Fiction by Joseph O’Neill: It had never been my ambition to be rich. My fortune came into being almost against my will.
One of these older people was V. He was a white European, but my initial impression of him was not unlike the impression I would then gain of certain senior Black Americans, namely, that they were subjects of history. This was the year 2000. In the faces of older New Yorkers, or so I believed, you could spot the vestiges of Jim Crow—for that matter, of the Third Reich and the Iron Curtain and the Great Leap Forward. What Vojtech Bartolomaeus, whom everyone called V. or Mr. V.
When a nurse turned up, I asked if I could bring V.’s dog with me on my next visit. “No pets,” he declared. “You are . . . ?” “I’m taking care of his dog. Until Mr. V. comes home.” Because he gave me a funny look, I added, “I’m his next-door neighbor.” The nurse returned with a doctor. She said, “You’re the carer of Mr. . . . ?” “How’s he doing?” I answered. “We’re making him as comfortable as we can,” the doctor said. That didn’t sound good. “Sounds good,” I said. On my third visit, V.
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