JOE AMALFITANO. Physical: 55. 5’10. Medium build, wavy brown hair, brown eyes, Italianate features, Roman nose, muscular. Social: PhD in English Literature, retired college professor, ex-Trappist monk, non-practicing nominal Catholic, married to a Jewish woman, Becky, a New York City Board of Ed administrator. Writing a novel based on his early and current experiences. Emotional: Driven by early religious implants, philosophical rather than practical, lives more in his head than in his current surroundings, very contradictory, mercurial, good-natured, lov-ing, short-fused, passive, discontented MURRAY PUTTERMAN. Physical: 86. 5’ 8. Stocky, about 180 pounds, thinning white hair, merry brown eyes, al-ways a little smile, needs cane, problematic knee, recuperating from heart attack, on medication, very constipated. Social: Emigrated with mother to USA from Poland in 1925, harsh father, one year of col-lege, almost CPA, salesman for clothiers, WWII veteran, saw action in Europe, Ann his wife of 40 years dead several years, father of Becky, Joe’s wife. Emotional: High family values, doesn’t suffer fools gladly, a man’s man, enjoys women (blondes), sensitive to how he’s viewed by others, contradicts values when human necessity is more demanding, optimistic, encapsulates points of wisdom with Yiddish/Hebrew expressions, very constipated from medications and appreciative of a good bowel movement