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Phil's eyes widened. "Aggie Grant! She's an old family
friend! She was also my adviser when I got my M.A. in
modern lit. at Cornell. She's at Fredonia?"

"Emeritus. She retired last year. That's what I meant
by pulling strings. I'm her last grad student. I'm after a
doctorate in literature. In a few more months I'll be tak-
ing orals to see if I get to continue, and an M.A. in pass-
ing. I'm doing my work on novelists who became film
writers, on how work in films affects a writer's work in
print. I'm looking at writers who did both, like Fitzger-
ald, Runyon, William Goldman, Faulkner, and Clavell.
And of course yourself. Though mostly I'm working on
Fitzgerald. When I figure out the thrust of my disserta-
tion, I'll probably concentrate on him."

Phil smiled. "You put me in some fine company,
Jack."

"It's all pretty technical and probably pretty boring."
He looked embarrassed. "When the local papers printed
the word you'd bought this place, I thought I might im-
pose and get an interview with you."

Phil said, "Well, I'll help if I can. But I don't have
much in common with Fitzgerald. I don't drink as much;
I'm not having an affair with another writer; and my
wife's not crazy . . . most of the time."

"Thanks," said Gloria, dryly.

"I was going to call Aggie, and take a weekend and
drive up to Ithaca. I had no idea she'd moved. First
chance I have, I'll get up to Fredonia and see her. God,
it's been years."

"Actually, you don't have to go to Fredonia. She lives
on the other side of the woods now, right at the edge of
Pittsville. That's part of the deal. I double as something
of a groundskeeper, general factotum, and occasional
cook, though she prefers to putter in the kitchen most of
the time. She only runs up to the university when she has

to, commencements, a colloquium, guest lecture, the oc-
casional alumni function, that sort of thing."

"Tell Aggie I'll be over in the next day or two."

"She's at NYU for the next two weeks. She's editing a