In the morning before eating, you’re on the defensive, you manage somehow not to know things you really do know.
[Simone de Beauvoir]

With love to my actual father, here a photo of my favorite fictional father, Atticus Finch, with his daughter Scout. (Well, technically the photo is of Gregory Peck and Mary Badham playing Atticus and Scout in the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird.)

Scout and Atticus

[Thanks to The Regulator Bookshop for posting this, and Celia Wolff for pointing it out to me.]