When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax.
[Flannery O’Connor]

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.]