Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DOG'S HEAD (149 pp.) Jean Dutourd-Simon & Schuster...
When Madame Du Chaillu gave birth to a son with a puppy dog's head, she was understandably distressed. "What will people say?" she cried...
School was a trial for Edmond. "Your classmate has a very fine dog's head," said the teacher to his class on Edmond's first day. "He has no reason to be ashamed of it, and you have no reason to tease him. I rely on your good manners, your charitable natures and your kind hearts." But these virtues are not well developed in schoolboys. Edmond's colleagues chained him to posts in the school yard and forced him to bark. "Who takes you out before breakfast," they asked, "your mother or your father...
...that he might have remained a bank clerk forever, had not a female employee played tag with his trusting, spaniel-like affections. Edmond began to gambol in the stock market, and soon became wealthy. He bought a painting by Rosa Bonheur called Sheepdog Pursuing a Sheep and Woman with Dog by Matisse...
...terse, deadpan prose to teach a lesson to the afflicted of the world as well. The happier Edmond becomes, the more worried he grows. The more his mistress, Anne adores him, the more convinced he is that she must be mad to love a man with a dog's head. He sends her to a psychiatric hospital for treatment; when she comes out, she is as bad as ever...