James Jacques Joseph Tissot Hide and Seek painting

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same time; in one spot, blissful down the road, the inferno. You can't ask for a wilder place." Ice cities on the roof of the world wouldn't have fazed Otto. Like his wife Alicja, Allie's mother, he was a Polish émigré, a survivor of a wartime prison camp whose name was never mentioned throughout Allie's childhood. "He wanted to make it as if it had not been," Alicja told her daughter later. "He was unrealistic in many ways. But a good man; the best I knew." She smiled an inward smile as she spoke, tolerating him in memory as she had not always managed to frequently appalling. For example: he developed a hatred of communism which drove him to embarrassing extremes of behaviour, notably at Christmas, when this Jewish man insisted on celebrating with his Jewish family and others what he described as "an English rite", as a mark of respect to their new "host nation" -- and then spoiled it all (in his wife's eyes) by bursting into the salon where the assembled company was relaxing in the glow of log fire, Christmas tree lights and brandy, got up in pantomime Chinee, with droopy moustaches