A New Chapter In The Human Comedy

July, 1964

A New Chapter in the Human ComedyWhenever Homer Macauley left a hotel room just before checking out, he did two things, as if an important personal ritual would be belittled if he didn't.He looked for the Bible, opened it at random, and read a sentence or two. If he felt he ought to get to the bottom of the whole story that had been started in the one or two sentences, he put the Bible in his suitcase, so he could finish reading the story later at his leisure. If he didn't, he put the Bible back...