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MIND THE DOORSLONG SHORT STORIESBy ZINOVY ZINIKContext BooksCopyright © 2001 Zinovy Zinik. All rights reserved.ISBN: 1-893956-04-0Chapter One A PICKLED NOSEBefore Francis Bacon's portrait of Muriel Belcher was put upfor sale, the auctioneers from Christie's arranged a privateviewing for the press and regular patrons at the Colony Room.It was a clever idea, really, to bring the picture back to its birthplace.The late Muriel Belcher had owned Bacon's favoritewatering hole (little water, much whiskey). The viewing was acunning publicity stunt. Newspapers are constantly on thelookout for gossip, and Christie's people rightly recognized thata painting from Bacon's Belcher period, shown in the Colony,couldn't fail to attract attention.    Muriel Belcher had arrived in London after the war, havingrun away from both her native Birmingham and authoritarianfather, who was a prosperous Jewish impresario of Portugueseextraction. Muriel was accompanied by her lesbian lover, aJamaican named Carmel, whose colonial origins may haveinfluenced the naming of the club when it opened in 1948.Britain's then retrograde licensing laws forced pubs to shuttheir doors in the afternoo

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Author

Zinik, Zinovy

Publisher

New York: Context Books

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781893956049

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14