Original Airdate: January 28, 1974

Episode 0023 "Three Women"

Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

I have a story for you about a writer, a writer of books. We all know what it is to read a book. We all read. Sometimes to learn, sometimes to pass the time, sometimes to experience a life unrelated to our own, and sometimes to surrender ourselves to the fantasies of a person we have never met and will never meet. But what is it to write a book? Ah? That's another thing altogether. But what difference does it make? All the difference in the world.

What is a book? Two, three, four hundred pages of words lying side by side in rows. That's all. Words we all know. Many of them we use. Nothing mysterious about the wor ...