• Gabriel to his big brother Evan. The entry in my diary begins thus: “15 May 1993 — Wrestling in bed this morning, Evan accidentally knocked Gabriel onto the floor. Gabe was not a little peeved. He stood up rubbing his smarting head, and exclaimed … ” word for word what you see above. His words are written in uppercase in the diary. He shouted them. But from his first days to this day he’s always been inveterately verbal and enthusiastic, so that his voice was then and is even now, a good deal of the time, an uppercase voice. One thinks of Owen Meany. It was Owen who said, “LOVE MAKES PEOPLE DO STUPID THINGS!”