Gibberish
December, 1990
GibberishUnless he spent the night with a woman and thus was obliged to make small talk in the morning, Ken Phipps's breakfast companion was the radio, tuned to an all-news station, but it was routine for him (unless some major catastrophe was being reported for the first time) to ignore the meaning of what was said while taking comfort from the sound of the human voice. He had usually caught the 11-o'clock TV news the night before. It was rare that anything happened overnight.This phase of his...