The Piper's Fife - Marquis, Milton H
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Nearly thirty, Jack is still on the road. Lilly, wealthy, rapidly approaching middle age, is bored. A serendipitous meeting on a long, cross-country flight ... Jack: "During those past six years, I was confronted with a raft of unfamiliar situations -- sometimes hostile, sometimes ennobling, often wondrous, occasionally demeaning or inhuman, and not infrequently, simply lifeless or fatiguing ... I trusted a private credo back then that would spin itself round in the back of my mind: `You endure what you must, learn what you can, and take your pleasures wherever you find them'. And I'd rely on…mehr

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Nearly thirty, Jack is still on the road. Lilly, wealthy, rapidly approaching middle age, is bored. A serendipitous meeting on a long, cross-country flight ... Jack: "During those past six years, I was confronted with a raft of unfamiliar situations -- sometimes hostile, sometimes ennobling, often wondrous, occasionally demeaning or inhuman, and not infrequently, simply lifeless or fatiguing ... I trusted a private credo back then that would spin itself round in the back of my mind: `You endure what you must, learn what you can, and take your pleasures wherever you find them'. And I'd rely on whatever I could to get by. '' "Sometimes I felt like Franz Kafka's Joseph K. Other times, like Voltaire's Candide." Lilly: "I had my own 'credo' when it came to these kinds of overtures. There were two essentials. The man must show me respect and he must be rich." "I made it clear that I was not to be his intimate 'girl Friday, ' as long as he was married."
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