Avram always insisted that never happened. We were near-neighbors at various times over the years. I think he was probably the most learned man I ever knew. I never knew anyone likehim. Snail mail will have to do, I'm afraid.
Carrier pigeons are nice too.
I want to finish it for him - it'll be a way of keeping him with me, at least for awhile. Anything that makes me laugh at the time. Mostly they go, and it's probably just as well. But I can't not write funny, even when the book or the scene is intensely serious. In time, if you stay with it, your own style inevitably forms.