Lisa has just phoned. My name ‘came up in conversation’ when she was talking to a medical acquaintance (I forgot to ask why they were talking about me, I was so surprised by what she told me), and he told her that ‘Kozlowski’ is the name of a form of dwarfism.
If you have read my earlier posts, you will remember that my friend Lisa is a dwarf, an achondroplasic: you can read about what happened to her in Amsterdam (when she was looking at masterpieces made by brick-layers – now that would interest my partner Tony!) and read much more about her in The Embalmer’s Book of Recipes .
Lisa – Dr Lisa Wallace – is a mathematician who works on something complicated called quasicrystals at Liverpool University; she is bright, and funny, and opinionated. Knowing her, and what she has learned to put up with or ignore, as a dwarf, has made me and Tony even more angry and sickened by recently reported behaviour of the English rugby players – a ‘dwarf-throwing contest’? Surely not. Surely that sort of attitude should have gone out with the end of freak shows.
