May 21, 2013

Ghost writer

(1980 memoirs)
In the spring we were taking a walk and talking about some graduation exercises.  "What did you think of so-and-so's address?" Lorin wanted to know.  "Well," I said, "I thot it was very very good, especially for him.  I never thot he was capable of talking so well, let alone writing up a speech like that."  Then a teasing smile came over Lorin's face.  "He didn't."  "What?"  "I wrote it for him."  It was only then that I recalled the speaker a day or two ago running across the campus toward Merriman Hall shouting for "Kay!"  So he must have been fairly well known for this art.

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