The Curiosities

•65/ ii. As a joke, he has been known to act out various menageries of creatures, the curiosities, the cumbersome leviathan, or simply a rabid hound, on all fours howling, mouth frothing in frustration, foam in his beard, the body quaking with tremors, with seizures, from every canine motion, his shaking form rolling in the dust, maddened, views of lunacy mirrored, even spilling urine on the carpet, devouring leathery shoes, forgotten sheets of newspapers— all for the attention of one bouncing, sky-blue ball.
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