If there's no specific content in my contact, sometimes the attempted connection ricochets off the other person, leaving inside an empty line of thought going nowhere. A kind of forgetting . "You didn't remember!" as in not remembering someone on their birthday. Once you started looking for it, it took exactly ten minutes to find it- Kafka's "Investigations of A Dog."

What is a lack of wit if it isn't a moment of indecision. When the other moves into the zone of embarassment to counter you. (10/17/94)