The Cocktail Bar
Memories of Evenings Past
NOTE: This conversation runs backwards! For the benefit
of regular readers the newest comments are put at the top.
Dateline: 17 November 1951 Quirinelle time
Daphne's Debut
Hello my darlings!
This is my first visit to the cocktail bar, and if there is any
willing brunette, I would most enjoy a Tom Collins! I read the conversations
you girls have been engaging in, and I am quite anxious to meet all of
you! My name is Daphne, and I enjoy sparkling conversation, arranging flowers,
and inventing new hair-dos. I am unfortunately a pit-dweller, and am most
upset with the demise of proper lady-like manners in the pit. Will some
lovely, sweet and strong brunette please save me from the horrid, savagely
mannered pit-dwelling girly girls??? PLEEEASE!!!!
I await a reply with wide crystal blue eyes and an open heart,
DAPHNE
Darling Daphne! Hello! What with all the dear old friends
returning and the new girls arriving too - come along, pettes, find Daphne
a seat - and a Thomasina Colettes. No, it's on the house, the first one.
And a brunette? Well, they're not on the house, we fear, but there are
quite a few in the house. Do look round and make yourself at home.
A Nightingale in A Culverian University Town
Darling Annalinde,
How wonderful for you. How bittersweet. And I know exactly what
you mean by longing for your London. I feel similar longings for this little
town, even though it is too tiny ever to have had glamour or glitter or
shine. But, how I long for it to be real, for all the co-eds to be in skirts
and blouses, the undergruggers to wear the right kind of hats and to take
them off while indoors, the cars to be rounded and lovely, the salesgirls
to be polite, the librarians prudish, the teenagers innocent, the night
to sparkle with innocent intoxication, the days to be filled with diligent
hard work, the denizens to swell in their hearts with noble feelings of
patriotism and devotion to family and church, the neighborhoods safe and
clean, the children's greatest worries over who has more marbles or a more
sure right jab, the bullies always getting theirs in the end, the mothers
superior to everyone else, the professors loving Truth and their students,
the students feeling proud about getting an education and bettering themselves,
the ... oh how I could go on and on. I know life in the real world isn't
perfect, but golly, it is gazillions times better than in the dreary old
Pit.
But as someone once said, (Annalinde, was it you?) in times of
war, everyone is so much nicer to each other. Not that you'd wish for a
war just to bring out the niceness in folks, but at least there is a silver
lining. And you all here are my silver lining, darlings. I think I'll have
a Martini Cocktail this evening, dear barmaid. And, please, another one
for each of my friends. They're on me tonight. The drinks I mean, you sillies,
the drinks!
MISS BARBARA
A Nightingale Sang . . .
Darlings, Darlings. I must tell you the most remarkable thing. Last night
I went to the cinema - the Maryhill Gaumont to be precise. 5d a seat and
1d for sweeties. Rather jolly when you can't afford the Odeon. We saw a
new film out of Trent - Dracula with Bela Lugosi, which was pretty
chilling, I can tell you.
But that isn't what I want to tell you about. We saw lovely
young Queen Elspeth on a visit to the Dark Continent in the news. But that
isn't what I want to tell you about either. In between those two things
(the Gaumont having a Full Supporting Programme) we saw a lovely Musical
Paintbox animation called A Fantasy on London. Oh, I don't know
if you know those Musical Paintbox films, made right here in Quirinelle
they evoke the Real World so poignantly that it is like being stabbed
in the heart by the loveliest golden dagger.
But just after our Editrix's cri de coeur (Oh, Editrix,
you must cri your coeur a touch more often. It makes you
seem so human) about if only London could come back into existence if only
for a day. Just after it for it was only an hour after I had read
it. An evocation of real London. How wonderful, how sweetly painful. But
then, listen, my pettes. In all the little houses in suburbia (in this
animated fantasy, I mean) a wireless set was turned on, and what began
playing? A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square! It did, it did,
it honestly, absolutely did! (colonial pettes please note, that is pronounced
bark-li,
not berk-li - just as "sergeant" is sar-gent, not ser-gent).
Well, gosh, a lump came into the swan-like blonde throat. And the orchestra
was Berkeley-ing away, bless their little hearts, when who should start
singing but Miss Vera Lynne herself. Now there are at least a dozen version
of this song, recorded by as many different artists - each version twice
as good as all the others put together. But of all the versions of all
the nightingales in that great big cockamamie Real World, they had to play
that one.
