Mr. Love had taken to lurking in the vicinity of Clarice’s house, after dark.
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 Finest left the WDA who conversed happily without them. Returning as they’d come they smeared Clive’s graph of the Kolakoski sequence.
Clive’s solution: a compromise. He would make a circular representation of the Kolakoski sequence and continue with his assignment.
Seeing the Well Dressed Albatross relaxing with three policemen on the horizon, Clive fell into a quandary.
Imagine their surprise when, an hour later and a kilometre further toward the horizon, they indeed met a bird in a dark suit.
And so by the time they came upon Gim they had few expectations. Fewer still when interview was done.
Though much longer, the Q. and A. with Slim gave them information whose utility was exactly equal to that provided by Pim and Bim.
With little to go on in their search for Clive, The Finest were compelled to interrogate everyone they happened upon.
Hearing through the grapevine that his intellect was in demand, Clive visited Clarice’s office mere moments after the police had left.
The governing authorities wanted Clive because he was the only living creature able to decode the cataloging system of the archive.
