"I have tried to write the fragments of a comic story about a boy who decides to observe himself, distinctly grading and catergorising his moods and dispositions and tabulating them on graphs and charts in order that - when he is asked how he is - he can simply spread out the sheets and point to the oscillating graphs like a periodic table. It is an ironic phatic question of course; not in some mouths but in the vast majority." ~ B.A.