A Permanent Member of the Family (2013)
“But it has more or less become a family legend and consequently has been much revised and, if I may say, since I’m not merely a witness to the crime but its presumed perpetrator, much distorted as well. It has been told around by people who are virtual strangers, people who heard it from one of my daughters, or my son-in-law or my granddaughter, all of whom enjoy telling it because it paints the old man, that’s me, in a somewhat humiliating light. Apparently, humbling the old man still gives pl...easure, and not just to people who know him personally.
My main impulse here is merely to set the record straight, even if it does in a vague way reflect badly on me. Not on my character so much as on my ability to anticipate bad things and thus on my ability to have protected my children when they were very young from those bad things. I’m also trying to reclaim the story, to take it back and make it mine again. If that sounds selfish of me, remember that for thirty-five years it has belonged to everyone else.MoreLess
My main impulse here is merely to set the record straight, even if it does in a vague way reflect badly on me. Not on my character so much as on my ability to anticipate bad things and thus on my ability to have protected my children when they were very young from those bad things. I’m also trying to reclaim the story, to take it back and make it mine again. If that sounds selfish of me, remember that for thirty-five years it has belonged to everyone else.MoreLess
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