(c) If Christmas is snow, Easter is mud
When she ventures an unfashionable political viewabout how protesting Vietnam could beget a generalized skepticism of authority figures (not a crazy theory, by the way)Henry is embarrassed and slaps her down: Leave the thinking to me. So she sulks and blasts the opera, to broadcast her Italianate erudition
Cigar smoking became quite popular in Spain and Portugal
But I note the varying ways my father signs off to his mother: Leonard, Yours as ever, Leonard, up to Love, Leonard and even Love and kisses, Leonard. On cards to my mother he is Pip, Your Pip, As ever, Pip, Lots of love, Pip and All my love, Pip: rising gradations from the unreachable days of the courtship which led to my existence