Darlings, I was prostrate. Can you imagine watching Dracula
after that?
ANNALINDE
Private Conversation
Pettes! It isn't often that we broadcast a private conversation to the
world. But here is a bit of Elektraspace chit-chat between two regularettes
that we thought y'all might like to hear:
Ah! What a week! What can I say? We are all whipped up to a
perfect feminine frenzy in the Cocktail Bar, like a rich sauce or a sugared
meringue! Such heights have never before been attained! Sacred fire, to
sear the sacred meatloaf in the sacred hearth! (In Amazonia, a girl has
to stalk her own sacred meatloaf, you know, and bring it down with a golden
arrow - but watch out for that bowstring alongside your right breast!).
No, all kidding aside and anyway, anywhere and anyhoo, (as you say), we
are all melting together into an universal feminine solvent, an aqua
regia, it seems, we girls are ratcheting ourselves up a notch or two
on the Old Triangle, lifting ourselves up by our bootstraps (or by our
stocking-tops, if you will), in a mass levitation. Don't you feel it? Pictures,
fleeming forays, four-foot Gibson fridges, music, lyrics, advice from married
blondes, Arcadian brooches, Ellhedrine cramming to get into Milchford,
(but in her cups and backsliding a bit)... why ... if we get any more racinated
than this, we won't be able to pull our feet up off the floor for all the
roots that have sprouted!
To which the second pette (let us call her pette 2) replied:
Here I woke up at 5:30, happy to have at least two hours before
anyone else gets up, ready to do some grading, but first, a note to ----.
And lookie here, such a lovely letter waiting for me! Even before reading
your missive, I knew I wanted to point out how very magical the Cocktail
Bar is, and lookie here, you've done just that, without saying the word
magical, but describing it precisely nonetheless. I have felt myself in
its power these last few days, thinking about what I should say next, remembering
what I'd recently heard. I think perhaps the Fairies have a very special
reason for the beehive frenzy, for there is at least one girl who is reaching
out in a very real way. You once said that Miss ---- gave
you back your mind and your happiness (I think those were your words).
Dear ----, there are many many girls out there whose minds
and happinesses are still locked away, and it is to those girls we give
ourselves, isn't it? Yes, it's lots of fun for us to write, but it's important
to keep in mind that more than just having fun as individual, atomized
pettes, we are working together to build something for the lost little
ones. That's why the blue pencil is important. Our editrix does
know better than you or I how to build that world because she has been
building it longer (though it is not her page, it is our page).
In the Pit, if an editor imposes his will
on a writer, a minor skirmish ensues because one ego is at odds with another.
But in Aristasia, our world built upon feminine principles, a cooperative
effort is more important than a competitive one.
The Urge to Settle
My pettes, my dears, my angels of femininity! How dear you all look to
me! How brilliant, how dizzying, is the sheen of satin and chrome. How
enchanting, transfixing, is the liquor of perfume and wine. How like a
goddess, the female form. I have been away a long, long time. A world-weary
and rather delicate Ramona here, pettes!
Barpette? A Mimosa, please. I know it's late, but I refuse to
let brunch end today. I have taken a position in an office. From such a
long time of being a quiet and happy house-frau, I am thrust into the world
of business. Such bustle, such fuss! I am capable and as hard-working as
I can be, but, really girls, my brunettish capabilities are taxed nearly
to an end! And I nearly decided to have an end to it just a few
days ago when I was dashing to catch the 'bus and my heel caught in the
sidewalk and over I went, pitched forward onto all fours in the early morning
rush at the corner of 79th and First! Well, all I can say, girls, is that
I'm awfully glad I wasn't caught without them! (Well, not them exactly,
of course, but awfully near!).
And as to getting things done at home! Why I've been putting such
a strain on my poor maid that I'm beginning to suspect I shall have to
increase her wages or lose her! I'm not sure that would be a completely
bad thing, mind you, she can be a trifle sloppy (just between us,
you understand), and the way her awful sensible rubber shoes go suck-suck-suck
against the floor is like to drive me out of my mind!
But I'm complaining. I'm so sorry, my dears, I do not mean to
darken your gentle brows with my nasty old grumpiness! It's just that the
end of the day has become so dull for me, without the beauty and comfort
of home as I once kept it. It's not ugly or dirty, mind you, only
rather lonely. Perhaps this is what sends the most determined brunette
bachelorpettes suddenly careening towards matrimony - the aching promise
of a round pair of arms and a sweet, yielding smile, kept safe in the house
in a blonde excess of satin and ribbons.... Or am I just being selfish?
