The WDA urged Clive towards an Angell Street bookstore to purchase ‘De divisione naturae’ a tome by John Scotus Eriugena that Clive needed.
Pim Comic Strip
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.
The Well-Dressed Albatross ordered another of his usual. Clive ordered a mineral water with a suggestion of lime.
On his way to meet the Well-Dressed Albatross for cocktails Clive stopped to converse with the bird perched on Glim’s welcome sign.
The Well Dressed Albatross came upon a tiki bar on the outskirts of town. There he wavered between entering Glim and remaining where he was.
Pim and Bim discovered their heretofore unknown ability to make Gim appear out of nowhere simply by rendering Gim in black paint on canvas.
On awakening one morning Pim and Bim discovered Clarice. On awakening the same morning Clarice discovered Pim and Bim.
Due to Mr. Love’s celebrity and tenure in Glim, all hotels were fully booked. So Clarice, and Pim and Bim, were on the outskirts, in tents.
And so they studied and drank their beverages and the sky darkened due to nightfall, or smog, it was hard to tell.
After class Pim and Bim went to Glim’s only diner for a chocolate milkshake. After class Clarice went to Glim’s only diner for a diet cola.
The zoo being closed, the animals were abandoned; an odd assortment sharing an unlikely environment.
