I saw "A Thousand Clowns" again last summer.  I fell in love with the girl again and I was just as impressed with Murray Burns.

Scene:  the abandoned Chinese restaurant under Murray's apartment in the Bronx.

(Enter Murray and his brother.)  Murray is trying to explain why he walked out on several job interviews that morning.

He speaks:  "One day several months ago I was riding the commuter train home from work, and for a few minutes I couldn't be sure, without really concentrating, what day it was.  It could have been a Monday, or a Tuesday, or a Thursday."

(As he mentions each day there are scenes of a crowded New York sidewalk.)

He speaks again:  "I gotta know what day it is."

For several weeks during June the Midway National Bank had on its bulletin board (which dominates the Snelling/University intersection) a slogan designed to make Twin Citians better people:

One weekend we went to a cabin on the St. Croix to help the owner clear the brush off his beach.  His son Geno, age five, played at helping us for a while, and then lay down on a lounge chair, closed his eyes and said, "This is living."

Murray Burns in the Chinese restaurant made me think that Geno O'Brien is at five years old ready to write material for the Midway National Bank, and that my twenty years had brought me to the door of that same Chinese restaurant--with a bad taste in my mouth from a big bank and a little boy.