Yawn... I believe that I love sleep much more than anybody I’ve ever met. I have the ability to sleep for2 or 3 days and nights. I will go to bed at any given moment. I often confused my girlfriends this way—say it would be about onethirtyin the afternoon:“well, I’m going to bed now, I’going to sleep…” most of them wouldn’t mind, they would go to bed with rethinking I was hinting forsexbut I would just turn my backhand snore off. This, of course, could explain why so many of my girlfriends left me. As for doctors, they were never any help:“listen, I have this desire Togo to bed and sleep, almost all the time. What is wrong withe?”“do you get enough exercise?”“yes…”“are you getting enough nourishment?”“yes…” they always handed me aprescriptionwhich I threw away between the office and the parking lot.it’s a curious malady because I can’t sleep between6 p.m. and midnight.it must occur aftermidnightand when I arise it can never be before noon. And should the phone ring say at 10:30 a.m. I go into a mad raged on’t even ask who the callerisscream into the phone: “WHAT ARE OUTCALLING ME FOR AT CHISHOLM!” hangup…every person, I suppose, has their eccentricities but in an effort to formalin the world’Martha overcome them and therefore destroy their special calling. I’ve kept mine and do believe that they have lent generously Tom existence. I think it’s the main reason Decided to become writer: I can type anytime andsleepwhen I damn well please.