Sunday, August 31, 2008

What Not To Do by Anthony McCarthy

This Just In: At the Labor Day Weekend party, in mixed company, including young children and your 90-year-old mother, as you are answering the observation by your niece that you have not read her a single word of the Harry Potter cycle this summer, do not suggest as an alternate selection “Sets, Relations and Functions” by Selby and Sweet. At least not unless you enunciate very, very, very clearly.