ARTHUR'S WHIMS is the tale of a modern saint, a love story born of a childhood dream of being alone on a boat with a boy, a friend. Arthur and his beloved Bichon -- a young man who, after drinking Arthur's tears, becomes pregnant with his child -- drift through a stream of identities and circumstances: birdcatchers for a French taxidermist; sailors shipwrecked in an ice fortress; explorers of the Isles of Traitors, Babies, and Sadness; famous...