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As I am, routinely, the only man in the dining room for Sunday boarders' lunch, perhaps they dress for me. I'm going to be an incontinent idiot, my grandmother said; she looked directly at Owen Meany. Army offered-Military History and Small Unit Tactics; stuff like that, not terribly taxing. He at times played a see-through, glass-topped piano, and he was proud of mentioning the hundreds of thousands of dollars that his p

OR THE EARLY FIFTIES, said Owen Meany. Merciful Heavens! my grandmother said. I don't think my mother would have been fond of Sinatra's politics, but she liked what she called his early voice, in particular those songs from Sinatra's first sessions with Tommy Dorsey. ' That's some dangling clunker there, isn't it?'' Claire Clooney asked me.