Literacy doesn't have to cost money — at least at even date, non-trust-fund kiddies can find and play with words.

Remember Tom's breakfast? In the kitchen, he didn't even have to stand and cross the room — just reached out with one arm for the coffee, with the other for the cereal.

Almost unrecognizable, if I remember right — the character was so worried and wound-up. Decidedly not Nicklike.

Mr. Moodnick's FAGIN got me through junior high school in Texas. Thanks and love.