A Most Miraculous Organ

A Most Miraculous OrganThe first to arrive was Haskell, the Eng. Lit. man, a specialist in the Elizabethan period. He had made full professor just the month before, and already he was cultivating the longish hair, the briar, the tweediness and the abstracted gaze he felt his role required. The briar kept going out. Obscenely sucking and smacking at it under a match flame, he said, "Hullo, Fairbank. Am I early?"His host replied, "Right on time. The others are late. They'll be along...