I was about to be mugged by a man br with a chain so angry he growled br at the Lincoln Center subway station br when out of nowhere appeared a tall br chubby-faced Hasidic Jew with peyot br and a black hat a black coat white shirt br with prayer-shawl fringes showing br we walked together out of the station br and when we got outside and shook hands br I noticed he was blind. Goodbye, br I said, as giddy as a man waking br from an anesthetic in the recovery room, br happy, with a hard-on.