2011-09-23 // 10:22:07
recurrentdream
Do explain this fear to me. Where did it stem from?

"being publicly offered an open banana."

I also have a fear of mirrors at night too.

^ Every other morning for 18 years, my father would offer me an open banana shortly after I'd come down into the kitchen. They were always half-bananas, the top segment having been sliced off into his bowl of cornflakes the previous day. The remaining half would have been folded back into the limp, blackening skin and placed in the fridge waiting to be offered to me. Every other morning I would recoil from the offer - the smell of bacon fat, the sight of milky rivulets within my father's beard, the rotting truncated fruit in it's brown-black clammy-powdery skin: these elements would combine to produce a feeling of deep early-morning revulsion. I felt disgust but could not show it. I felt obliged to always pretend to be considering taking the open banana but to ultimately claim that I "somehow didn't feel like it this morning". This was to prevent him from noticing that I NEVER took the banana. I wished to at all costs avoid provoking a lecture about nutrition followed by some ridiculously militant regime of enforced banana-eating. To this day, the idea of being offered an open banana in a situation in which I cannot politely give vent to my disgust still fills me with dread.

2011-09-23 // 01:47:39
dracula

Now dress him up in 11 more outfits and come up with the sequel to Adrift.

What a happy dog.

^ Adrift with dogs! What a plan. Sort of like "Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds" »link Or the "Life of Christ in Cats" »link

2011-09-22 // 20:42:07
g.
you are.
I'm sure Bartolo does appreciate this. Sure in different ways. And I'm sure 'appreciate' sounds not perfectly perfect here. But I'm sure otherwise he wouldn't have met you.
Animals are most.. well, you know by now, I guess.

^ Thanks for that. And yes - I get the strong feeling that Bartolo is relieved to have found his people in the world, even if his new life is still a big challenge sometimes. Dogs may experience the world differently, but when you get to know one well, you soon see that they have long memories and deep psyches and that they should be treated sensitively. It makes me happy to watch his progress. It could have been so much worse.

2011-09-22 // 18:21:54
nnini
you are amazing

^ Thank you!