Good appreciative response to my little Chaucer spoof today. Hey, it makes

a change. A couple of readers wondered if I was aware of a similar one done

by Judith Wax on Watergate. Yes, I was. Can’t remember any of it at this

distance in time, but Judith was a very good writer, and my bet is her

Chaucer was funnier than mine. She died very horribly, by the way, with her

husband Sherman(? — he was an editor of Playboy), in a plane crash in

Chicago in 1979, when an engine fell off the plane while taking off. Her

son converted to Hinduism, and was a leading light of the Hare Krishna

sect… Don’t know what happened to him subsequently.