The Melancholy Korean

“Goethe.”

“Goethe?”

“Yes. When we were in high school, he was always going on about the Sorrows of Young Werther.”

“I’m not familiar with that one.”

“Harry, I don’t believe you’re the moron that the freak says you are. You remember. It’s the one with the diary entries. He must have read it to you.”

“Diary entries.”

“It’s extremely suggestive.”

“Suggestive?”

“Of a totally disturbed personality. A freak.”