Beagle_Tyrants - The Monday Morning Memo

Jimi Hendrix is at left, in the backline of Buddy & Stacy as they do “Shotgun” on Night Train. (1965)

“Not only have we never seen a house like that, we’ve never seen the kinds of things that belong in a house like that. Poor Mommy. Maeve shook her head at the thought. She was terrified, like he was going to shove her into a roomful of tigers. She was saying, ‘Cyril, this is someone’s house. We can’t go in there.’

This was how it had gone for the Conroys: one generation got shoved in the door and the next generation got shoved out. ‘What about you?’

She thought about it. ‘I was a kid, so I was interested. I was upset for Mommy because she was so clearly petrified, but I also understood that this was our house and we were going to live here. Five-year-olds have no comprehension of real estate, it’s all about fairy tales, and in the fairy tale you get the castle. I felt bad for dad if you want to know the truth. Nothing he was trying to do was going right. I might have even felt worse for him than I did for her.’ She filled her lungs with soft gray smoke and then sent it out to the soft gray sky.”

- Ann Pratchett, The Dutch House, p. 174-175

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