Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer entertained an audience of more than 600 in Sanders Theater last night by reading two of his short stories on life in a Warsaw ghetto.

The lecture, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, was highlighted by the humor and wit of the 81-year-old writer, who also fielded questions from the audience.

In the first of Singer's stories, a fictional character named Dr. Gottlieb was the main character in "The Missing Line," and reasoned that there must be a rational explanation for even the most mysterious events.

Specifically, Gottlieb was able to logically explain how a line of text from his submitted analysis of Emanual Kant ended up in a news article on rape in an entirely different publication.

"Who was it who said that 99 percent of all writers don't die of cancer or consumption [tuberculosis] but of printing mistakes?" Gottlieb quipped, after discovering that the misplacement was due to printer error.

The second story Singer read. "A Piece Of Advice," was a more serious and religious piece that featured a man trying to control his wild temper. The man learned from a Hasidic holy man to flatter even those people he really wanted to insult.

The moral of the story, said Singer is "don't listen so much to your emotions; freewill is expressed best in deeds not in feelings."