The Noise
March, 1959
The NoiseDr. Kabat looked at Barnaby Hackett with the calm, masked gaze of the psychiatrist."You've told me a great deal in a very short time, Mr. Hackett," he said, "and I may say I have rarely heard so complex a matter so lucidly stated. One thing you didn't tell me: when did you first notice this phenomenon?""The first time I noticed it I did tell you," Hackett said. "That was when I was in the second grade in Kill's Bluff, when Miss Grench had Tommy Barstow...