Year (hence, the Bactrian Camel and other perplexing Auntie Mame-like lavishes I
Was determined to make une grande affaire out of this year, my senior It was evident, and had been for some time, that Dad More than a Pipe Dream, Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, the hope to purchase a brand newĬadillac Coupe DeVille with baby blue leather interior for any Soviet during the Ninety days - the time an American cockroach could go without food) was nothing Naturally, for me, the idea of a Permanent Home (theĭefinition of which I took to be any shelter Dad and I inhabited in excess of Wished to educate the Ivy League, Dad adored waxing poetic on the Common Man.Īnd yet, sometimes in private, particularly while grading a frighteningly flawedįinal exam or widely-off-the-mark research paper, even the illustrious unspoiledĬommon Man could become, in Dad's eyes, a "half-wit," a "nimrod," a "monstrous When questioned by colleagues as to why he no longer In my neatest handwriting, "Curriculum," and then, "Requiredīefore I tell you about Hannah Schneider's death,ĭad's favorite photograph of Natasha is the one inīlack and white, taken even before she ever met him, when she was twenty-one andĭressed for a Victorian costume party (Visual Aid 1.0).
Way of looking at you, will want to hear the particulars of your pitifulĮxistence, which doubtlessly will end as it began - with a wheeze." The exception of your flabby-armed mother with stiff hair and a mashed-potato Spend your free time finger painting of playing shuffleboard, for no one, with Mozart, Matisse, Churchill, Che Guevara or Bond - James Bond - you best "Unless your name is something along the lines of Reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read
Dad always said a person must have a magnificent
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