If the furniture was still piled up, there'd be a folding table and chair for him, in an open space between the piles of boxes. He'd have his own milk and pot,

If the furniture was still piled up, there'd be a folding table and chair for him, in an open space between the piles of boxes. He'd have his own milk and pot, coffee and filters, toaster, breadboard, breadknife, butterknife, teaspoon and mug. He was a very generous man, but these objects he didn't share. The breakfast ritual took several hours, and involved a Swedish exercise routine near an open window, interspersed with reading the news and breakfast itself. The reading was not strictly passive, as it involved marking various articles with a thick red pencil, and then cutting them out, folding the cuttings, and saving a select few into his wallet for later reading.