I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as...
I teach one semester a year and this year I'm just teaching one course...
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but...
I open with a clock striking to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time which is four o clock in the morning and saves a description of the rising sun and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.