How do you answer a four-year-old? (Everett will turn four on the fifth anniversary of German reunification. We'll take him to Amsterdam, interrupting the German book tour between Hamburg and Berlin; Amsterdam is a pleasant city for Everett to enjoy his birthday in, and we'll thereby avoid the celebrations and/or demonstrations that will doubtless mark the anniversary of reunification in Germany.)
"What are you listening to, Daddy?" Everett repeated.
"'Claudio's Nose,'" I told him -- trying out my new title.