The Bombayment Method

August, 1981

There are only five people in this world who know what happened to that lost airline baggage in the Montreal winter of 1958, and I'm one of them. I have no idea where the four other people are today: out there somewhere, I trust, swarming around in the great plankton; gone to convents or madhouses, who knows? It was a long time ago, and when it was all over, we five went our separate ways, never to meet again. It was as if our only common destiny was to come together in those months for the sole...