We encountered a gentleman on E. 61 St. who said he'd read, a couple of years ago, our note on the lady who holds that the force of gravity is stronger in London than it is in N.Y. He said the lady is a close friend of his & suggested we hear her theory of the population explosion. We invited the lady to have a drink with us at the Three Crowns. She said: "The exploding-population theory is absurd, because the earth is being used by other planets and stars as a breeding place for souls. I'm not in the least religious... Well, obviously the other planets and the constellations and so on need a lot of souls out there. I can't think why, but they do. So we're being used as a breeding place for souls. The more the merrier. We can't possibly have too many souls for them to take care of."
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