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]

[as in, the real actual thing, in Buenos Aires–photo by Carey Wallace. Complete with “ABC Restaurante Aleman” in the background.]