Thank You very much. B eing interrupted by Phil Donahue was of course entirely different from being interrupted by a subway rumble. It was a pleasure. T he busker glowed with Prime-Time Happiness, and for a few moments, deprivation took a backseat. It had been his dream to sing on the Donahue show, he said, not realizing that he had just been robbed of that too.
T here are big dreams and little ones.
Big Man the Lantern. Small man the Tallow-stick. Huge Man the Strobe Lights , he omitted to say. And Small Man the Subway Station . T he Housemasters would haggle with him as he trudged behind them with the boy's luggage, his bowed legs further bowed, cruel schoolboys imitating his gait.