Leonard and Hungry Paul

by Ronan Hession

written by the Chamber of Commerce, a group that he assumed had some relationship to the Chamber of Horrors at the wax museum, presumably displaying wax likenesses of entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson or Uncle Ben.

In formal letters, ‘yours faithfully’ has been used by the Chamber of Commerce whenever the addressee is not identified, although some members feel that its suggestion of fidelity is somewhat at odds with the anonymous salutation: in effect they have been saying, ‘You have my undying loyalty, whoever you are.’ It

It would have pained her beautiful heart to think that there was a living thing that would go through life unloved and she was compensating for that with a special, deliberate effort to love it. In the same way, when her son was born after two miscarriages and almost didn’t make it, she had promised that if he survived she would not expect or ask any more from him for his whole life than that. And that is why she had accepted Hungry Paul as he was and let him follow his natural, meandering course through life as her sunfish.

Hungry Paul was a man who normally stood as a weir, letting the world wash over and through him,

The self-knitted lady abandoned him in a sudden undoing of what she had only just started, a trick any knitter would know.

He went through the house opening all the windows, like

Yoko Ono in the Imagine video, only wearing paisley pyjamas and orange Crocs.