Sunday: Hili dialogue (and Leon monologue)

August 14, 2016 • 6:30 am

It’s August 14 (I’ve double checked), and tomorrow I start heading home. Today is Independence Day in Pakistan, when that country was declared an Official National following the partition by the British in 1947.  Also on this day, in 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened in London. After 41 years, it’s now the longest-running movie in cinema history. I have never seen it.

And it’s a happy birthday to French actor Emmanuelle Béart (♥), who becomes 52 today, once again proving how old I am. Finally, on this day in 2004 the Polish writer (later an American citizen) Czesław Miłosz died; he was a Nobel Laureate in literature. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili and Cyrus are sad about the state of the world:

Hili: Did you read the news?
Cyrus: Yes, I did.
Hili: Me too.
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In Polish:
Hili: Czytałeś wiadomości?
Cyrus: Czytałem.
Hili: Ja też.

In Wloclawek, we’ve given Leon several of the Japanese “cat’s snacks” provided by Hiroko. Like Hili, he loves them, proving that Japanese and Polish cats have similar tastes.

Leon: Hmmm. Jerry knows perfectly how to make a cat happy.
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It’s worth looking back at Leon when he was a kitten, two years ago yesterday. This was one of his first monologues, and he was already grouchy:
Leon: Don’t call me “my little one.” I’m already 9 weeks old!
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Finally, courtesy of reader Robin, is one of my namesake cats, Jerry, who lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He’s said to be lovable but klutzy, and one time rolled off the kitchen counter into an open dishwasher (he was neither hurt nor washed):
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8 thoughts on “Sunday: Hili dialogue (and Leon monologue)”

  3. Hili and Cyrus look to be sad that you’re leaving them soon, Jerry. They’ll sense that something’s up, especially if there’s packing of luggage. Cyrus is too big to be a stowaway, but Hili isn’t.

  4. I read the news today oh boy
    About a lucky man who made the grade
    And though the news was rather sad
    Well I just had to laugh…

  6. When I was taking grad courses in Computer Science at Kent State in the early ’90s, I served for a year on the school’s European Film Society.

    Year in and year out there was a student who wanted to show on campus Emmanuelle Béart’s film Manon des Sources.

    The female faculty advisor to the EFS repeatedly nixed it on the grounds that she disapproved of how it treated women. We talked about sneaking it in when she was on sabbatical, but this never happened. When I saw it I just couldn’t see what the problem was. A bad guy becomes obsessed with Manon (Béart) after seeing her bathe nude in a mountain spring, but she is the victorious heroine of this story, and the scene in question isn’t especially salacious.

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