Saturday, August 4, 2012, 2 p.m.

Be prepared to question your assumptions (and mine too).

"Do you remember when we thought a raccoon was getting into our garbage?"

Mary kept sewing.

"Turned out it was dogs."

Here's a link to a brief interview with Percival Everett in which he talks about Assumption and other things, including the crow that is sitting on his shoulder in the picture on the back cover of the book.

For something completely different:  A link to a Wikipedia entry which explains the jargon from  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.