henry has never forgotten that haunting fragment and will sometimes recall it at the oddest times : after losing his virginity at a unh fraternity party with 'smoke on the water ' pounding through the speakers downstairs ; after opening his paper to the obituary page and seeing barry newman 's rather charming smile above his multiple chins ; feeding his father , who had come down with alzheimer 's at the ferociously unfair age of fifty-three , his father insisting that henry was someone named sam .