'Our neighbourhood theatre in Gentilly has permanent lettering on the front of the marquee reading: 'Where Happiness Costs So Little'. The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their livers: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise ... What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man', Binx Bolling, the novel's narrator; the author's first book.
