People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me **Notes of a Dirty Old Man** turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself ‘King Arthur’ and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: ‘I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.’ I send him away. . . The only date on the copyright page is 1969, but it has a 13-digit barcode, which makes it impossible that this book came out in 1969.