Perhaps I am. But being in the presence of such beauty is bound I think
to make the even the most sophisticated of brunettes feel a little, well
- greedy.
Elektraspace has undergone an exciting renovation since I was
last here! Who can tell me who this delicious stockinged tennis-racketed
blonde is, over
in the nylons pages? The accompanying text says she is a 50's girl,
but might I detect a trace of Gibson in her? Either way, I don't think
I have ever seen such beauty!
Vowing never to be away so long again, I remain your,
RAMONA
Ramona! Welcome back! First Ellhedrine, now you. The
old place is looking like home again! We can't see anything selfish about
wanting to take a blonde under your wing in Holy Matters (as the Pippsies
call it). As for your maid, well perhaps you should redesign her uniform
to include less - well - sensible shoes. Yes she is a gorgeous blonde with
a tennis-racquet isn't she. "Do I detect a trace of Gibson in her" you
ask. Why, Holmes, that is remarkable. Only a true brunette can tell what
a blonde drinks just by looking at her.
Music Playing: Marychild's Dance Orchestra with Lovers' Lullabye
Dateline: 16 November 1951 Quirinelle Time
Lyrics for Barbi
One of these days, dearest Sweetipops, the Aphrodite Cocktail Bar will
have racinating music one can actually hear. Well, I suppose they could
have it right now, but it takes up a great deal of Elektraspace for just
a few bars. So, until the engineering pettes in Novaria work out all the
little bugs so we can have full concerts, we will have to go on hearing
the lovely music in our imaginations.
With that in mind, Dearest Barbi, close your eyes and imagine
you are in a supper club in Kadorian London with your brunette. Your tummy
is full of a good dinner, you are slightly flushed with the wine, the lights
go down even more, a blue spotlight comes on, slicing through the swirls
and eddies of fragrant cigarette smoke. To more than a ripple of polite
applause, slightly muffled by the gloves on so many feminine hands, Miss
Lynn comes on to the little stage, bows modestly, adjusts the microphone.
She seems terribly shy, with that bit of an overbite. Then she begins A
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and you are instantly overcome
by her power and magic. Her wonderfully soft, smooth, pure voice with its
perfect, cut-crystal diction caresses you, rocks you like a lullaby. The
song is almost unbearingly sweet, you want to hold every note so it will
not ever end. You close your eyes and you are transported.
But now, Barbi, you must open your eyes just enough to see the
words you are hearing in your imagination:
Introduction
When two lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell,
Songbirds sing, winter turns to spring
Every winding street in Mayfair falls beneath the spell
I know such enchantment can be
'Cause it happened one evening to me.
Lyric
That certain night, the night we met
There was magic abroad in the air
There were angels dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
I may be right, I may be wrong
But I'm perfectly willing to swear
That when you turned and smiled at me
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
The moon that lingered over London town
Poor puzzled moon, she wore a frown
How could she know we two were so in love
The whole darned world seemed upside down
The streets of town were paved with stars
It was such a romantic affair
And as we kissed and said good night
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
[Instrumental]
Our homeward step was just as light
As the tap dancing feet of Astaire
And like an echo far away
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
I know 'cause I was there
That night in Berkeley Square.
There! Wasn't that lovely? Racinating pictures and songs and music
and maggies and films all serve to settle a girl, bring down her center
of gravity, so to speak, make her stable, serene and content. She purrs.
I know I do.
MEHITABELLE,
purring
Purring. I am crying. I don't know how many of
you pettes can hear the music, but that song always affects me this way.
So sorry. We love Ladyton, but wouldn't it be wonderful if London
could come back into existence, just for a day?
Musings from Barbi
An anticipative Sweetipops here, my bubbling beauties! My illuminating,
illustrious Ithelia Elaluminhela, my goodness, and I do mean goodness,
please forgive me if I possibly mispronounced your name, but colonial tongues
such as mine, however delicate and sensitive otherwise, are at a distinct
disadvantage when presented with such potentially tongue-tying, amazing,
Amazonian appellations! The closest many of us (colonials, that is!) seem
to get to written words is when they appear in advertisements, and, even
then, someone usually reads it for us, so our eye-lip-tongue coordination
is sometimes impaired when we have to do it ourselves. But your tale of
the far East, where blondes rule, and no blood is ever shed, though
nearly unbelievable, fills my heart with love and my mind with wonder.
