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Life as a Donkey
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34 Life as a Donkey In a dream, I’m tapping my fingers on the dinner table, the clock ticking: no wife, no wife, no wife, when the Miller from Canterbury emerges, ale on his breath, whispers: learn to accept the stripe that will appear on your back, as if your hair can sense what your mind can’t grasp. Tell yourself that the stripe in your coarse fur is from Jesus riding you into Bethlehem, that a child who straddles you in his youth will never suffer a toothache, that the weight on your back is anything but your wife and him nibbling grapes. ...