Gym Class Heroes

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school years. “Have you picked a doctor yet?” I said, after I’d finished my leg lifts. My quads were screaming, particularly the damaged one in my left leg. We were in the gym where JB worked, and it was after hours, because I wasn’t a member. JB’s boss had okayed the temporary arrangement to keep JB happy. JB was a huge asset to the gym; since he’d started working, new female clients had increased by a noticeable percentage. “I think so,” said Tara. “There were four choices in this area, and we interviewed

men: one dead, one British, and one crazy. Robert Louis Stevenson said, “The only art is to omit.” Tony Cox, a fabulous British writer: “Inside every fat ad there’s a thinner and better one trying to get out.” And then there’s Neil French, one of my heroes and an absolutely stellar writer from Singapore. I was lucky enough to meet him one day, and he walked me through a wonderful exercise in in the art of omitting, of reductionism. He started by drawing a thumbnail sketch of a typical ad (number one