Lillian On Life (2014)
“She sits up straight and tall as an Egyptian sculpture, front feet daintily aligned. After a while she falls asleep and her tiny detailed mouth drops open a little. She emits a string of miniature crystal beads. Even when she drools it’s dainty.
There wasn’t a day in Europe and New York when I didn’t wish I had a pet, but how would it have been for the poor thing with me off on trips and visiting lovers? And I don’t think any of my beaux felt particularly kindly toward animals. More than on...e of them got annoyed by how easily animals distracted me when we were out together. Once, with Ted, I went mushy over a tottering old dog, and Ted said, “Lillian, its teeth are disgusting.”
“Won’t ours be one day?” I snapped in response, and immediately regretted it, not so much because of the shift from disgust to dismay on Ted’s face but more because of the image from Death in Venice I had conjured in my own mind. Horrible book. And my bottom teeth were a little wonky already, so it was best not to draw attention to them.MoreLess
There wasn’t a day in Europe and New York when I didn’t wish I had a pet, but how would it have been for the poor thing with me off on trips and visiting lovers? And I don’t think any of my beaux felt particularly kindly toward animals. More than on...e of them got annoyed by how easily animals distracted me when we were out together. Once, with Ted, I went mushy over a tottering old dog, and Ted said, “Lillian, its teeth are disgusting.”
“Won’t ours be one day?” I snapped in response, and immediately regretted it, not so much because of the shift from disgust to dismay on Ted’s face but more because of the image from Death in Venice I had conjured in my own mind. Horrible book. And my bottom teeth were a little wonky already, so it was best not to draw attention to them.MoreLess
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