A Heaven of Words by Glenway Wescott

Author:Glenway Wescott [Wescott, Glenway]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

DECEMBER 12

At 6:30 a.m., homeward bound (via Penn Station and Trenton and the bus to Stockton), in East 55th Street, in a cold but not freezing rain, I met a beautiful boxer dog, with no master anywhere in sight, presumably abandoned or lost. He turned and lifted his fine black-muzzled, white-starred face to me, hopefully. I am not a dog lover but his face in the icy dark downpour moved me.

In the mid-30s I had to live with a boxer dog and learned to feel some affection for him; but my emotion concerning this dog did not derive from those old circumstances. It was pity for those who love me and need me now, whom I can scarcely help, and it was self-pity, colder and darker than I have known in many years.

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