...r business and from a window in one of the walls they would place orders for French Cream Cheese sandwiches. They were the oddest creatures in the Lau... ...t instead to go on vacation outside of it. In the morning as she was burning French toast for the boy she told him that they would go to the beach. A... ..., pasta, and scrambled eggs that usually came out all right and pancakes and French toast that had a 50 percent chance of being burnt beyond recognit... ...f the world, which had to be done alone --a sense that she engraved onto the interior walls of her brain the way the ancient Egyptians chiseled eulogi... ...nd that they who were the benefactors of the world like presidents and prime ministers should be paid the least. She argued that only then, when equa... ...of course it was invariably. Occasionally she would sketch her ideas of the interiors of faculty lounges, secretary offices, and other miscellaneous ... ...nd then she would have to admit that she did not "know the first thing about interior design." And yet the same aversion that she had toward holding h...