It’s a shaggy dog tale about the big one that got away. 800-plus pages for a lame punchline.

Yes, thankfully

Could be interesting. Jim Morrison was arrested for showing his dinky at a concert in Florida.

I guess I’d raise chickens and cats, and pit fight them.

Lord of the Flies had an impact on me. I read it in class and saw the movie at Berkeley. At the U, there was a guy shouting at passersby. Someone in my class said the guy was high. I was 15 at the time. The story and the adventure to the U have stayed in my memory for nearly fifty years.

“If it ain’t popping and sizzling, it ain’t cooking.” Where there’s no passion, there’s no love, basically. Don’t remember the book.