archy and mehitabel
- Gay_Klok
- Carol Wallace
- Gay_Klok
- Carol Wallace
- Gay_Klok
- fido2001
- Carol Wallace
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- fido2001
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» Gay_Klok - Re: awakened memories.
In response to message posted by CarolWallace:Archie says:
one queer thing about
spring gardens is
that so many people use them to
raise spinach in
instead of food
now and then
there is a person born
who is so unlucky
that he runs into accidents
which started out to happen
to someone else
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» Carol Wallace - Great teaser!!
In response to message posted by Gay_Klok:Who reading that can resist looking for a bit more?? I have to go hunt up my own copy and reread it. It's been far too long!
I've tried and tried to find other books by the author and have come up a blank.
-- posted by Carol Wallace
» Gay_Klok - Re: Great teaser!!
In response to message posted by CarolWallace:My edition is the 9th Edition, Carol, printed in august mcml and it does not mention any other books by Don Marquis - but in Marquis' intro he mentions that they first appeared in the New York Evening sun and then New York's Herald Tribune for ten years [just Archie]. He says he tried to kill them off but received so many howls of protests of readers that he continually had to resurrect them. He says that he gathered a few of Archy's communications into a book. He was astounded by the book selling 30,000 copies. For 2 years he published in Collier's eekly and the editors insisted that I do them every week. For that reason it seemed worthwhile to get out another book. So that is two
I only own Archy's life of mehitabel
Toujours gai
"here is a piece of political news
for you mehitabel tells me that
the cats in greenwich
village and the adjoining
neighbouhoods are forming soviets now
they are going in for bolshevism
her soviet she says
meets in washington mews
they are for the nationalization
of all fish markets"
archy
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» Carol Wallace - Re: Re: Great teaser!!
In response to message posted by Gay_Klok:I must have both books collected into one volume, because I have read the pieces you are quoting. And in fact, thinking back, there is a huge section that is basically mehitabel - like when she goes to hollywood and returns with the platinum blond kittens and more.
I have an idea, Gay. Why don't we rename your column "Toujours Gay"!
Like I say, I have to find my copy. The trouble is, this house is practically wall to wall bookshelves and many of those are stacked two books deep. Locating things can be an all day project!
I wish I was an editor of the sort who could go to the newspaper archives and collect all the unpublished pieces and turn them into a new volume.
-- posted by Carol Wallace
» fido2001 - whoops
well dont blame me butthis thing was turned on
and connected to the internet
it said
whatever that is
and fido had fallen asleep
anyway
he'll never notice me here
i said to mehitabel
though she disagreed as usual
but i jumped onto the keyboard anyway
and lo and behold
the letters started to appear
on the screen
after jumping onto the wrong keys
a couple of times
i finally figured out how to use this
and accidentally
saw our names lit up in red ink
though it cant really be ink can it
this modern age keeps producing
wonder after wonder
a friendly butterfly flying north
from Florida told me that
just yesterday
and she was right
all things considered
so i kept jumping from key to key
writing this message to you all
not that i had anything to say
but mehitabel and i shouldnt go down in obscurity
you know what they say about renegade cats
and poetic cockroaches
so i somehow managed to get our names
back out of the buried section
and onto the front of the screen
thank you all for your kind words
about us and does anyone know
if a computer is really
a reincarnated typewriter
i think it is
and it uses electronic paper
and to think
i was getting used to television
au revoir and
cest la vie
archy
-- posted by fido2001
» Carol Wallace - Ah, archy
In response to message posted by fido2001:It is SO good to have you back and writing again!
-- posted by Carol Wallace
» Gay_Klok - Re: whoops
In response to message posted by fido2001:archy, when I look above,
(after hitting the reply button]
it is all one straight line across
and is not nearly so poetic.
i like your line spacing to be short and sweet
maybe you could type a complaint
to the electronic management
for thinking they know better
toujours gay
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» fido2001 - Re: Re: whoops
In response to message posted by Gay_Klok:gay klok
i dont know much
about line
spacing
i just jump
from key to key
it can be
exhausting
after a while
when youre only
trying to write
something
to someone
somewhere
and you dont
even know where
and dont know
what alt means
let alone
ctrl or the one
with the flying
window on it
i try to stay away
from that one
let me tell you
gay klok
im afraid of where
it might take me
same thing with
the arrow keys
where
do you think
theyre all going
or want us
to go
well gay klok
id better go
its suppertime
and i think
fido will soon
be here
that means
there will be
some scraps
left for me
in the kitchen
if mehitabel
hasnt already
cleaned them up
we do all the work
around here and
are thinking of
starting our own
union
the aamu
we would call it
or do you think
just plain amu
would do it
thank you also
for your kind
reply i hope
one day to find out
what a systems error is
the computer has
been talking to me
all morning
but i dont know
what it wants
do you happen to have
the phone number of
a mister bill gates
id like to ask him
not to start
making
microwave machines
even though
i have a cousin
who has lived through
several of them
well toujours gay
for now klok
maybe well meet again
one day
-- posted by fido2001
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