But one day she handed me some more letters from people who had been researching fruitlessly through old newspapers, hoping to find the "real" events. I remarked that it was sad they wasted so much time. "Yes," said Joan - and then, absently, "but something did happen." Whether the something happened in the newspapers, in some anecdote she has heard or in her imagination's interconnections with some other world or time, I had no idea- and I knew better than to ask.