Hili Dialogue, Thursday

September 11, 2013 • 10:37 pm

It’s so sad to leave my friends Malgorzata, Andrzej, and their cat Hili.  But it has been a wonderful week of friends (including one of the felid stripe), work, relaxation, and food.

Today, I’m afraid, will be the last Hili Dialogue featuring me.  But I get others every day, and perhaps I will feature them on this site from time to time.

I’m heading for Warsaw on the morning train, so don’t expect new posts today. With luck, Matthew and Greg will fill in.

Hili: Do you have to go away?
Jerry: Yes, they are waiting for me.
Hili: Just tell them that you got lost in the forest.

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In Polish:

Hili: Musisz już jechać?
Jerry: Tak, czekają na mnie.
Hili: To powiedz im, że się zgubiłeś w lesie.

28 thoughts on “Hili Dialogue, Thursday”

  1. “Today, I’m afraid, will be the last Hili DIalogue featuring me. But I get others every day, and perhaps I will feature them on this site from time to time.”

    I’d enjoy that!

    Thank you to Malgorzata, Andrzej, and Hili for letting us all share a bit of their lives this week.

          1. You know…that actually sounds like an awesome idea. At the very least, perhaps Jerry could do something similar to the reader cat posts, but with recipes.

            b&

          3. By the time they’re in grad school, they’re too tough and stringy to barbecue. That’s what most of us prefer baby recipes.

            I suppose you could pressure cook the grad students, but that would seem to take all the fun out of it….

            b&

          4. Marinade recipes for the cookbook? Isn’t there some fruit – papaya? – that contains collagen-softening enzymes?

          6. Someone mentioned recently that “the devil gets all the best tunes”.
            [advertising voiceover]And now, with the awsome WEIT cookbook, the devil has all the best recipes too!

  2. Given that you do the work and and have the commitment of 4 people, its great to see you in a relaxed mode being woo’d by Hili.

  3. After reading the Hili Dialogues I can not imagine anybody questioning the existence of Ceiling Cat (paws be upon him).

  5. Well, Prof. Ceiling-Cat’s visit has been a great week for Polish-Americans. And it has brought to mind an old Polish friend, Florian Carpathius? From the nineteen sixties in London. He told me that he was a Warsaw journalist, fleeing Warsaw with his wife, and with his little boy in his arms. A stray bullet killed the boy, and Florian had to put the body in the gutter and hurry on. He was separated from his wife when he put her on a train, and never saw her again, presuming that she died in a Camp.
    Florian travelled south, finally reaching Iran, and then to Gt Britain by boat, where he had to work in a jam-factory in Wales for ten years. He became the technical librarian in a science equipment company where I worked. We used to lunch together. He spoke eight languages, and had an eye for international politics and literature. From him I learned that there were great cultures and civilisations to the East, and so in 1967, I drove my red sports car (with a rally light on the roof) to East Germany, Poland, Czecho, and was often greeted as an Englishman who took their side in The War. In East Berlin where no foreigners strayed, I found huge beer cellars with cabaret stages from pre-war. Later, I was in California and I befriended the British writer, Christopher Isherwood, who was in berlin up to the war, and wrote ‘I am a Camera’ from which the ‘Cabaret’ films were adapted. I visited Czecho many times, and made a documentary in about 1993, in which I interviewed the new president Vaclav Klaus, which was broadcast, and was the first suggestion that Czech was going to split from Slovakia. Incidentally, while waiting at the palace to interview the President Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela was waiting alongside me and my crew and we had a chat. How’s that for name-dropping??

  6. Have a safe trip home, Prof Ceiling Cat! It looks like you enjoyed Poland. If you ever feel like visiting the area around Nice, France, you’re welcome. My SO is Polish, too, so you can get very yummi perogi and other Pole stuff as well as my famed Provençale cooking. Oh, and 3 kitties!

  7. Well, “partir c’est mourir un peu”. But you (and we also a little) had a wonderful stay.
    Every time I look at my own Poes, I will think of her look-a-like Hili and her rational friends.

  8. I am really going to miss Hili. She seems to be a good little cat and well-loved. We are all a little better for your knowing her. Thanks for the introduction, Professor Ceiling Cat. (I happen to have my very own Basement Cat!)

    On another note, I would love the recipe for that cherry pie with walnut crust!

  10. Malgorzata and Andrzej thank you for sharing a bit of your wonderful home with us.

    Gosia, Hania, Emma, Fitness, and Hili it was nice to have vicariously met all of you as well.

  11. At least writing for myself — though I suspect I might not be alone in this — I would welcome a daily Hili Dialogue featured here on WEIT.

    Sorry transatlantic travel is so unwieldy that you can’t make a regular habit of Polish trips….

    b&

  13. The poor dog doesn’t even get a mention. I thought you might have been won over after spending some time with one.

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