Herbert, Sydney, Milton, Seymour. You know, all the time I was growing up I thought those were the most ordinary Jewish first names, until someone pointed out that they were British last names. I guess to my great-grandparents those names must have sounded so modern, so sophisticated, so - non-Eastern European. And now they're just Uncle Miltie, Uncle Sy, Uncle Herb. Do other people have Uncle Donne and Uncle Wordsworth?

They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.

An epitaphic is the writinge that is sette on deade mennes toumbes or graues in memory or commendacion of the parties there buried.

Here, under the marine layer, time and space are illusory, and definition is as hard to come by as an uncloudy day in June.