Saturday 19 April 2008
MY SALAD WAS A MISTAKE
Well, someone else was doing the brisket, which would have carrots and potatoes, and someone else all the symbolic foods, and someone else the dessert, so I said I’d do a salad. Not that anyone but me wanted one all that badly, but I thought [...]
SEX WITH ANIMALS
Plan C often likes to imagine how shocked our children would be if they knew what we were doing, e.g. spontaneously deciding to have oral sex on the sofa at 11 in the morning.
I also like to try to shock Plan C, arguing (as I did that morning) that anything [...]
I wanted to do a complete and detailed interview, but Plan C clams up at the thought that what he says will be published, however anonymously. So I’ll offer here the snippets of conversation I was able to record. He’s so much better off the page……….
And oh yes, please note:
1) I am entirely [...]
No, this isn’t a post about adultery.
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Plan C is a widower.
Yesterday he was telling a good friend of his late wife’s about me, and (he said) he told her, ‘Mimi understands that W [late wife] is part of the package.’
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I’m speaking of the material kind: not love or praise or cultural or spiritual legacies or anything, but stuff, the kind of stuff that can be passed from hand to hand or wrapped in boxes with paper or ribbon or delivered in the mail.
Lest there be confusion or uncertainty here, let me say right away [...]
The time: c. 11 pm Saturday 29 March
The place: my apartment
The actors: Plan C, me
The event: Plan C is crying.
And why is he crying?
Because D3 (one of my daughters) is ‘so beautiful.’
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Have I mentioned that Plan C is very emotional? and sentimental?
Well, he [...]
