This book is dedicated to
Eleanore Stasheff
in recognition of her truly major contribution
The author would like to thank
Chris Clayton
and all the other good people,
such as Katharine Moore,
who have told me
of their own encounters with Finagle
The point has been raised that a fictitious saint shouldn’t be able to hear people cry out to him. However, those people are fictitious, too—well, most of them, anyway.