The Cheshire Cat=Woody Allen

I do not appreciate existentialism. Hence my respect, but not avid enthusiasim, for the characters above.

But I do LOVE this. Listen:
The French symbolist poet, Gerard de Nerval had a series of nervous breakdowns and eventually committed suicide, but before mental illness completely overtook his life, de Nerval owned a pet lobster, which he would take for walks around Paris, using a length of blue ribbon as a leash. The advantages of lobsters as pets? According to de Nerval they are "peaceful, serious creatures who know the secrets of the sea, and do not bark."

I can just see the lobster clicking ahead of a long blue ribbon. "Undah the sea...."

Also, speaking of suicide, did you know that East Germany stopped making any record of the suicide count in 1977? Interesting. The movie Whitney and I went to tonight said that.

And...guess what? I know someone who alleges that he is related to P.T. Barnum, the circus guy. How random is that? Needless to say, I am very impressed. And I want a lobster.






"March Hare: …Then you should say what you mean.
Alice: I do; at least - at least I mean what I say -- that's the same thing, you know.
Hatter: Not the same thing a bit! Why, you might just as well say that, 'I see what I eat' is the same as 'I eat what I see'!
March Hare: You might just as well say, that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!
The Dormouse: You might just as well say, that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!
March Hare: Well, it is the same for you."
-Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

[My quote relates because Lewis Carroll added a bit about a lobster to Alice in Wonderland....or is it Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass? I can never remember because my dad gave them to me bound as one book when I was little. It was the only fiction book that I've ever heard him endorse. He thinks that it's horribly intellectual, and I agree. Fabulous shit. I am especially partial to the tea party scenes because I was the March Hare in a play when I was in 4th-ish grade.]