There is something to be written about grandfathers in fiction, and that finds room for Paul's purported one (played by Steptoe) in A Hard Day's Night. This thought comes to mind with reading Leonard Cohen's early, now posthumously-published novella A Ballet of Lepers.
A variant on the boarding-house novel, it treats of love in down-at-heel Montreal, a situation veset by the arrival of a grandfather whom the narrator has not known - and who proves to make Paul's appear a model of rectitude and even svelte.
It is outlandish in its comedy. I read half of it last night, and look forward to the rest of it later today. After which there are sixteen stories.
A treat, this bleak December.
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