The Lecture

“You might say something—

about stream of consciousness,"

Mr. Crabbin said nervously.

"Be gentle with them.”

—Graham Greene

The Third Man

“Stream of what???”—

Said Holly Martin looking

Rather puzzled at the poor

Besieged Society members           

Holly was making quite—

The impression with the

Viennese coffee-klatch

Literary types at the lecture

“How do you spell Zane Grey?”—

And other pointed questions

About Stein, Woolf & somebody

Named Daphne du Maurier

Signing his signature—

The fake name of “B. Dexter”

For the boring, complacent ass

Author of “The Curved Prow”

“Lavatory? Is there a lavatory?”—

Asked Holly making his great

Escape, obviously the Viennese

Literary types not into Westerns