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...FIDO FARE...
...eccentricity behind her vencer of conventionalism. She studies literature, but the literature of children's rhymes: she does not degrade herself with snide retorts to her academic detractors, but she imagines them torturously consumed by progressive pneumonia: she lives alone without visible regret, but she imagines a dirty dog Fido, or Self-Pity, as her constant companion. And now Vinnie, ahem, Professor Vinnie Miner, who wouldn't even lower herself to see the musical Oklahoma, finds herself making love to a hoky sanitation engineer from Fulsa...
Fortunately there is Bryher, whose wealth, practical intelligence and activities run away with the book. "Fido," as H.D. called her cigar-smoking companion, is constantly on the move: in one day she visits Brancusi, Stein, Pound, Joyce's wife Nora, and has dinner with Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. Bryher proves to be a great traveler who mingles comfortably and is resourceful under pressure. In London, during World War II, she had cloth woven from camel hair collected at the city zoo. She also tried to raise chickens during the blitz, but the birds ate their own eggs. Just...
Reprieve for Fido...
...urban dweller knows, the U.S. is quite literally going to the dogs -to say nothing of cats, canaries, parakeets, turtles and, indeed, a whole Noah's ark of creatures. Accompanying the pet population explosion is the spectacular growth of medical care dedicated solely to Fido, Fifi, Polly and friends. There are now 30,000 doctors of veterinary medicine in the U.S., and the number is rising. In addition, there are more than 1,000 U.S. and Canadian animal hospitals. These range from small storefront one-doctor facilities to such gleaming temples of animal care as the nine-story Animal...