Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 6/18/04: It's better to lie than to go to school.

Jacob Lawrence, "Television" (1945) — Jacob Lawrence, *Television* (1945)

June 18, 2004:

It's better to lie than to go to school.

Books and reruns. The Lord of the Rings, over and over. The Dick Van Dyke Show; Perry Mason; Gilligan's Island. Hot dogs; cereal; bacon and eggs. Well again by the time she comes home.

She thinks it's hypochondria.

The loneliness of old TV shows.