren’t you?”<\/p>\n
Mark: “Of course not! I remember you talking about Bruce Kern.”<\/p>\n
Me: “I’ve never even heard of Bruce Kern. Stop trying to cheat with Google.”<\/p>\n
Mark: “I’m not trying to cheat.”<\/p>\n
Me: “Yes you are. I’m talking about WALTER Kirn’s book about the Rockefeller impostor.”<\/p>\n
Mark: “Oh, yeah. Jay Rockefeller and the Hamptons.”<\/p>\n
Me: “No! “CLARK Rockefeller. Driving a crippled dog from Montana to Manhattan.”<\/p>\n
Mark: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”<\/p>\n
Me: “I give up!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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