Nothing, it seems to me, could be more feminine than to do a maid's utmost
to protect and preserve the lives of animals and children, nearly insurmountable
tasks in the Pit, but, if a maid chooses
to be an ethical vegetarian, such as myself, she even avoids leather if
she can, a very hard thing to do, indeed; however, as the wise and sweet
sagette says, if it is old, perhaps it is a waste to leave it alone if
a pette feels that it makes her that much more beautiful than she already
is.
Since you found the article on the New Femininity enlightening,
my lovely Laura, be sure to look over the entire site. This place is a
tremendous treasure trove of feminine charm and philosophy. And, once I
set my delicate virtual feet, beautifully accented by my pretty peach,
high-heeled, ankle-strap sandals, my toenails perfectly polished, across
the threshold of the Cocktail Bar, well...I just couldn't forget the experience
and had to keep coming back again and again. Please stay, won't you? You
will be richly rewarded and your life may never be the same.
What happened in the supermarket, my marvelous Mousy? Could you
tell us, or must it be a secret? I have secrets, too, so, if you choose
to keep it to yourself, I will understand. I really will. As for a pette's
age, well, speaking for myself (a risky thing for me to do these days!),
I think that age, especially in Elektraspace, which, of course, is where
we are when we leave cyberspace and the Pit, that is...here...in this fantastic,
feminine atmosphere...well...if you're young at heart...and who isn't?...well...age
is something that we all have, don't we?...hmmmmm...maybe I should leave
the discussion about age for the sweet sagette or someone...anyone...else!
Thank you for your thoughts about petting parties, my darling
Diana. I am sure that you and the sagette are quite correct about them.
Mary, dear, do you intend to have a petting party soon? If you do, I have
a wonderful, adorable dog of my own that I would love to bring along.
And now, my delicate Diana, I am fashionably flattered that you
value my advice about what you might look the best in, which I'm not sure
I'm qualified to give, but I'll try, too, and, since I have never
been fleeming before, I would love to join you. But, tell me, do fleems
have dressing rooms? It might be very hard to tell how something looks
on your exquisite self unless I can see it on you. If not, I suppose that
I can use my imagination, but, I fear, my imagination sometimes gets out
of hand and, in your gorgeous, goddess-like (the resemblance is remarkable!)
presence, I might, recovering Pit-maiden that I am, find myself moved by
somewhat immodest thoughts in my efforts to dress your imaginatively unadorned
form in lovely, flowing fabrics and ravishing, red colors...like the color
that my cheeks must be right about now! Oh, dear...there I go again...I
hope that I'm not spoiling it, because I want so badly to go fleeming with
you! No matter what I might think...if I promise to keep it to myself...would
you still like me to come?
La! And brunettes think that their lives are so hard and complicated,
what with all the things that they are expected to do! Why, if only they
knew! A blonde's life isn't just lipstick and eye shadow...no, mistress...it's
also perfume, foundation, rouge, nail polish, hair spray, the perfect underwear,
the perfect outerwear, the perfect shoes, crossing her legs just
so, keeping her thoughts focused on her brunette companion's every word,
instead of...well...whatever innocent indelicacies might come into her
sweet, sensitive, sensuous mind...yes, indeed, it's more, much more,
than they realize!
Restrained and hopeful, I remain
Your Sweetipops,
BARBI
Shivers from Amazonia
Dearies,
I am all tingling right now, shivers going up my back and all,
and it's because of the things Miss Elaluminhela has said. See, even though
I live with my family in New Quirinelle, my heart belongs to Amazonia.
I have such longings to live there, where every word, every action, every
thought links Maid to Maid, to Dea, to the land, to Sacred Truth. My soul
yearns for each moment to be a physical playing out of a spiritual Truth.
Thinking about Amazonia helps me know that as I go about my daily duties
of preparing the food and keeping the house clean and tending to the little
one, I am doing something more spiritual than mundane. When I cook
dinner, for instance, I am using sacred fire to transform what the land
gives us into food my family will eat and then be nourished by.
AMY de CULVER (Mrs.)
Laura's Introduction
Hello ladies. Allow me to introduce myself, if I am not interrupting you.
My name is Laura, I've just passed 24, and am what one might call a brunette
(please excuse me if I spelt that incorrectly). Hmmm. Now that I've said
that I can't think of anything else to say.
