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Is this an interview? I mean, I would've

had my hair done or something.

No, no, no.

Just getting the vital statistics.

- Down?

- No, thank you.

Continue.

Well, my parents were both teachers

in the public school system,

so we didn't

have much money.

Um, I've read every New York newspaper

backward and forward...

for the past 15 years.

Mm-hmm.

I don't smoke. I only drink champagne

when I'm lucky enough to get it.

My hair is naturally natural.

I live alone.

- And so do you.

- How do you know that?

Because you're wearing

one brown sock and one black one.

You're right!

If you lived with anybody,

they would've told you.

That's one of the advantages of living

alone... nobody tells you anything.

- Up?

- Yes, yes. Thank you, thank you.

Nice place.

I found it the other day

when I was in the building.

- Have you been up here before?

- Many times... in July.

Lunch.

Now, we have, uh, roast beef

and ham and cheese.

- You can have your choice.

- Oh.

A picnic.

Ideal place for concentration.

Isn't it?

No waiters, no people, no telephones.

No central heating.

- Plenty of hot coffee.

- Mmm.

Have a seat.

Thank you...

Oh.

Now, I have a kind of

a personality questionnaire here.

Some of these questions

may seem a little silly to you,

but you'd be surprised what they

indicate about general intelligence...

and adaptability and so forth.

And they may also be a bit

of a tease for your memory.

Oh. A tease, huh?

Just answer the question,

you know, without, uh, dw...

- Don't dwell on the question.

- Mm-mmm. I won't.

"Uh, often when we meet people

for the first time,

"some physical characteristic

strikes us.

What is the first thing

you notice in a person?"

Whether the person

is male or female.

Uh, this is a little

mathematical problem.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, uh, celery and olives?

Four olives, three pieces of celery.

- Right.

- Uh-huh.

Uh, that doesn't happen

to be the question.

Oh.

Now, "A train started out

at Grand Central...

"with 17 passengers aboard

and a crew of nine.

"At 125th Street

four got off and nine got on.

"At White Plains,

three got off and one got on.

"At Chappaqua

nine got off and four got on.

"And at each successive

stop thereafter...

"nobody got off, nobody got on till the

train reached its next-to-the-last stop,

"where five people got off

and one got on.

Then it reached the terminal."

That's easy.

Eleven passengers and a crew of nine.

Uh, w...

That's not the question.

I'm sorry.

"How many people

got off at Chappaqua?"

Nine.

- That's correct.

- Yes, I know.

Uh, would you mind telling me

how you arrived at that conclusion?

Spooky, isn't it?

Did you notice that there are also

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