Bickerers

Sal and I love to bicker. It's how they show affection, W. explains to our hosts. Canadians don't need to bicker, W. explains to Sal and I. They're open-hearted, open-souled. It's the expansiveness of their country. It's the Yukon, which is really the heart of Canada.

We come from a tiny island, he tells our hosts. We're like rats crawling over rats. We have crabbed souls, W. says. Of course, W.'s soul, because of his childhood in Canada, is a little less crabbed than that of Sal and I. He's not a bickerer. These two are bickerers, he says to our hosts of Sal and I, but he's not a bickerer. He can behave in company.