"What makes you think you know who or what I'm drawing?" I can because it is a self-portrait and also a portrait of me. We both have lost our meanings...of life. You're much too young to be feeling that way, and I'm much too old to care, but I think I have to care about you. Something in your manner and that drawing are calling me to write about you and your misery. I think that we're tied together in some way by some invisible string. You draw and I write; that's how we'll survive the tragedies. ” Pausing as if she were expected to justify her comment she added, “It would be nice for someone to be there to take pictures,” chuckling as if she had been joking.Amanda asked, “Have you ever thought about swinging?”“By swinging,” Mary responded, “do you mean swapping spouses with another couple?” She knew what Amanda meant but it always seemed necessary for her to make sure that the obvious was being stated. Lately, whenever she thought about something involving Amanda, she felt she had to. After just a few days, he nolonger required Elmer's little helping touch spell to make him feelcomfortable about being Miranda on stage. And now, he casually strodeabout the stage with such graceful feminine ease in heels he noweasily wore without giving them a second thought. The basic resultwas, when Elmer put the wig on Milt's head, he became Miranda. And,as her and without the spell acting as a crutch, she no longer calledElmer daddy, except, occasionally, when they were by. “But...” was all Phoebe managed before he said, “Out!”Naturally Phoebe worried all weekend what this meeting was about. Does he want to sack me? Is it promotion? Am I being moved to some other job? She found it increasingly difficult to concentrate on anything, or even to sleep, which was precisely the effect David had been aiming for by the timing.Monday came and the regular Monday Meeting where any problems were aired and the previous week’s progress reviewed, leading to any necessary plan.