Hello, I Said, I'm Late

Hello, I'm late. So sorry for any inconvenience. It's okay they said. What have you been reading? Well, you won't believe this, but I just discovered King Arthur and the Knights of the Table Round. Yes, go on, they said. What do you think? Well, said I, I rather like Sir Lancelot and Galahad, two of the noblest characters I've ever found in literature. Yes, but how much literature have you really read? Um. Right. That's a good point, because not much, given the vast...Well so what else are you reading? Any other thoughts? Well, yes, before King Arthur, I read 'The Greek Way' by Edith Hamilton...Yes Yes Yes, but what did you think? Alright then, well I liked quite a lot the parts about tragedy and pathos, you know and the differences between the two, and yes the comparison between Aeschylus and Shakespeare, and on to Sophocles and Euripedes...Well, well, they said, then that's something! I found I had hit upon something. And I said, yes well the part about the gentlemanly society of Plato and Socrates, you know, they all being in repose and reclining, drinking and conversing about Love and the Gods, and Justice and so on, you know, was really quite enlightening. Yes, yes, well before, what had influenced you from before? Well I suppose Curious George, really. Oh yes and the Hardy Boys and Boxcar Children. So you're saying you last read children's stories before diving into Plato? You missed quite alot in between then, didn't you? Well, I did discover Chabon with his release of 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'. Liked him more than Ellis, who I never read. And you see how he's done. Right then. Any others? Well a girl did give me a stolen library book of Jerzy Kosinsky's 'Being There' and I quitle like it. They made, you know, they made a movie..