Feb 26
From nomadic-revery, here’s Kurt Vonnegut taking a nap. Is the pup on his lap the Hungarian sheepdog memorialized in  “Why My Dog is Not a Humanist”? That’s one breed I can’t identify on sight, and Google image search was confusing, so you tell me. (Charles Shields, Vonnegut’s biographer, explains: The dog in the photo on Vonnegut’s lap while he is napping in his study upstairs on East 48th street in Manhattan is Pumpkin, a Lhaso Apso. Kurt suffered from loneliness and the uncomplicated affection of dogs comforted him. “I cannot distinguish,” he wrote in [his eighth novel] Slapstick, “between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs.” The Hungarian sheepdog, Sandy, “was the family dog when Kurt was still married to his first wife, Jane,” and they and lived with six children — three theirs, and three nephews — in West Barnstable on Cape Cod.)

From nomadic-revery, here’s Kurt Vonnegut taking a nap. Is the pup on his lap the Hungarian sheepdog memorialized in  “Why My Dog is Not a Humanist”? That’s one breed I can’t identify on sight, and Google image search was confusing, so you tell me.

(Charles Shields, Vonnegut’s biographer, explains:

The dog in the photo on Vonnegut’s lap while he is napping in his study upstairs on East 48th street in Manhattan is Pumpkin, a Lhaso Apso. Kurt suffered from loneliness and the uncomplicated affection of dogs comforted him. “I cannot distinguish,” he wrote in [his eighth novel] Slapstick, “between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs.”

The Hungarian sheepdog, Sandy, “was the family dog when Kurt was still married to his first wife, Jane,” and they and lived with six children — three theirs, and three nephews — in West Barnstable on Cape Cod.)

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    Kurt Vonnegut takes a nap cooler than you do anything.
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