I may now be allergic to the early, funny Woody Allen. Much of this reads like a U of C undergrad badly imitating Groucho Marx. There are some high points. "He suggested man was a creature doomed to exist in 'time' even though that was not where the action was." The Kafka parody "The Diet". The variation on Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich "The Shallowest Man." The restaurant reviews in "Fabrizio's: Criticism and Response."