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Se(a)son 2 Memoirs of Death, chapter: Dichotomy (1947)
The screenplay for "Meet Nero Wolfe" was spread across the table, almost as a pretense for an argument between the two men in that dark living room. Smoke from the cigarettes reeked; the windows had not been open for quite some time. The air was heavy.
I was, of course, there in the room listening to the conversation between the two hunched figures. Each wore smudged glasses. Each sported a mustache. One of the men looked furious. He stood suddenly and began to pace.
“You’re going to get us all locked up, Herbert!” he shouted at his comrade, “You were already walking a fine line changing the scripts and putting in winks and nods to the stuff no one is supposed to know. And now you’re just talking freely about it all!"
Still sitting, the other man glared at him and lectured in a sharply raised voice, "You’re becoming paranoid, Robert. You know damned well it can’t be connected to your "Lord from Egypt" theory or any of your research."
"I told you not to call me that,” the nervous, pacing man indignantly barked, “that is not my name and you know it.”
"But it is your nom de plume, isn’t it? You hide behind it like a mask?"