What's That About Memories, Paul?
I just found this in a pile of papers. Why it was there, I don't know.
May 9, 1996
Dear Kong Company,
I would love to buy a Kitty Kong Fun Kit, as advertised in Cats Magazine, but I live in Thailand, where pet supplies are a rarity. Could you send the kit to me by air mail at the following address and bill me for the cost and the postage?
Claire Berlinski c/o Asia Times/Asia Network Publication Company/102/1 Phra-a-thit Road/Chana Songkhram, Phranakorn, Bangkok 102022, Thailand
Thank you very much. Tiger, Max, Peter and I are eagerly awaiting delivery of our irresistible Kitty Kong Fun Kit.
Yours sincerely,
Claire Berlinski
I don't remember if I ever received the Kitty Kong Fun Kit. I don't think so.
I found Peter, Tiger and Max in a flowerpot when they were kittens. They traveled the world with my brother and me--first to California and then to Washington, DC--and then, finally took residence with my father, in Paris. We'd all forgotten that Max's original name was Max. My father started calling her Wanker, and the name stuck.
Peter and Tiger are gone now. Wankie is alive, well, and a very grumpy old cat.
I'm unchanged, apparently.
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Jun '10
Re: What's That About Memories, Paul?
Did it look like this?
Re: What's That About Memories, Paul?
Reading this post and your previous post today casts my mind back. These days, I have the same sort of experience when we move. I go through drawers and find forgotten things -- photographs I took in Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus between 1984 and 1986, old love letters tucked in books, and the like.
Some years ago, a friend in DC held a dinner in honor of the memory of a Yale professor whom the attendees had known well. As a prelude, the fellow in DC sent us the letters we had addressed thirty years before to the deceased. I remember sitting down one afternoon, reading them, and dissolving in tears.
Sep '10
Re: What's That About Memories, Paul?
This needs to be your post's soundtrack (ignore the fact that they made the singer look more like Gaddafi than like a cat).
Edited on Feb 26, 2011 at 10:26amRe: What's That About Memories, Paul?
Peter Hintz: Thisneeds to be your post's soundtrack (ignore the fact that they made the singer look more like Gaddafi than like a cat). · Feb 26 at 10:25am
Edited on Feb 26 at 10:26 am
Wow. I don't know what it is about that soundtrack, but she's singing at a frequency that really got my cats' attention. That worked even better than their favorite chirping-birds video.
May '10
Re: What's That About Memories, Paul?
Aren't you at least alive, well, and a very grumpy old cat?
Oct '10
Re: What's That About Memories, Paul?
There's no cat like an old, grumpy, Japanese Bobtail.