For Mitt …
See "A Deskful of Girls" in Fritz Leiber's Selected Stories .
See also the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene in 2009.
… And for Clint—
From "Deskful":
I quickly settled myself in the chair, not to be gingerly
about it. It was rather incredibly comfortable, almost
as if it had adjusted its dimensions a bit at the last
instant to conform to mine. The back was narrow at
the base but widened and then curled in and over to
almost a canopy around my head and shoulders.
The seat too widened a lot toward the front, where
the stubby legs were far apart. The bulky arms
sprang unsupported from the back and took my own
just right, though curving inwards with the barest
suggestion of a hug. The leather or unfamiliar plastic
was as firm and cool as young flesh and its texture
as mat under my fingertips.
"An historic chair," the Doctor observed, "designed
and built for me by von Helmholtz of the Bauhaus…."