Books: The Hour of the Hoo-Ha's

FIVE A.M. (173 pp.)−Jean Dutourd —Simon & Schuster ($3).

When you're alone in the middle of the night and you wake in a sweat and a hell of a fright When you're alone in the middle of the bed and you wake like someone hit you on the head You've had a cream of a nightmare dream and you've got the hoo-ha's coming to you . . . And perhaps you're alive And perhaps you're dead Hoo ha ha Hoo ha ha Hoo Hoo Hoo

−T. S. Eliot

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