The Fourth Hand
“Clausen T RY BEING AN ANCHORwho hides the evidence of his missing hand under the news desk—see what that gets you. The earliest letters of protest were from amputees.
What was Patrick Wal ingford ashamed of?
Even two-handed people complained. “Be a man, Patrick,”
one woman wrote.
“Show us.”
When he had problems with his first prosthesis, wearers of artificial limbs criticized him for using it incorrectly. He was equal y clumsy with an array of other prosthetic devices, but his wife was divorcin...g him—he had no time to practice.
Marilyn simply couldn’t get over how he’d “behaved.” In this case, she didn’t mean the other women—she was referring to how Patrick had behaved with the lion. “You looked so . .
. unmanly,” Marilyn told him, adding that her husband’s physical attractiveness had always been “of an inoffensive kind, tantamount to blandness.” What she real y meant was that nothing about his body had revolted her, until now. (In sickness and in health, but not in missing pieces, Wal ingford concluded.) Patrick and Marilyn had lived in Manhattan in an apartment on East Sixty-second Street between Park and Lexington avenues; natural y it was Marilyn’s apartment now.MoreLess
What was Patrick Wal ingford ashamed of?
Even two-handed people complained. “Be a man, Patrick,”
one woman wrote.
“Show us.”
When he had problems with his first prosthesis, wearers of artificial limbs criticized him for using it incorrectly. He was equal y clumsy with an array of other prosthetic devices, but his wife was divorcin...g him—he had no time to practice.
Marilyn simply couldn’t get over how he’d “behaved.” In this case, she didn’t mean the other women—she was referring to how Patrick had behaved with the lion. “You looked so . .
. unmanly,” Marilyn told him, adding that her husband’s physical attractiveness had always been “of an inoffensive kind, tantamount to blandness.” What she real y meant was that nothing about his body had revolted her, until now. (In sickness and in health, but not in missing pieces, Wal ingford concluded.) Patrick and Marilyn had lived in Manhattan in an apartment on East Sixty-second Street between Park and Lexington avenues; natural y it was Marilyn’s apartment now.MoreLess
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