The Pleasure of My Company (20 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank my
diligent and inspiring editor, Leigh Haber, as well as my conscripted friends
who were forced to read various drafts and held in a cellar until they offered
in-depth commentary:

Sarah
Paley, Carol Muske-Dukes, Deborah Solomon, Sherle and John, Victoria Dailey,
Susan Wheeler, April and Eric and Mary Karr. I would also like to thank Ricky
Jay, who in minutes assembled a short treatise for my enlightenment on magic
squares from his own amazing library. And Duke.