– I’ve been thinking about writing a book about my various entanglements with ladies of the opposing gender.
– You must be more stupid than you look. I had not thought that possible.
– But I think it could be fun, not just for me but also for the reader. And instructive.
– I am mind-boggled. Instructive in what way?
– Well, how to do it and how not to do it, for one thing.
– I have to ask: what do you mean by ‘it’?
– Oh, there’s more than one ‘it’, frankly.
– Do tell.
– Well, there’s choosing the right and the wrong, plus there’s ‘The Art of Love’, in which, over the years, I have become quite accomplished.
– I withhold comment. Would you write about all the ladies in your life, or just the ones you went half on the rent with?
– Oh, not all. I can’t remember them all. When you get to my age the memory starts to go. I might have to make some stuff up.
Martin Stannard
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