Iris Has Free Time
“MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN MARTIN WAS TWENTY-FOUR when we met and had been working for two years as a paralegal at a large firm in Manhattan. He opened his letter of acceptance to law school before our third date, and told me in a cab stalled in traffic crossing Central Park that he’d be starting in the fall. He was a year older than me, born and raised on the Upper East Side, had asthma since childhood and an unexpectedly muscular build. He was passionate about ideas, paradoxes, and also efficiency; he... lectured me on escalator etiquette—“the right lane is for standing, the left for passing”—and on making trash as compact as possible by crushing orange juice and milk containers to reduce volume. “You’re throwing away air!” he complained, holding a carton I’d just discarded. He blushed easily, always told the truth, and wore glasses that required constant adjusting. “Life,” he told me, adjusting them, “is about learning.” He taught me tennis (or tried), the correct way to eat sushi, and how to open a bottle of beer with a plastic lighter.MoreLess
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