Gut Symmetries
“The Algonquin Hotel; Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, The New Yorker, my father in 1957. He had stayed there because it seemed so English and when he brought me to New York for the first time as a child our reservations were at the Algonquin Hotel.
He had booked his old room and even packed a tie he used to wear in those days. Red silk with little white polka dots, he never would say who had given it to him.
'Never tell all thy love.' Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other peop...le keep fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained.
Mother said: 'Why didn't you tell me?' Father said: 'There was nothing to tell.' I am my father's daughter.
She and I would be approaching the place from opposite ends of town. I imagined her, angry, confident, ready to match me and beat me at my own game.MoreLess
He had booked his old room and even packed a tie he used to wear in those days. Red silk with little white polka dots, he never would say who had given it to him.
'Never tell all thy love.' Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other peop...le keep fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained.
Mother said: 'Why didn't you tell me?' Father said: 'There was nothing to tell.' I am my father's daughter.
She and I would be approaching the place from opposite ends of town. I imagined her, angry, confident, ready to match me and beat me at my own game.MoreLess
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