Jun 22, 2005 00:36
it was wonderfully simple.
you just sat very erect,maintaining a clearance of four or five inches between your top hat and the roof, and you stared ferociously ahead at the windshield.
if death-who was out there all the time, possibly sitting on the hood-if death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
chances were, you could take your cigar with you, if it was a clear havana.