I did a few investigative things myself following Anna Geller’s visit. The first was to call the operator and request the telephone numbers of all the A. Gellers in Canada, which I found out numbered only five. The second—which I did after telephoning all the A. Gellers and discovering that not one was named Anna or related to an Anna—was to call the operator again and request the telephone numbers of all the Gellers in Canada, which I was told numbered one hundred and one and would cost me twenty-five cents each or twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents in total. I was also told that the one hundred and one numbers couldn’t be conveyed to me over the telephone because of the length of time it would take, and that they would have to be printed onto a document and mailed to me and that a
