I think it was all jumbled up with whether or not we should keep the dog. Cats were definitely out, because stories abounded of people with AIDS getting encephalitis from cat feces. You must never empty a litter box without protective gloves. Not that we had a cat, but I’d become quite leery of the neighborhood cats who dozed on our garden fence and switched their tails at Puck. Even the goldfish—Schwartz—was suspect. I told Rog not to change his water anymore, I’d do it. Schwartz in turn was mixed up with a story we’d heard of someone who caught a brain fever from eating too much sushi. There
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