owen declares ownership of my thought process
"reagan declares
firmness of gulf;
plans are unclear"
""we have a generation of people who are angry to look forward to,"owen said. "and maybe two generations of people who don't give a shit, " he added."
"the americans were lost' they couldn't find the Bishop Strachan school or the chapel--they had a new york license plate and no understanding of how to pronouce strachan.
"Where's bishop stray-chen?" a woman asked me.
"bishop strawn," i corrected her.
"what?" she said. "i can't understand him," she told her husband, the driver. " i think he's speaking french."
"i was speaking english," i informed the idiot woman. "they speak french in montreal. you're in toronto. we speak english here."
"do you know where bishop stray-chen is?" her husband shouted.
Iit's bishop strawn!" i shouted back.
"no, stray-chen!" shouted the wife.
one of the kids in the back seat spoke up.
i think he's telling you how to pronounce it," the kid told his parents.
"i don't want to know how to pronounces it," his father said, " i justwant to know where it is."
"do you know where it is?" the woman asked me.
"no," i said. "i've never heard of it."
"he's never heard of it!" the wife repeated. she took a letter out of her purse, and opened it. "do you know where lonsdale road is?" she asked me
"somewhere around here," i said. "i think i've heard of that."
the drove off--in the direction of st. clair, and the reservoir; the went the wrong way, of course. their plans were certainly unclear, but they exhibited an exemplary american firmness."
"nacy reagan says hearings
have not affected president"