Comments on: War stories

By: scott partee

scott partee — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:32:24 +0000

Your use of the “diving board” figurative language , while probably tossed off in a blurred-vision-sleepy blogging state, is genius. I closed my eyes to imagine it and got so creeped out that I decided to go take a walk outside to get it out of my head.

By: mig

mig — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:30:27 +0000

They were double-teaming me day before yesterday at dinner. He’d start a story about his childhood, and Gamma would finish it. And then tell another one about his childhood all by herself. And start another he’d finish.

By: R J Keefe

R J Keefe — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:56:32 +0000

And you thought that you grew up in the Wild West.

I have always wanted to meet three maiden (but charmingly philanthropic) triplets: Carpathia, Carinthia, and Carniola von QuelqueChose.

“Gin tonics” is British. I do imagine that limes are expensive where you are. Here, they’re always much cheaper than lemons – six or seven for a dollar.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:23:49 +0000

Interesting, I see I wrote “gin tonic” instead of “gin and tonic”. The former being the German name. I didn’t really start drinking gin until I came to Austria, for various reasons.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:16:14 +0000

Gamma has become an authority on her grandfather’s childhood. She makes him tell her about it in great detail, and she has all the stories committed to memory. They dovetail perfectly, her interest in and his improved elderly recall of his childhood. She asks me the same questions about mine, but so far I can remember relatively little, so far. That will change someday.

By: jilbur

jilbur — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:03:46 +0000

You’re both lucky: you, to have heard it; he, to have told it to someone who could record it with so much lucidity. It pains me to think about memories lost.