Alvin Thomas Jewitt, asked me to write my life history and autobiography for him (that is the way he put it: “Will you write it up for me, Charlie?”) I thought of a poem by Browning. It is called “Porphyria’s Lover.” It is quite an interesting poem, and I remember in particular four lines. A woman is in love with a fellow but they cannot do anything about it. She comes to see him to say she will marry someone else and the fellow wonders what to do. The lines go: I found a thing to do, And all her hair in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around, And strangled her. Perhaps that says more than anything I can say as to my reason for this — crime??? — Excerpt from “The Boring Story of My Life,” prepared for Dr. A. Jewitt by Charles Wright RUSSEL LOFTON stepped out of the shower and grabbed a towel to dry himself. When he was finished he put the towel around his waist and looked at the profile of his figure in the full-length mirror.
