"He looked over her shoulder."Emmmm, Heller's "Catch 22"." Yes, we have to do a paper on a work characteristic of dark, satiric humor." Well, that one... surely fits the bill. It has you laughing out loud one moment and crying in despair the next." Isn't that the way life is?" she asked. "Isn't life itself filled with both joy and sadness and do we sometimes not even have time to savor the joy before the sorrow closes in on us?" Well put. Perhaps the existentialists have something there after. While they couldn't pin point the place or date where or when he wouldarrive, they could aim for it to happen within a 220 square mile area oftheir choosing, and a date anywhere from from 23 to 36 years before thedate of their birth of the traveler, the machine could have been set fordates closer to the leave time, but Gordon wanted to take no chances at aneven even weirder version of the McFly scenario taking place and havingone of his Time Crashers end up in their own mother or father! At. Jay realized that the passion he felt for his wife was fading as she got older and her body was not the same as it used to be. Jay's oldest daughter Anna was a senior in high school and she enjoyed her school year as a cheerleader, working part time, and hanging out with her friends in the weekends. Jay never minded his Anna having her friends over. They were always so young and beautiful and he liked to talk and act cool around them flirting a little. Jay's favorite friend of his daughter. His hair was dark on the crown and silver around the temples and back of his head. “Welcome to the neighborhood,” he smiled at Elliott.“Thank you! How long have you lived here,” inquired the newcomer.“Four years. You retired?”“Oh yeah! Two years now.”“How do you like it?”“I love it. How about you?”“Same here,” chuckled the grandfather. “What kinda work did you do?”“I was in education.”“A teacher. High school?”“Actually, I spent the last twenty years in higher ed administration.”“Good for you,”.