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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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Jim

James Allen — Jim to his friends, of which I was fortunate to be numbered among.

Jim was a friend of my family from about 1966 onward. He used to hang out with my sister and her friends, and when I grew old enough to be interesting, with me as well. Jim was extremely intelligent, funny in a bitter, pointed way, and someone I was proud to call my friend.

Jim was eventually hired to work for my mother at the family's literary agency, and for many years he worked hard and learned the details; eventually, he ran the business for several years while my mother was indisposed. He did an extremely good job, dealing with issues that ranged from the Delaware river flooding the premises to problem employees with personalities like a cross between a skunk and a porcupine, and of course everything in the normal course of the agency's operations.

Something that particularly sticks in my mind is that Jim was absolutely vicious when it came to board games; we played many a Scrabble and chess game, and I don't think I have ever met anyone else who took the outcome of the game, as opposed to the game itself, quite so seriously. He was better than I was at Scrabble; I was better at chess; but we were close enough on both fields of battle, as it were, to make the outcome uncertain. Once I moved away in my twenties, Jim found further entertainment in joining complex card games and dealing out mayhem.

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