7/5/2023 0 Comments P’tit Cadeau by Anel Viz![]() ![]() When Julia died two years after Caliban, Calhoun dug her grave a mile or so from their house. Nick's diary gives the name of the Saint LouisĬemetery where Caliban is buried. The store had a bathtub just like the one me and Cal soaked in in Billings." When he mentions Caliban, it is always as a separate entry and seldom longer than one or two sentences: "Today was Cal's birthday" or "Forty-two years ago today I carried Cal over the threshold" or "Today I bought a new faucet for the 57bathroom sink. The life we read there does not come to life. ![]() In the final pages of his diary, Nick tells us about his work, his neighbors, the things he saw or did that he found interesting, but he seems detached from all of it. If he did, he did not consider them important enough to store in the trunk with the record he kept of his life with Caliban, the photograph, the letters, and the anonymous lock of hair, which I am holding between my fingers and rub on my cheek to help me write these lines. It took him five years to fill the last fifth of the last notebook, and we cannot say if he bought others to continue it. Logan's visit, the entries in Nick's diary become very brief and far between after Caliban's death. ![]() Nick pasted Calvin Jr.'s signed confession in his diary and wrote next to it: "And when I think of me and Cal, and everything we had."Įxcept for three-quarters of a page devoted to After that, well, I wouldn't 'a 56wanted to change for the world." ![]()
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