The end of the week is nigh, the weather is lovely in Chicago, and all is quiet as the students (and, apparently, much of our faculty) are away. School doesn’t start until early October here (we’re on the quarter system), so we have nearly two more months of quiescence. But to compensate for my lack of any news, we have a Leon monologue in addition to a Hili dialogue. First, Hili in Dobrzyn; how she learned about qualia I’ll never know:
Hili: Do we have any qualia in the fridge?
A: No, we don’t.
Hili: Don’t we even have a few dried ones?
Hili: Są w lodówce jakieś qualia?
Ja: Nie ma.
Hili: Suszonych też nie mamy?
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And we have some feline lagniappe: a Leon monologue with an explanation by Malgorzata:
Explanation: Elzbieta [Leon’s staff] was here yesterday and she said that she needed a big basket and couldn’t find the one which would fulfill her requirement. I remembered that I had a big basket upstairs in the wardrobe, full of things I didn’t need but couldn’t force myself to throw away. So I transferred them into a plastic bag and gave Elzbieta the basket. It was exactly the thing she was looking for in shops without any sucess. During the night this monologue came:
Leon: I must thank Małgorzata for this wonderful present.
And 5 August weekends to look forward to – but not as rare as some myths would have it!
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/823-years.html
Leon is quite correct with re to his etiquette / his respect: wowza ! = that basket of Ms Malgorzata’s to his staff is smashing !
Those wonderfully woven ones with bi – flipping covers (— yet different and not actually ‘picnic’ baskets — ) are .so not. found in stores anymore ! Does Poland / eastern Europe have its eBay ?
I just quickly glanced there for this — and there are some, but this particular one now given over to Leon’s folk is still the loveliest ! Just a darling gift !
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One has to wonder, was the basket desired for its Leon-carrying ability, or has it been appropriated for that purpose, leaving Elzbieta once again basketless?
It was definitely to serve quite other purposes and now Elzbieta is without a basket, again. Unfortunately, I do not have any more such baskets so the situation is dire. I’m going to recommend eBay.
By the time photos have been taken and searches on ebaY completed, bids, made, a basket won, paid and delivered … the day before the new basket arrives, Leon will decide the basket is no longer a suitable toy and shun it utterly. Leaving a basket surplus.
No, there is no escape.
The Hili shot has abundant compositional interest. A strong diagonal is stabilized by a line down the middle. The soft, paws are echoed and contrasted by the hard stones, yet her fur coat matches the stone in color. I could go on…
plus, she’s cute
I just thought it was a cute picture of her. But then I don’t have a name like “rickflick”, which sounds to me like someone who knows about this stuff. 🙂
Cue: someone to say ALL pictures of Hili are cute.
After reading comments on the previous post, I was distracted by the pebbles.
That basket is perfect for the commute to Hell….
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