“On New Year's Eve, I am home to the Future. I wait to hear her ring the doorbell of the world.1922”
“The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.”
“I offered her the benefit of my company this New Year's Eve, but informed her that as of midnight I should much like to insist that she refers to me as Master Oscar at all times. For that is whom I am, and I can't stress enough the importance of being Oscar.”
“So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party”
“New Year's Eve always terrifies me.”
“But in 1922 it was still a new thing to be a machine.”