ABSTRACT
Sooner or later, immersed as I’d been in a new and foreign place and culture, I was bound to make a mistake. This one was colossal, and yet, in all fairness it really wasn’t my doing. It was all the fault of a Hollywood film director named Tim Burton. (Sorry Tim, granted your screenwriters and other creative collaborators also played a role, and granted I should have screened your material ahead of time). Anyway, here’s what happened:
