My Life and Thoughts

OK dear readers, I don’t want you to think I’m evading the difficult subject of literary production in our times, but you’re going to have to sit through one more post about cats. Not counting this post, which is a response to the comments about the last post about cats. After that I promise, no more cats.

Dear Burcu! Yes, Friday is exactly what I named my cat. Thank you very much for the reference to Gürcan Yurt, whom I did not know. It’s funny, I reread Robinson Crusoe a couple of years ago, when I was working on sidekicks, and was so disappointed to realize how little there was about Friday! In my mind I had turned Friday into another Dr. Watson… but really he was in what, like three chapters?  In short you can imagine how delighted I was to discover that, in the comic books of my ancestral homeland, Friday has been elevated to a title character.

Although the only excerpts I found online were all illegibly small, I am already encouraged by what appears to be a remarkably equitable distribution of lines between Crusoe and Friday:

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Dear readers, thank you for your kind and interesting comments about Gremlins, and please forgive my boorish silence, which does not reflect any lack of enthusiasm on my part vis-a-vis the firsthand Gremlin stories of all your pilot friends and relatives.  

My boorish silence does, however, reflect that I recently adopted a “desocialized” kitten (the San Francisco SPCA is having a month-long special on kittens).  So I spent pretty much all week socializing this kitten:

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