Tenth Man

It surfaces in the novella's introduction, that when Greene's attorney was notified by MGM that they were considering filming his brief World War II piece, he was puzzled; after all, wasn't there but a two page treatment of a script idea? I told my wife earlier this afternoon, that I obviously don't know what it means to be 75 nor to have penned dozens of novels; but how fascinating it remains to ponder the possibility of having forgotten that one once penned a nearly 120 page novella? I greatly enjoyed the tale's tension, the standard tropes of guilt and flight.

I may read another 100 pages of Moby Dick this evening as we're going to an outdoor concert of the Louisville Orchestra.