HE GAVE MY PLACE TO HIS MISTRESS. OUR SON GAVE ME THE COMPANY

and credit were separate things.

It could not erase the moment I stood outside the photograph.

But it could create a record.

Sometimes that was enough.

I reached the stage.

“When I was twenty-four,” I began, “I believed that if an idea was good enough, the truth of its creation would protect it.”

The audience listened.

“I was wrong. Ideas do not protect themselves.continue reading …