LAURA
Well, golly, Laura, that seems enough to start with.
To be twenty-four is a species of genius, you know Can we get you a drink
on the house?
Music playing: Elenla Mirindi singing You and the Night and the Music
Dateline: 15 November 1951 Quirinelle Time
Ellhedrine and Pointed Furs
Why, Ellhedrine, of course you can snuggle your fluffy little self up to
me. But haven't you heard? Ariadne is in Culveria, living with lots of
other blondes and one over-worked brunette. I miss her too, as well as
that rough brunette, Janet. Those were the days, weren't they? I rather
like having your head rest against my shoulder, darling, so do keep it
there as long as you'd like. I think perhaps soon you'd better go back
home and sleep off this intoxicated state, though. I am quite certain your
brunette mommy won't be too pleased to find you so giggly. Or is that just
your blondness telling on you, and not the blonde bombshellness doing the
telling?
Anyway, anyhow, anywho (brunettes can be silly too you know!),
all this talk of furs reminds me of two, no three little stories I must
share with all of you girls. You already know the first one, Ellhedrine,
(goodness gracious! I think you are the one who told it to me),
so just close your eyes while I tell it. One of the founding girls once
was told that, really, most people don't think it is acceptable for women
to wear furs any more, and she replied, "Oh I do know, but I think
I'd probably still wear one even if that weren't the case!"
Then the second little story is from one fall, when I was teaching,
and my class read a lovely little novel by Miss Sarah Orne Jewett called,
The
Country of the Pointed Firs. Well, one of my students wrote a paper
about the country of the pointed furs. I imagine it was a place
of fox furs, the kind with the claws still in the fur. I thought how much
I'd love to go there on a cold winter day, just to see all the pettes in
their splendor.
The last isn't really a story, but a glimmer into the life of
an Aristasian in a little college town in Pit-america.
I giggle just about every day because all over town are these little signs,
instructing everyone everywhere to stop wearing fur. Well, I giggle because
in all my years in this little town, I've only known one person ever to
wear a fur...me. And all that fuss over little 'ole me? Well, a girl usually
has to do much bigger things in life to get so much attention!
Oh, I lied, for I have yet another story about furs. It's about
my first-ever real stole, given to me by , well, by some of you here tonight.
That evening at the Embassy, when you girls gave me such a perfect light
mink stole, wrapped it around my shoulders and watched me melt into its
softness and glamour, those tears you saw sparkling in my eyes, they were
pure tears of joy at the gift of femininity you gave me, not only with
the fur, but also with the Truth you've spoken in Elektraspace all these
months, the truth that the darkness can't completely obscure, the truth
that femininity is real and eternal and powerful and, well, gosh, worthy
of a little ermine or mink to help encourage it in a girl. And pettes,
you've never felt fully feminine until you've stood in Daisy Mae's shoes,
in your stockings and undies, and your mink coat, all melt-y like.
Well, I've had quite enough of my drink for the night. Usually
I can drink like a brunette, but tonight it's just about made a chatty
blonde out of me.
Love all,
MISS BARBARA
Fleeming
Hello Darlings All
Girlies, here I am back from a long day fleeming, to tell you
all about...fleeming. What's fleeming, you ask. Well, it is how Aristasians
make their homes sanctuaries from the Pit. And it is a whole lot of fun
to boot. And it's something just about everyone can do, I 'spose. In the
Pit fleems are called (whisper) "garage sales" and "boot sales" and "flea
markets." A fleem is any kind of sale where bongos sell used things. And
some of these used things are real things, and very often the silly
bongos don't even know the difference, so they'll sell something real
for pennies right next to something from the second
decade of darkness for dollars. The more you go fleeming for real things,
the more you can almost magically tell the real from the obsolete. My own
brunette is a whiz at it. She can walk into a fleem and in a moment pick
out the only thing on a table that was made before the Eclipse.
The reason for this is too diffie for a blonde like me to explain, so I
won't, but I think it has to do with archetypes and essential truths manifested
in the objects from a true civilization. What I do know is that the more
you learn about the real world, the more those real things begin to glow
when you find them at a fleem. And the more you can bring that glow into
your own home, the more you can build a sanctuary against the Pit.
I better put dinner on now. The family is sure to be hungry after
such a long day of treasure hunting. Oh, I almost forgot to say what we
found today. Three boxes of up-to-date stationery, three pairs of stockings
from Quirinelle (still in their wrappers, of course), two gorgeous Quirrie
serving bowls to match another one we had found years ago, and several
little Nativity gifts, but I can't tell you what they are because, well,
they are for some of you pettes who are here tonight!
