Callahan's Secret by Spider Robinson

Author:Spider Robinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780425100592
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2002-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Answers to Doc Webster’s Riddles:

The category is “Male American Politicians,” or any variant thereof. The individual answers are:

a) irrigated; laser pistol = runneled; ray gun =

Ronald Reagan

b) Nazi; cook lightly = Jerry; brown = Jerry

Brown

c) British punk; knowledge, current = Teddy; ken, eddy = Teddy Kennedy

d) chicken coop; foreplay = hennery; kissing

her = Henry Kissinger

e) wealthier; nuts to = richer; nix on = Richard

Nixon

An embarassing thing happened. Astute readers will have noted that I also left riddle He) unsolved. When. the responses started coming in, I discovered that this riddle had proved the hardest: everybody wanted to know who “coffm;

baby boy” was. The problem was that I had, by this point, mislaid my first draft of “Pyotr’s Story”-and I had forgotten the solution. To my horror, I found that I could not figure it out myself!

After months of shame, I sat bolt upright in bed one morning and realized I had the solution again-so I incorporated it into the story you are about to read, “Involuntary Man’s Laughter.”

One last word about “Pyotr’s Story,” though. If by any chance you missed its several respectful salutes to William Goldman, I hope you will seize the next opportunity to run out and purchase his immortal classic, The Princess Bride.

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