Reaching the ultimate secret was no problem ... but could I follow it up with an encore? About this thing, I couldn't stand to have them laugh. Not the way they did about the swimming. "Oh, come now. No one could learn to swim by reading a book. Five-eighths of a mile the first time in the water!" And they laughed. I guess I laughed, too. More than any other thing, I've wanted people to be happy. But I never swam again—only that first time. I've always read a lot and sometimes things I've read d