Goodbye for now darlings. Lots of love,
AMY de CULVER
Another Pin-Up For Blondes
With all this chatter about blondes not having any thoughts at all and
Vixen Princesses and beauty and furs and hunting and petting parties and
kittens and panties-never-ever-being-lost-again and lyrics and leather,
there are, well, there are too many gol-durned words here, so this
blonde thinks another racinating image is called for. Balance is needed:
a thousand words need an image you know. The last one was of a blonde,
remember? Daisy Mae (my apartment-mate, in fact) in her undies and Mink,
and she's at the end of the line already, about to be shunted off into
a dim, drafty, dreary, drab and depressing (see, I can alliterate too!)
old archive.
So I have selected one of my favorites, guaranteed to make a Kadorie
blonde melt and then swoon: a Brunette in Uniform. Here is Maureen,
a W.A.C. Cadette I met last month at a U.S.O. club in Gotham, where I was
one of the faceless (but what great legs I've got!) blondes in the chorus
line. She bought me a champagne cocktail after the revue, took my phone
number, but her furlough was up the next day, she never called me (sob!)
MEHITABELLE
Shirley's Journey
Dear Pettes,
I know what Mrs. de Culver means when she talks about the magic
of real things. When I was very new, and feeling quite miserable because
so much of my life still had to be lived in the Pit
and I didn't have a proper sanctuary in my home, I would find relief from
the misery by looking at a little Arcadian pin I owned made out of amethyst,
in the shape of a shield. It was one of the few things I had that came
from the real world and I pinned it on to whatever coat I was wearing.
When I felt the poison of the Pit, I would pretend that I could shrink
down to the size of a Borrower and somehow step inside that little pin.
I felt comforted by the thought of this little pin shielding me from the
poison.
Thankfully, I have a lot more protection than just a tiny pin
these days. And I heartily agree with Amy that the more of a defense you
can build against the Pit, the happier you will be.
Love for now, and this place is lots of fun! Glad my friends told
me about it. Barmaid, mine's a Martini tonight. Sometimes blondes like
to see how the other side lives, you know.
SHIRLEY,
happily living in New Trent now.
Lyrics for Barbi
Dear blondie-Barbi was asking about up-to-date
song lyrics. Well, honey the world is just teeming with them. Where I live
the hard thing is to go anywhere without hearing them. I hear it's
a touch harder down the old Pit, but not
much. You can buy lovely up-to-date music in lots of Pit-shops on windies
(tape cassettes) or shinies (compound discs, or whatever they are called).
Many of us have machines that will play real records at 78 r.p.m., and
also bendies (long-playing Quirrie records - they bend, hence the name).
You'll probably want to look into these later as they look much
nicer in a real household, but just now,
start by looking about for a few windies or shinies, just to get your ear
in, as it were. You could look for assorted collections, or for some wonderful
artists, like Annette Hanshaw and Ruth Etting from Vintesse or Jessie Matthews
from Trent or Doris Day from Quirinelle. Or look for dance bands. You can
never go far wrong with an up-to-date dance-band.
Lots of love to all,
JULIA
And Mehitabelle writes:
I will be happy to share the names and numbers of the best
Kadorie shinies I have found, then she can have the words and the
music. If Barbi is in a city in the Pit-U.S., she will have little trouble
finding (or ordering) them. Please let her know.... if she is interested,
she may contact me directly (you may give her my address) or she may reach
me through you, likewise my reply, direct, or through you, as you and she
wish.
We won't publish the names and numbers here as they might sound a bit gratingly
bongo, but if Barbi or any other pette wishes to drop
a note to the Embassy, we'll be happy to forward Mehitabelle's information.
A rather sweet hello
Oh. My. What do I say?
I sent a little bitty "hello" about two weeks ago, but I fear
there are blonder blondes than me about (Tee hee - and who let THEM work
in the Aristasian Post Office?) And then my nail-varnish chipped and the
wireless started on some sweet little ditty and la! the thoughts just fled
out of my pretty curly-locked head so all I can think of now is the night
and the music and I've got to go and change so - Bye!
Toodles
MISS FOX
My dear Miss Fox, are you by any chance suggesting that
the Aristasian Post Office is not a model of efficiency? Well, all right.
Perhaps we had better not discuss that too deeply!
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