The next morning the nuns discovered Slim with Ukifune and guessed that Slim was a demon spawned by dark powers lurking within the new Anchoress. So they excommunicated Ukifune (though not before purchasing a hefty order of cookies, to appease what evil spirits might be.)
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How I came to write Pim
People often ask how I came to write Pim. It seems like a thousand years since I discovered Pim, or that Pim
discovered me. Thankfully I kept detailed notes and saved photos from that time. While I can’t swear to the
absolute accuracy of what you are about to read, I have done my best to capture the essence of how Pim entered my life.
Grown tired of the luxury Polanco penthouse, Slim left Mexico City to wander the earth and stir up what trouble he could. That night, after Pim and Bim had left Ukifune for the comfort of another hotel, Slim slid into her cell.
The nuns deemed Ukifune an Anchoress and ordered that masons seal her in a cell with a single narrow aperture through which sustenance might be delivered and waste disposed of. In this new habitat Pim and Bim discovered her.
Tired of backgammon and thrilled that they’d each won exactly $65,537 and that no money needed to change hands, Pim and Bim departed Uz and passed the same Cathedral that Ukifune had been absorbed into hours earlier.
On her way to the town of Uz, Ukifune came upon a cathedral from whose environs emerged a flap of nuns—veiled, whimpled and discalced.
Once, in Iceland, the Well-Dressed Albatross had perceived Mr. Love’s son moving to and fro in the far distance like an exile from a forgotten saga.
Pursuing a career as a competitive tap dancer, Lilith had left Mr. Love Junior in the care of Mr. Love Senior, who neglected their son into the shadowlands of adulthood. Fully grown, Mr. Love Jr. remained smaller than Ukifune, though the two had never met.
Whenever life became overcomplicated Mr. Love would think back to a September of his youth spent with Uncle Schoeck on Lake Geneva, and the day Uncle Schoeck was so proud of his nephew that he rewarded Mr. Love with Zurchergeschnetzeltes at a local Gasthaus.
It It was indeed Mrs. Love who had called her son. And she was with Mr. Love’s ex-wife (whose existence had been unknown to Mrs. Love until earlier this evening when Lilith—for that was her name—had dropped by with foie gras, grilled fava beans, and a nice Chianti.)
Pim and Bim found their hotel room stocked with board games. They chose to play backgammon and each sibling won an equal number of matches.
