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| Secret Key |
Why attend presentations of interesting papers or go to smashing London sites when you can spend better than an hour racing from here to there because the skeleton key to your rented flat won’t turn the lock (after working fine for days)? [3other neighbors tried, by the way, it wasn't just me.] And what are the chances of two keys failing, including the porter’s key, and then a third key succeeding--a spare I’d never used but had placed in a hollowed-out volume of
Error and Inference, and kept in an office at the London School of Economics? (Yes, that is what the photo is! A anonymous e-mailer guessed it right, so they must have spies!) As I ran back and forth one step ahead of the locksmith, trying to ignore my still-bum knee (I left the knee brace in the flat) and trying not to get run over—not easy, in London, for me—I mulled over the perplexing query from one of my Ghost Guests (who asked for my positive account).
